Tuesday, April 18, 2006
JUSTICE SCALIA HAS THE ATTENTION OF THE PRESS AGAIN
Justice Antonin Scalia is at it again.
"For Pete's sake, if you can't trust your Supreme Court justice more than that, get a life!" he said Wednesday, replying to an audience member at the University of Connecticut who asked about Scalia's refusal last year to sit out a case involving his hunting partner, Vice President Cheney.
Scalia had similar advice to a student in Switzerland who asked last month about the Supreme Court's ruling for George W. Bush during the 2000 election. "Oh, God. Get over it,"he said.
And, on March 27, he answered a Boston Herald reporter's question about criticism of his conservative religious beliefs by putting his fingertips under his chin and flipping them dismissively outward. "That's Sicilian," the high court's first Italian-American explained, triggering a controversy that would spill over to cable TV and prompt a testy letter to the editor of the Herald from Scalia himself.
One of the most conservative -and cerebral - of the nine justices, Scalia, 70, has never shied from verbal warfare.
But as he completes his second decade on the court, Scalia, often known by his nickname, Nino, seems less inhibited than ever, speaking frequently off the cuff, in a crowd-pleasing voice quite unlike that of the legal academy to which he once belonged.
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This report seems less of an attack, and more of a character study.
