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Justice Antonin Scalia: Women's rights not protected by the Constitution

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)1/03/2011 4:08:49 pm PST

re: #9 Aceofwhat?

Ace, I know you like Scalia, but this is a strange place to be defending him.

Take this comment of his:

The only issue is whether it prohibits [sex discrimination]. It doesn’t. Nobody ever thought that that’s what it meant.

Obviously, the Supreme Court has repeatedly interpreted the 14th amendment to include sex discrimination, so his comment is, at the least, extremely bizarre.

Furthermore, Scalia is in no way a real originalist. He is perfectly happy to interpret the Constitution in light of changing times when it suits him.