Talk about being out of touch with the mainstream

In Re Scalia the Outspoken v. Scalia the Reserved
By ADAM LIPTAK

PHILADELPHIA, April 29 — About 20 minutes into stock remarks in praise of the Constitution, Justice Antonin Scalia paused. "Everything I've said up to now," he told a hotel ballroom full of lawyers here on Thursday, "has been uncontroversial."

What followed was not.

In emphatic phrases punctuated by operatic gesticulation, he then launched into an attack on a series of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the last 40 years.

Posted by Prometheus 6 on May 3, 2004 - 7:39am :: Politics