Justice Scalia calls defenders of warrantless wiretapping "Idiots"

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 18, 2006 - 3:58pm.
on Impeachable offenses

Quote of note:

"That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break."

"But you would have to be an idiot to believe that," Scalia said.
...and FISA isn't even THAT old.

Scalia: People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are 'idiots'
By Jonathan Ewing
ASSOCIATED PRESS

6:58 a.m. February 14, 2006

PONCE, Puerto Rico – People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are “idiots,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.

In a speech Monday sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society, Scalia defended his long-held belief in sticking to the plain text of the Constitution “as it was originally written and intended.”

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