Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thinks it should be up to the states whether to make contraception illegal or not. Because, you know, the original words of the Constitution are totally immutable, and are the only ones to which we should pay attention.
Old Twelfth-century Tony – for some inexplicable reason – decided to further the dignity of the office by appearing on the Fox “News” network. The Justice spoke with Chris Wallace, who – as an aside – should be ashamed that by appearing on that network he’s shitting upon his father’s journalistic legacy.
With the current Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood Specialties case in the headlines, Wallace asked Scalia about the Griswold v. Connecticut decision, where in 1965 the court ruled that Connecticut could not make contraception illegal, because people have a “right to marital privacy.”
“What about the right to privacy that the court found in 1965?” asked Wallace.
Scalia’s forked tongue flicked. “There’s no right to privacy in the Constitution — no generalized right to privacy,” he said.
“Well, in the Griswold case, the court said there was,” Wallace argued.
“Yeah, it did,” Scalia said. “And that was wrong.” He continued to say the Constitution “simply doesn’t cover” contraceptives and abortion. Therefore it all should be up for vote.
The original Constitution allows slavery and preventing women from voting, too, you theocratic douchebag.
It makes a great deal of sense, though. Most of the Founders wanted to guarantee the rights of white property owners, but not women and blacks, because of course they were not people. Corporate bootlicker Scalia would apparently love it if the United States could go back to those good ole days.
The Supreme Court will lurch ahead 100 years when this dinosaur slithers away. I feel a bit sad for his descendants who are stuck with that name, but I look forward to when Scalia gets his rightful place on the same shitpile of history as those “Justices” who supported Jim Crow laws in the 20th century.
In the meantime, we will have to deal with the damage Antonin Scalia and his ilk have done to the country.