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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWHEN are the rest of the Supremes going to ask for Scalia's resignation??
From his statements made in public in the last few years, it's beyond obvious that the man is suffering from dementia or Alzheimers.
It's a disgrace that they don't do so, since the man is becoming more and more incapable of making sensible judgements in matters of law and the constitution.
When he is making his decisions based on a t.v. series and calling them logical, it's time for him to go quietly and promptly.
Example of his reasoning which is opposite to the constitution he is supposed to protect and uphold:
"Perhaps, as Justice Scalia told a Swiss university audience earlier this month, it is indeed very facile for Americans to declare that torture is terrible. The justice posited to his listeners a classic ticking-time-bomb scenariothis one involving a person that you know for sure knows the location of a nuclear bomb that has been planted in Los Angeles and will kill millions of peopleand asked, You think its clear that you cannot use extreme measures to get that information out of that person?
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)I also believe that Scalia has been showing signs of senility for some time
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)he is simply a sociopath.
cheyanne
(733 posts)It discusses Scalia's claims to be an "originalist" and his inability to provide any "originalist" foundation for his decisions.
http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6105&context=law_lawreview
Re: his take on torture. The torture report seemed to miss out on the CIA's chance to come up with one instance in which they "know for sure" that someone has important info and that they obtained it by torture.
unblock
(52,317 posts)neither his views nor his "logic" has really changed. he's just less concerned with covering up the ugly truth.
this is fairly normal with getting older and with having more people around who think like you.