Antonin Scalia
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Antonin Scalia works for the Supreme Court as a part time clothesdryer and full time right wing scold.
He almost exploded in his dissent when Lawrence v. Texas was decided in favor of sodomy and sex with animals.
Scalia is considered the foremost advocate of legal originalism, a doctrine that says that all legal decisions should be based on what the "originators" thought, despite the fact that they're all dead and we really can't ask them.
Clarence Thomas was thought to be under the control of Scalia, something akin to the way hardened lifers in prison will take tender young men under their wing as soon as they get off the bus. Today, however, Thomas has been seen staking out his own positions more often, often even loonier than Scalia's (though not always).
Oddly enough, he is also the only prominent conservative in U.S. politics today with a sense of humor—at the White House Press Club party entertained by Stephen Colbert (who was sweating bullets to power), Scalia was not only the only audience member laughing, but he joined in the fun with some "ethnic sign language" directed back at the podium.
If he was a real American, he would change his name to something more sensible, pronouncable, spellable, and pro-American (much as Andrew Schlafly should).
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- 60 Minutes interview (27 April 2008) where he says that torture is not cruel and unusual punishment because the suspects haven't been convicted of a crime yet.
