Today in Supreme Court History: March 11, 1936

3/11/1936: Justice Antonin Scalia's birthday.

Justice Antonin Scalia

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[Queen Amalthea]

MS. WINFREE: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: Since 2009, when Maryland began to collect DNA samples from arrestees charged with violent crimes and burglary, there have been 225 matches, 75 prosecutions, and 42 convictions, including that of Respondent King.

JUSTICE SCALIA: Well, that's really good. I'll bet you, if you conducted a lot of unreasonable searches and seizures, you'd get more convictions, too.

(Laughter.)

JUSTICE SCALIA: That proves absolutely nothing.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2012/12-207-lp23.pdf

[Dilan Esper]

That case produced a damned good dissent by Scalia (joined by Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan), too:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/569/435/

[David Nieporent]

Yep. That one prompted a lot of comment fights over at the old VC. Scalia was right, and Kennedy was wrong. And of course the infuriating thing is that because it was Kennedy, he didn't even bother to address Scalia's arguments.

[BravoCharlieDelta]

Scalia was murdered.

The pillow over his head was the tell.

[Queen Amalthea]

You're a conspiracy nut.

Your nutty conspiracy theory is the tell.

[DaivdBehar]

Scalia proves the point. All Ivy indoctrinated lawyers are the same, no matter their political pronouncements. Scalia led the Democrat charge against mandatory sentencing guidelines after they dropped crime 40% and lawyer employment. He lived in the capital of rent seeking, and sought it as much as any leftist, big government enemy of our nation.

[Queen Amalthea]

Take your meds Davie, the bad lawyers won't touch you again!

[DaivdBehar]

Queenie. The little problem is that campaign first against federal guidelines, then after state guidelines is that they surged the murder of young black males in all Democrat jurisdictions. Scalia killed hundreds of additional males on top of the excess 4000 year, during the guidelines. Scalia was a mass murderer of young black males by his dumbass, irresponsible jihad against the guidelines. He killed more blacks than any KKK Imperial Wizard.

Judges owe their jobs to evil doers. They will coddle the criminal, protect the criminal, empower the criminal.

One benefit from the end of mandatory guidelines? Lawyer unemployment ended. In the days after crime dropped 40% across the board, many law grads could not find any job, not even low paid ones. That ended.

[Mr. Hook]

Ninja assassin Hillary Clinton murdered Scalia with Hunter Biden's laptop. Prove me wrong.

[BravoCharlieDelta]

Pillow biters sent a message with the pillow over his face

Truth… dot…. social

[bernard11]

Giant picture of a giant asshole.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Yes. I will spend all day trying to unsee it.

[Ed Grinberg]

The country misses you, Nino.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

The country has devoted more than a half-century to shaping progress against his wishes, and is positioned to do the same for decades to come. He fought ably, but for the lesser and losing side.

[Frank Drackman]

at least on Same Sex Marriage the same losing side as the former Evolver in Chief (pretty bad when Sleepy Joe Biden gets you to change your position on a fundamental ish-yew) Thats right, Barry Obama was the Candidate against SSM in 08" while that old Fogy John McCain was the enlightened one...

[Queen Amalthea]

Are you a moron or dishonest?

"Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, announced his support for the initiative, the California Marriage Protection Act, last month. "

[DaivdBehar]

Queenie, can you tell the class what your preferred pronoun is?

[Frank Drackman]

Hmm, pretty amazing, seeing as how Mr. McCain died in 2018....
But, hey, if you can change you Sex, you can hear the Dead!!!

[bernard11]

Speak for yourself, Ed.

[apedad]

Just did a search on Fox News and there's been nothing on Justice Scalia in 2022.

He's be OCE'd and will only been remembered/missed once a year on Prof. Blackman's neat, little Today in Supreme Court History: blogs.

[Frank Drackman]

yeah, his suck-sessor(emphasis on "suck") Merrick the Elephant Garland was so much better...

[Dilan Esper]

I recommend Prof. Marin Levy (a great follow on Twitter, by the way, because she has encyclopedic knowledge of judicial history) and her story of how she once tried to buy Justice Scalia a drink in Wyoming:

https://twitter.com/marinklevy/status/1502092192562696208