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They showed the video on The Situation Room last night, it seemed very strange to me to see and hear a Supreme Court justice speaking like that and saying those things -"nino being nino" but that's not a private event, I don't know if he knew it was being videotaped.
I will post the whole transcript because it's contained in another transcript on cnn.com
"Scalia was pressured to recuse because he made strong remarks three weeks ago about detainees, but those comments at a Swiss law school were the tip of the iceberg from Scalia that day.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(voice-over): A Supreme Court justice unplugged, or as a friend says privately, Nino being Nino. Take this exchange about the Iraq war debate.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The president of the United States stands up and lies in front of the congress before going to war in Iraq.
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA, SUPREME COURT: You said that the president of the United States lied to the congress about Iraq. That is certainly not an established fact at all. It's a huge controversy about whether indeed he believed, as the intelligence service of every country in the world believed, that weapons of mass destruction were possessed by Iraq.
To come and state as a fact the president lied about it -- I mean if that's the body of fact on which you are basing your question, there's no use answering it.
TODD: At another point Justice Scalia talks about the Supreme Court's ruling that upheld the right to flag burning which he supported.
SCALIA: I don't like that result. If it were up to me and I were king, I would take scruffy, bearded, sandal-wearing idiots who go around burning the flag and put them in jail.
TODD: On a question about gay rights --
SCALIA: The question comes up, is there's a constitutional right to homosexual conduct. Not a hard question for me. It is absolutely clear that nobody ever thought when the Bill of Rights was adopted that it gave a right to homosexual conduct. Homosexual conduct was criminal for 200 years in every state. Easy question.
TODD: Later Scalia turns a leading question about the American justice system into a dig at the French.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have the impression that in America in some way, justice or not, if you are powerful enough, and if you have a good public relations operation, you can get away with whatever you do. This is a great problem. There are two problems.
SCALIA: Like using the budget of the French government to keep a mistress in Paris, which everybody knows about. There is not a scandal. The difference is in America there is a scandal. In Paris, hey.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TODD: For the sake of context, Justice Scalia considers himself a judicial originalist, one who tries to interpret the original intent of the Constitution's framers. A Supreme Court spokeswoman says neither the court nor Justice Scalia would have any comment on that event at the Swiss law school."
I will post the whole transcript because it's contained in another transcript on cnn.com
"Scalia was pressured to recuse because he made strong remarks three weeks ago about detainees, but those comments at a Swiss law school were the tip of the iceberg from Scalia that day.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(voice-over): A Supreme Court justice unplugged, or as a friend says privately, Nino being Nino. Take this exchange about the Iraq war debate.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The president of the United States stands up and lies in front of the congress before going to war in Iraq.
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA, SUPREME COURT: You said that the president of the United States lied to the congress about Iraq. That is certainly not an established fact at all. It's a huge controversy about whether indeed he believed, as the intelligence service of every country in the world believed, that weapons of mass destruction were possessed by Iraq.
To come and state as a fact the president lied about it -- I mean if that's the body of fact on which you are basing your question, there's no use answering it.
TODD: At another point Justice Scalia talks about the Supreme Court's ruling that upheld the right to flag burning which he supported.
SCALIA: I don't like that result. If it were up to me and I were king, I would take scruffy, bearded, sandal-wearing idiots who go around burning the flag and put them in jail.
TODD: On a question about gay rights --
SCALIA: The question comes up, is there's a constitutional right to homosexual conduct. Not a hard question for me. It is absolutely clear that nobody ever thought when the Bill of Rights was adopted that it gave a right to homosexual conduct. Homosexual conduct was criminal for 200 years in every state. Easy question.
TODD: Later Scalia turns a leading question about the American justice system into a dig at the French.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have the impression that in America in some way, justice or not, if you are powerful enough, and if you have a good public relations operation, you can get away with whatever you do. This is a great problem. There are two problems.
SCALIA: Like using the budget of the French government to keep a mistress in Paris, which everybody knows about. There is not a scandal. The difference is in America there is a scandal. In Paris, hey.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TODD: For the sake of context, Justice Scalia considers himself a judicial originalist, one who tries to interpret the original intent of the Constitution's framers. A Supreme Court spokeswoman says neither the court nor Justice Scalia would have any comment on that event at the Swiss law school."