If Scalia is "invariably more protective of Privacy Rights from the government"

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If Scalia is "invariably more protective of Privacy Rights from the government" than the other Justices on the Court?

so says Lawrence Tribe. Is he wrong? What does it say about what you think you know about how the Supreme Court rules/works? Do you get your info mainly from political journalists, bloggers, hacks, celebrities, or do you seek out legal opinions?

You only have to go 10 minutes into the video (the transcript is terrible) to figure out what it is you think you know, and what it is you know. Although, Dante is NOT saying Tribe has the final say on all things legal and pertaining to the Court, Dante is saying, try and consider what Tribe is saying.

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Funny, how can Scalia be a strict constructionist if he sees privacy rights? He isn't a strict constructionist.

Strict constructionists as well as texualists like Justice Hugo Black have said there is NO right to privacy in the US Constitution. How can Scalia be more liberal on privacy rights than Black? Justice Black usually tried to stretch the understanding of the text to accommodate laws passed by the Legislature, but on the right to privacy he felt it just wasn't there. "The constitutional right of privacy is not found in the Constitution." - Justice Hugo Black
 
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If Scalia is "invariably more protective of Privacy Rights from the government" than the other Justices on the Court?

so says Lawrence Tribe. Is he wrong? What does it say about what you think you know about how the Supreme Court rules/works? Do you get your info mainly from political journalists, bloggers, hacks, celebrities, or do you seek out legal opinions?

You only have to go 10 minutes into the video (the transcript is terrible) to figure out what it is you think you know, and what it is you know. Although, Dante is NOT saying Tribe has the final say on all things legal and pertaining to the Court, Dante is saying, try and consider what Tribe is saying.

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Funny, how can Scalia be a strict constructionist if he sees privacy rights? He isn't a strict constructionist.

Strict constructionists as well as texualists like Justice Hugo Black have said there is NO right to privacy in the US Constitution. How can Scalia be more liberal on privacy rights than Black? Justice Black usually tried to stretch the understanding of the text to accommodate laws passed by the Legislature, but on the right to privacy he felt it just wasn't there. "The constitutional right of privacy is not found in the Constitution." - Justice Hugo Black
dear search and seizure is very similar to privacy. I don't see the problem here.
if you do why not tell us what the problem is?
 
If Scalia is "invariably more protective of Privacy Rights from the government" than the other Justices on the Court?

so says Lawrence Tribe. Is he wrong? What does it say about what you think you know about how the Supreme Court rules/works? Do you get your info mainly from political journalists, bloggers, hacks, celebrities, or do you seek out legal opinions?

You only have to go 10 minutes into the video (the transcript is terrible) to figure out what it is you think you know, and what it is you know. Although, Dante is NOT saying Tribe has the final say on all things legal and pertaining to the Court, Dante is saying try and consider what Tribe is saying.

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Funny, how can Scalia be a strict constructionist if he sees privacy rights? He isn't a strict constructionist.

Strict constructionists as well as texualists like Justice Hugo Black have said there is NO right to privacy in the US Constitution. How can Scalia be more liberal on privacy rights than Black? Justice Black usually tried to stretch the understanding of the text to accommodate laws passed by the Legislature, but on the right to privacy he felt it just wasn't there. "The constitutional right of privacy is not found in the Constitution." - Justice Hugo Black
Book TV Supreme Court Video C-SPAN.org

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ALIGNMENTS WHERE ONE OF THE LIBERALS LIKE BREYER OR SOTOMAYOR OR KAGAN JOINS WITH ROBERTS, KENNEDY, THOMAS AND ALITO TO CREATE A 5-4 ALIGNMENT ---

--- IN WHICH THE FOUR DISSENTERS ARE THE OTHER THREE LIBERALS PLUS SCALIA WHO IS INVARIABLY MORE PROTECTIVE OF PRIVACY RIGHTS FROM THE GOVERNMENT,

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AND IN THAT SENSE MORE LIBERAL THAN BREYER OR PRETTY MUCH ANY OTHER JUSTICE. YOU WOULDN'T WITH KNOW THAT FROM -- YOU WOULDN'T KNOW THAT FROM THE REPUTATION THAT SCALIA HAS NURTURED AS A RADICAL, UNCOMPROMISING CONSERVATIVE.
 
If Scalia is "invariably more protective of Privacy Rights from the government" than the other Justices on the Court?

so says Lawrence Tribe. Is he wrong? What does it say about what you think you know about how the Supreme Court rules/works? Do you get your info mainly from political journalists, bloggers, hacks, celebrities, or do you seek out legal opinions?

You only have to go 10 minutes into the video (the transcript is terrible) to figure out what it is you think you know, and what it is you know. Although, Dante is NOT saying Tribe has the final say on all things legal and pertaining to the Court, Dante is saying, try and consider what Tribe is saying.

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Funny, how can Scalia be a strict constructionist if he sees privacy rights? He isn't a strict constructionist.

Strict constructionists as well as textualists like Justice Hugo Black have said there is NO right to privacy in the US Constitution. How can Scalia be more liberal on privacy rights than Black? Justice Black usually tried to stretch the understanding of the text to accommodate laws passed by the Legislature, but on the right to privacy he felt it just wasn't there. "The constitutional right of privacy is not found in the Constitution." - Justice Hugo Black
dear search and seizure is very similar to privacy. I don't see the problem here.
if you do why not tell us what the problem is?

"Funny, how can Scalia be a strict constructionist if he sees privacy rights? He isn't a strict constructionist. ... Strict constructionists as well as textualists like Justice Hugo Black have said there is NO right to privacy in the US Constitution."​

It is said Justice Scalia is a textualist and not like Justice Thomas, a strict constructionist. Throughout the history of the Court leading textualists like Justice Black found NO RIGHT TO PRIVACY in the US Constitution.

Ahh, Justice Scalia has sated in public he believes there is NO right to privacy in the US Constitution:

Unprompted, the justice noted his opposition to reproductive rights, and it led to this exchange:

WALLACE: What about the right to privacy that the court found in known 1965?

SCALIA: There is no right to privacy. No generalized right to privacy.

WALLACE: Well, in the Griswold case, the court said there was.

SCALIA: Indeed it did, and that was – that was wrong.

Scalia rejects privacy rights MSNBC
 
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Conservatives have taken a dim view of the concept of a constitutional right to privacy since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion rights.

Scalia on privacy Blah blah blah garbage MSNBC

The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.

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"Relying on the history of the Fourth Amendment, Justice Scalia has become a frequent champion of broad Fourth Amendment protections — not only joining opinions by his more liberal colleagues, but also often writing powerful opinions in which they join," said Brianne Gorod, counsel for the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center. "Notably, in every non-unanimous Fourth Amendment case last Term, Justice Scalia sided with the defense."
Antonin Scalia Emerges As Fighter For Fourth Amendment Privacy Rights
 
If Scalia is "invariably more protective of Privacy Rights from the government" than the other Justices on the Court?

so says Lawrence Tribe. Is he wrong? What does it say about what you think you know about how the Supreme Court rules/works? Do you get your info mainly from political journalists, bloggers, hacks, celebrities, or do you seek out legal opinions?

You only have to go 10 minutes into the video (the transcript is terrible) to figure out what it is you think you know, and what it is you know. Although, Dante is NOT saying Tribe has the final say on all things legal and pertaining to the Court, Dante is saying, try and consider what Tribe is saying.

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Funny, how can Scalia be a strict constructionist if he sees privacy rights? He isn't a strict constructionist.

Strict constructionists as well as texualists like Justice Hugo Black have said there is NO right to privacy in the US Constitution. How can Scalia be more liberal on privacy rights than Black? Justice Black usually tried to stretch the understanding of the text to accommodate laws passed by the Legislature, but on the right to privacy he felt it just wasn't there. "The constitutional right of privacy is not found in the Constitution." - Justice Hugo Black

The good part starts at 2:40

 
"Funny, how can Scalia be a strict constructionist if he sees privacy rights?

very very very simple : search and seizure.

Do you understand now?​
EdwardBaiamonte
fail: you are describing a textualist and NOT a strict constructionist

and I believe Scalia believes there is a right to privacy in the US Constitution that has less to do with search and seizure that you are hung up on

Scalia himself has said he is NOT a strict constructionist. But maybe you know better than he?

Scalia has averred that he is "not a strict constructionist, and no-one ought to be"; he goes further, calling strict constructionism "a degraded form of textualism​
 
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