Mark Halperin
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Even he, thought of as this high-principled guy, was a politician in a robe who said, we're going to give the Republican the presidency.
And that's an equal protection argument that the voter in one county should be treated.
But that's something that traditionally a liberal justice would say.
Washington needs to tell Florida you're treating the voters of County A different than the voters of County B. Historically, that would not be a Scalia position.
court.
All right.
I'll never believe that Scalia did anything but vote politically as all the justices did.
Here's the question I wanted to ask him.
I was once at an event where he was taking questions and I
Raise my hand desperately.
I didn't get called on.
How would he answer this question?
Very big 10th Amendment guy, very deferential to state power, not a big supporter of gay rights as something that should be created by the courts.
If the state of Delaware wants to pass a law signed into law by the governor of Delaware that gay people can't ride on public buses, should the federal Supreme Court strike that law down?
How would he have answered that?
But based on how he ruled on other cases.
All right.
I wish I had been able to ask him.
In the little time we have left, I want to demonstrate two of your extraordinary talents.
One is mimicry.