Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 27, 2016

Judge Scalia believed in a strict interpretation of the constitution…He believed that since the constitution is a contract between the people and the government, something like freedom of speech only applies when a person is talking to the government, not talking to other people. There is, in his opinion no inherent right to say anything they want to other citizens…If I said GM made shitty cars I could be sued for liable. He didn’t like the idea of a “Living Constitution”, Only what they thought when they wrote it should be considered, not what they would think now…By that logic, we have no freedom of television…We have freedom of the press, but that meant the printing press…The constitution says nothing about freedom of television….I know this sounds crazy, but that was his major argument. He said the constitution is a law and the meaning and intent of a law can only be changed by statute, the Supreme Court did not have a right to change the meaning even if it was the right thing to do….The only thing scarier is the fact he was in charge of all our lives when he was a Supreme Court justice…… ….