Justice Scalia in Rare TV Interview: I’m Not Feuding With John Roberts Over Obamacare
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Madeleine Morgenstern
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Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview he's not feuding with Chief Justice John Roberts over the health care ruling.
Justice Antonin Scalia is not feuding with Chief Justice John Roberts, despite finding himself on the losing end of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health care law.
In a rare television interview broadcast Wednesday on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” the 76-year-old justice said there’s no truth to recent reports indicating relationships on the court have become strained in the wake of the decision.
“You should not believe what you read about the court in the newspapers,” Scalia said. “Because the information has either been made up or given to the newspapers by somebody who is violating a confidence, which means that person is not reliable.”
Asked whether he has had a “falling out” with Roberts — who joined the liberal wing of the court to uphold the law — Scalia said no.
“No, I haven’t had a falling out with Justice Roberts,” he said.
“Loud words exchanged, slamming of doors?” Morgan pressed.
“No, no, nothing like that,” Scalia replied.
Scalia insisted relationships among justices are cordial and professional: “There are clashes on legal questions but not personally.”
Scalia also defended the 2-year-old decision known as Citizens United, the landmark ruling lifting restrictions on corporate and union campaign spending.
“I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better,” Scalia said. “That’s what the First Amendment is all about. So long as the people know where the speech is coming from.”
The justice said the decision that provides the “most waves of disagreement” is the one that decided the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Scalia said his message to those upset by the outcome of Bush v. Gore is “get over it.”
“The only question in Bush v. Gore was whether the presidency would be decided by the Florida Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court,” he said. “It was the only question and it’s not a hard one.”
He said he has no regrets about the court’s decision.
“No regrets at all,” Scalia said. “Especially because it’s clear that the thing would have ended up the same way anyway. The press did extensive research into what would have happened if Al Gore wanted done had been done, county by county, and he would have lost anyway.”
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Comments (58)
oldsoldier10
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 7:30amJon Roberts aka Jane Fonda traitor of the people, destorter of the Constitution!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:52am“So long as the people know where the speech is coming from.” So this would seem to indicate Scalia believes there should be full disclosure for all political donations. Including SuperPacs.
Report Post »centenium
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:03amLet’s look at what he really did with his decision.
He told the federal government that they could not force citizens to buy products so that they could regulate it. (+1 in the conservative column)
He told the states they could opt out of the expansion of medicare (how Obamacare gets paid for) (+1 in the conservative column)
He told the federal government that they could not with hold current medicare payments from states that opted out of medicare expansion (+2 in the conservative column [1 for states rights and 1 for limiting federal government])
He made the mandate a tax which pissed off every conservative and opponent to Obamacare. Who now will become motivated to vote for fiscal conservatives and clean out the senate and house and possibly the white house giving us a conservative government for the next 4 years (+3 in the conservative column)
He did this with the blessing of liberals (while not a + in the conservative column it is kind of a gotcha for later debates)
Call him a traitor all you want but your vision seems to be a bit narrowly focused. Do what Roberts really wants and vote conservative in every and all elections. You are in control of your future…just accept that fact.
Report Post »black9897
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:27amNothing to see here. Just another criminal in a black robe.
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 7:20amJohn Roberts = P0S SPIT!
Report Post »De minimus
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:29amPOS, Traitor.
Report Post »Ch
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:57amRoberts should resign because, he decided to “made a bill-WORK.” Shame will follow him throughout his life.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 6:49amRoberts certainly did something stupid and I don’t know why. But, at the moment I would prefer he remain rather than face anybody who 0bama will nominate.
Report Post »Ch
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:55amWe need another Scalia, Thomas and Alito.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:12amfunny how the liberals always push through ultr-liberals(ginsberg,sotomayor,etc),but when a republican has to pick a justice the left always clamors for moderate(liberal) justice and like the good follower the republicans are in congress are more than willing to compromise,but never the dems funny huh?not really disgusting if you ask me…………….
Report Post »toomuchgovt
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:46amJustice Scalia is one of the great ones. I’ve read many of his opinions and I always agree. My biggest fear in this election is the same as last election, the potus may get more appointees to the scotus. Americans have always been held together by our Laws, now the courts are becoming a source of anger and division. When Americans stop trusting the laws and courts, we are truly doomed. We have already lost trust in the law makers.
Report Post »Linny
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:42amWealthy man, Roberts. I don’t think he cares what happens to the masses. Robert’s can afford the best health care YOur Tax dollars will supply, while the masses will be steered thru the passages to death.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:41am“…not feuding with Roberts-”– WELL DAMN IT, HE SHOULD BE!
WE THE PEOPLE were sold out and now there will be misery for the masses once OWEbama completes his decimation of the economy and raises taxes to gaurantee that we have even less.
Report Post »stotlaat
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:03amWhy would anyone argue with a sellout? It’s done. Of course they don’t go there. Nothing to be gained.
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 7:32amjust quit breathing, you are going to die one day anywa, what’s to be gained by continuing to breath? Dope.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:36amI don’t believe what I read in the newspapers or what I hear and see on CNN, the (communist news network). I have my theory on the Obamacare ruling but will keep it to myself, bc it is just that , a theory. We will never know the truth and the only thing we can do now is do our best to undo what has been done. Romney 2012
Report Post »marksar
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:14amjohn roberts– a straight up american traitor. Supreme court is the last line of defense, now compromised. Get ready. bad times dead ahead.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:29amYup, your words are mine as well…get ready, get prepared— VERY bad time ahead!
Report Post »Jake Wilde
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:54amAn unconstitutional SCOTUS, POTUS, and congress. No one will look at waste at all and dems are playing chicken with the economy again. Can it get any worse? Why don‘t people realize they’re giving all funds away at an alarming rate to balance the world? Man I just can’t fathom how over 50% of the country is just flat out stupid or off their rocker.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:46amKeep shouting the same question everytime I see the polling results!
The more egregious OWEbama’s actions become the higher his polling results!
Report Post »brntout
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:32amPierced Morehand on the loose. Can you say loser?
Report Post »Gums
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:41amSeriously that guy is such a jackass. Talking to Piers is beneath the Scalia and the USC.
Report Post »Baja
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:30amI was hoping Antonin kicked little Johnny in the grapes as hard a could then said, “Excuse me.”
Report Post »Hmschoolnmama
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:18pmWow! That one made me laugh! Thanks!
Report Post »The_Pointy_End
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:25amPiers Morgan conducted one of the worse interviews I’ve seen in a long time. Wow….. I quit watching couldn’t stand his attacks and political views that were disguised as questions. Piers may not agree with Justice Scalia but Scalia is a Supreme Court Justice and his position is deserving of respect regardless of Piers’ opinions. People of profession (Piers is not) know this!
Report Post »loneindividual
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:22amDown with Roberts. Down with Scalia. SCORCHED EARTH.
This is utter bs
These men are not leaders I’m willing to follow. If anyone sat me down and tried to convince me I’d call them traitors. If they took offense, I’d draw my dirk and pick up my axe and tell them to walk away.
Everything is Personal. There is No Such Thing as Crazy. To Omit is not a lie unless it is intended to decieve. The Truth is in front of us. We are just blind.
Scalia and Roberts are progressives. Pick your friends. You don’t get to choose your enemies.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:39amThe old adage, better to pick your nose,than pick your friends nose. gubmint beware.
Report Post »Matt
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:06amAre you really calling Scalia a progressive? Scalia is THE MOST conservative supreme court justice currently serving.
Besides that, if you think that people should be at each others throats when they disagree politically. In other words, if you think personal fueds should start over political differences, and you think that people that dont behave that way are traitors, then all of the founding fathers with the exception of maybe two are traitors in your eyes.
Chill bro, this country was started on christlike principles. Christ does not support violenet conflict, not even against your enemies, except where it is in self defense. Love thine enemies as thyself.
Report Post »TLS
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:30amI am the first black president! even though. all the other programs are bankrupt think i will pass another one there is no way it will work or we can pay for it They are total idiots But i will be thought of as FDR wrong you are Jimmey Carter! They did nothing to cut cost.
Report Post »crusaderx9
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:43pmobama, reid, pelosi and the liberal supreme court justices loaded and pointed the gun at the head of American Liberty AND chief justice roberts pulled the trigger. American liberty officially ended with robert’s opinion and a government without limit was imposed on the American citizen…
Everything to do with American Liberty and unalienable rights of the American citizen endowed by their Creator is no longer protected by the Courts and therefore wholly at the whim and mercy of an oppressive executive branch and congress. Whatever is left that appears as a freedom or personal choice for the American citizen is just something that congress and the executive branches have yet to regulate or mandate – and apparently as long as it compels the citizen under threat of penalty/tax it will pass constitutional muster (as a penalty/tax mechanically ends the argument as to its constitutionality).
The limited government demanded by the United States Constitution has now been disregarded and it can no longer protect the citizen from those in power who are so corrupt that they openly disregard the law. Public servants are now the masters as citizens are relegated to servants whose private property can be redistributed at the will of the government without limit.
Scalia and others who resisted were to be commended, however, now that they have given to cordial acceptance of the end of American Liberty – their profound betrayal of the American Citizen makes them all unfit to serve.
Report Post »loneindividual
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:25amI hear you
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:38amYou just accurately described the dawn of the Obama Nation (communism). The Constitution has been trashed and can no longer protect us. The government now can do anything they want as long as it is enforced with a tax.
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:39pmWhy would Scalia go on this program, let alone this network? Are there any conservatives watching.
Report Post »Really people, it has all become a joke. These justices are told what to do, just like the senators and congressman and POTUS
ricckky
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:27pmShut up pig–you people are insignificant and have been for years—
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:52pmUhhhh….sure.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:25pm“I am not feuding with John Roberts. Feuding would imply that we are speaking, and that idiot is dead to me.” – Antonin Scalia after two beers
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:09amHe let’s Vito, Nunzio and Guido do the talking…
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:14pmi thought their job was to uphold the Constitution?
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:54pm@ Ms. MORGENSTERN
WE ARE ALL on the losing end of the Obammycare decision…save for a few Leftists…
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:25pmThe Left will lose worst in the end. They are the moochers, the non-producers. When the fruits of the work become apparent and all goods are reduced for everyone, it will be the ones that produce nothing that will suffer most. No matter what kind of society they try to build they will not be able to evade their just desserts.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:53pmi don’t get why anyone would want to be on morgans show, he is a idiot,commie loving,anti America,anti freedom left wing nut job, he is just like the other stupid liberal george soros paid hacks,just making sh*t up and when he is proven wrong,he just keeps on making it up, i can not believe anyone watches him at all,but there must be some nut jobs who do because he is still on the air.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:39amFake accent too. “man” without a country, I say.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:52pmJustice Scalia, just lost major points with me (not that anyone cares) by going to the press and giving an interview where you whine about the press. You’re not as smart and principled as I thought you were, Associate Justice. Then again, the dumbing-down of the Judiciary HAS ramped-up to full-throttle in the past 4 years.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:40pmRead newspapers… ha! I use newspapers to start fires.
Report Post »TRILO
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:48pmor swat flies.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:56pmToilet paper and bed pan liners.
Bird cage liners.
Doggy toilet-trainers..
The LA Times is much more useful when put to practical applications, and so detrimental to the free and intelligent mind when read…
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:57pmand if this administration keeps up crazy notion that spending and debt and paying people to be lazy is the best way to save this great country, we will all be using newspaper to wipe our butts with,that is about all you read in them any way is sh*t
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