Justice Scalia Warns
that SCOTUS Majority Worse than the 1776 Brits
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 4 Jul 2015
In his scintillating and sometimes raucous dissent from
last month’s horrendous same-sex marriage decision
in Obergefell vs. Hodges, Justice Antonin Scalia warned
a pre-Fourth of July nation that what the Court’s majority had done to them was
worse than anything the British perpetrated prior to the Revolutionary War.
In his brief history lesson, Scalia underscored the gravity
of the Court’s action by comparing it to England’s treatment of the American
colonies that ignited the movement for American independence. The justice said
that in its hubris, the majority decision
had carried out a more serious offense than the one that sparked the Boston Tea
Party and later the American Revolution itself.
Indeed, wrote Scalia, “to allow the policy question of
same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly
unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental
than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without
representation.”
The citizens living in the 13 original American colonies,
in fact, had no direct representatives in the British parliament, and therefore
could not vote on how they would be taxed or who would represent them. When the
British began abusing this already precarious situation, the colonists
rebelled. In 1773, the Sons of Liberty boarded ships of the East India Tea
Company and proceeded to dump the entire shipment of tea into Boston Harbor, an
event that escalated into the war of independence.
When the Supreme Court ceases
acting like a judicial body and instead usurps the power to enact legislation,
as it did in its infamous June 26 ruling, it radically oversteps its mandate
and is worthy of nothing but scorn.
“The strikingly unrepresentative character of the body
voting on today’s social upheaval would be irrelevant if they were functioning
as judges,” Scalia continued. “But of course the Justices in today’s majority
are not voting on that basis.”
“Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320
million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the
Supreme Court,” he said.
The problem with independence and self-rule is that they are
always fragile, and if not defended, can just as easily be lost. Something to
ponder on the Fourth of July.
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Antonin
Scalia is a justice for the U.S.
Supreme Court, an honorary member at the Washington Golf and Country Club, an honorary member at the University Club of Washington DC, a
member of the Burning Tree Club, a usage
panel member at the American Heritage
Dictionary, and was a guest at the Koch
Industries annual conference.
Note: Anthony M. Kennedy
is an honorary member at the Washington
Golf and Country Club, an honorary member at the University Club of Washington DC, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice
for the U.S. Supreme Court.
George
H.W. Bush is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and a member of the Bohemian
Club.
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is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
Sonia Sotomayor
was a member of the Belizean Grove, is
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a member of the Belizean
Grove, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Jack
Valenti was a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
John
A. Boehner is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and the speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a usage panel member at the American Heritage Dictionary.
David
H. Koch is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the EVP for Koch Industries.
Koch Industries
is the sponsor for the Koch Industries
annual conference.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the International Rescue Committee.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), a member of the Bohemian Club, an overseer at the International Rescue Committee,
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International Rescue Committee, and supported
same-sex marriage in New York.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner at the ONE
Campaign.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
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Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
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William
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, a trustee at the Third
Way, and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Daniel
S. Loeb was a trustee at the Third
Way, and supported same-sex marriage
in New York.
Susan
McCue is a trustee at the Third Way,
and was the founding president & CEO for the ONE Campaign.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner at the ONE
Campaign.
Henry A. Kissinger is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a member of the Bohemian
Club, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank),
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
George
H.W. Bush is a member of the Bohemian
Club, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, Laura Bush’s father-in-law,
and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
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Antonin
Scalia is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, a justice for the U.S.
Supreme Court, an honorary member at the Washington Golf and Country Club, an honorary member at the University Club of Washington DCa usage
panel member at the American Heritage
Dictionary, and was a guest at the Koch
Industries annual conference.
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