Anton Scalia, Supreme Court (In)Justice

The recent Supreme Court decision affirming Indiana’s right to require its voters to buy burdensome government ID’s was a slap in the face of court precedent, going squarely against the spirit of prior voting rights decisions. It used to be that the Supreme Court protected citizens (in this case, the poor, mostly minorities) from those who wanted to shut them out of the polls (in this case, Republicans) and keep them from voting for the opposition (in this case, Democrats).

By contrast, the Supreme Court had no problem handing the Presidency to George Bush in 2000 on an election technicality, favoring his individual claim over those of the Florida election system and the majority of voters.

To summarize the court's positions:

In 2000, protect the individual from the state.
In 2008, protect the state from the individual.

When asked about this glaring and blatant contradiction, Justice Anton Scalia, in typically coarse and malicious fashion, said to the American public, “Get over it.”

What exactly does “get over it” mean?

In this case, he’s really saying, “We, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court, care less about the public and justice than about using our position to promote our own personal, conservative agendas, even if they subvert long-standing precedent, the constitution or the rights and liberties of individuals. Furthermore, my pride is so rigid and my ego so overweening and fragile that I cannot admit hypocrisy nor inconsistency even when it is as plain as the sun in the sky, especially because I'm smart enough to understand the futility of trying to justify the unjustifiable. So instead, I’ll shift the blame to you, the person asking the question, by saying 'get over it,' suggesting that the failing is not my lack of scruples nor dishonesty, but rather your inability to accept the injustice my toxic agenda helped foster.”

The next time you see a smirking, bloated man wearing a robe, sitting in a grand chair in a large courtroom, speaking in a condescending manner to the serfs that have come begging for a few crumbs of justice, it is likely Anton Scalia, the “Justice” who told us all, in his own snide way, to go screw ourselves.

- JT Compton

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