Injustice Scalia

Raise your hand if you're an asshole.

A case before the Supreme Court involves a cross on public land; i.e. a memorial erected on the Mojave National Preserve to honor the war dead of World War I.

Now the transfer of the land to private ownership may make the case moot. Or maybe not. In any event, Justice Scalia has his head so far up his ass he's missing the point.

Scalia made plain his view of the case, strongly suggesting that he sees no problem with the cross at all. By contrast, lower federal courts did find a constitutional violation and were not persuaded that the land transfer fixed the problem.

"I don't think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead that that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion," Scalia said.

That he doesn't think that non-Christians might not appreciate a cross honoring war dead alarms me. I might expect this of an Ayatollah, but not an American Supreme Court Justice.