"Scalia Dissents"

[fiefoe]

'...whether the power of a woman to abort her unborn child is a "liberty" in the absolute sense; or even whether it is a liberty of great importance to many women. Of course it is both. The issue is whether it is a liberty protected by the Constituion of the United States. '
The last sentence got me stutter a string of 'but's. From that point, it actually became easier to simply enjoy Scalia's fiery rhetoric, since I know where I'd beg to differ with him on abortion.

• ... which is why Lord Acton did not say "Power tends to purify."
• Today's opinion... is beyond human nature to leave unanswered.
  
• 'Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.' .. to come across this phrase in the joint opinion - which calls... to apply an "undue burden" standard as doubtful in application as it is unprincipled in origin - is really more than one should have to bear.
  
• Reason finds no refuge in this jurisprudence of confusion.
• This latter statement cannot possibly mean what it says. 
• ... to preserve some judicial foothold in this ill-gotten territory
• this ecstasy of a Supreme Court
• The Court... acquires a character of almost czarist arrogance...
• While I am in an I-told-you-so mood, I must recall...

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