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Originally Posted by djtestudo
I actually had to double-check to make sure they weren't.
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I did too, actually.
Edit: Getting back...
Does anyone remember this? Before oral arguments started on
Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld, Scalia was quoted saying:
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Originally Posted by Scalia
Give me a break. If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield, and they were shooting at my son, and I'm not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean, it's crazy.
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Guess who voted dissented in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld? Yeah, Scalia. Isn't it odd how his statements before hearing the arguments echo his decision?
That's what I'm talking about. A justice chosen by a republican president and passed by a republican senate (99th congress, 53 republicans) happens to rule republican on basically every decision that's come before him.
I could do this for every presiding justice, be they liberal or conservative.