A Symbol of America's Misfortune : SCOTUS

It must be payback for bad karma that the US is now saddled with the current Supreme Court bench.
Read, gnash your teeth and weep.  To me, they doesn't sound any different from an Iranian Ayatollah issuing one of his inhuman fatwas, the same clever parsing of words and tortured logic.

Everything you need to know about Scalia 

is contained in the following exchange with Leslie Stahl in a 2009 60 minute interview:
If someone's in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and they are brutalized by a law enforcement person, if you listen to the expression 'cruel and unusual punishment,' doesn't that apply?" Stahl asks.

"No, No," Scalia replies.

"Cruel and unusual punishment?" Stahl asks.

"To the contrary," Scalia says. "Has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don't think so."

"Well, I think if you are in custody, and you have a policeman who's taken you into custody…," Stahl says.

"And you say he's punishing you?" Scalia asks.

"Sure," Stahl replies.

"What's he punishing you for? You punish somebody…," Scalia says.

"Well because he assumes you, one, either committed a crime…or that you know something that he wants to know," Stahl says.

"It's the latter. And when he's hurting you in order to get information from you…you don't say he's punishing you. What's he punishing you for? He's trying to extract…," Scalia says.

"Because he thinks you are a terrorist and he's going to beat the you-know-what out of you…," Stahl replies.

"Anyway, that's my view," Scalia says. "And it happens to be correct."

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPqjCM6e5oM

And after going a tirade about how the sovereignty of the State of Arizona is being violated by the POTUS, Scalia joins in overturning an opinion of the State of Montana's highest court without a hearing.