Justice Antonin Scalia needs to resign from the Supreme Court.
He’d have a lot of things to do. He’s a fine public speaker and
teacher. He’d be a heck of a columnist and blogger. But he really seems
to aspire to being a politician — and that’s the problem.
So often, Scalia has chosen to ignore the obligation of a Supreme
Court justice to be, and appear to be, impartial. He’s turned “judicial
restraint” into an oxymoronic phrase. But what he did this week, when
the court announced its decision on the Arizona immigration law, should be the end of the line.
Not content with issuing a fiery written dissent, Scalia offered a bench statement questioning
President Obama’s decision to allow some immigrants who were brought to
the United States illegally as children to stay. Obama’s move had
nothing to do with the case in question. Scalia just wanted you to know
where he stood.
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