Unfortunately, on this subject Scalia threw any judicial objectivity and discretion to the wind. * * * *Many who support this will regret this soon enough. Then you have the legal wannabees here who ignore the dissenters on the SCOTUS.
read the dissent
Yes. Read the idiotic dissent.
Then read Justice Scalia's concurrence with the majority decision and witness him skewering the dishonesty expressed in the dissent.
Absolute nonsense.
What Justice Scalia did (something Justice Stevens was unwilling to do) was to give the words of the Constitution their intended and actual and literal meaning and effect.
There is nothing "unobjective" about fidelity to the actual words of the Constitutuion.
The dishonest dissent was shameful and Justice Scalia exposed it. Shame on Justice Stevens and the other three dissenters.
But Bravo for Justice Scalia.
"Congress shall make no law ..."
Nevertheless, Congress did make such a law.
The Court, quite properly, set that law aside.