Ok, he really only has the body of a porn star because his head was “shopped” onto an actual porn star. And he’s not happy about it. So unhappy, in fact, he figures that the First Amendment doesn’t stand in the way of criminalizing funny “shopped” pix.
WASHINGTON – A Georgia state lawmaker with an unconventional grasp of the First Amendment is backing a bill that would make lewd photoshopping a crime punishable by a $1,000 fine.
Could have been an interesting meeting, but Scalia once again skipped the State of the Union Address.
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia criticized the annual State of the Union ritual Tuesday night, calling the presidential speech something worth skipping because it is a "rather silly affair."
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Scalia, the Supreme Court's senior member and a Ronald Reagan appointee, noted that it's not uncommon for justices to skip the event. William Rehnquist often did not attend toward the end of his tenure as chief justice, he said, and former associate justice John Paul Stevens never showed up. Scalia confirmed he has not attended since 1997.
Opponents of the civil justice system have a great plan on how to deny victims their day in court. First, force victims into federal court. Second, make sure there are so many judicial vacancies that plaintiffs have months and year long delays.
Senate Democrats are at least working to fix the second prong of the plan:
Five federal judicial nominees got a nomination hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a sign that Democrats will continue to push aggressively to reduce the historically high number of vacancies on the federal bench.
. . . . "President Obama is the first president in decades who ended his first term with more vacancies than when it began, and the first since Woodrow Wilson to complete a full first term without having a nominee to the D.C. Circuit confirmed," Leahy said in prepared remarks.
