based on that second link, that you don’t know how to spell " 'MURICA" for one and that it is meant as an insult/mock of right wingers for another. 
In a ruling by the Supreme Court today upholding a 2011 EPA rule that forces states to do something to mitigate pollution they create from coal processing plants getting into other states, Justice Sotomayor (among the majority) quoted the Bible, and Justice Scalia quoted … the Communist Manifesto.
I kid you not.
Breathing will be easier thanks to today’s Supreme Court decision upholding EPA authority
Local GOP Party Chair Compares Obama To Zebra-Donkey Hybrid Who Is All ‘A**’
The chairman of a local chapter of the Illinois Republican Party called President Barack Obama an "a*" and said if the media focused about the offspring of a zebra and a donkey there would be two “living creatures” getting plenty of attention that is partially white and partially black.
The joke (sic), by Winnebago County Republican Central Committee (WCRCC) chairman Jim Thompson, came in a regular newsletter sent out to supporters. It came at the end of the newsletter.*
It’s like they can’t help it! They have to KNOW by now that, even if they disagree with the premise, this kind of thing doesn’t fly anymore, and yet they just can’t STOP.
Great Debates thread here.
LOL
Here’s the opinion. 58 pp. in pdf. On the third page of his dissent, Scalia does say “EPA’s utterly fanciful ‘from each according to his ability’ construction sacrifices democratically adopted text to bureaucratically favored policy.” Is that what the story refers to?
I’m sure a large element of the Republican base still laps that stuff up. Some of them very MONEYED elements.
Yes, but Kos got it wrong on two counts: as Wikipedia explains, the slogan “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” was originated by French socialist Louis Blanc, not Marx. Marx later used and popularized it in Critique of the Gotha Program, not the Communist Manifesto.
I think BG’s main point is that Scalia wasn’t quoting Marx anyway. He was merely ascribing a semi-Marxist view to the EPA.
So it appears, but I didn’t read the whole dissent, there might be something else in there.
Right, just another childish tantrum from Scalia. That’s his legacy to the history of the Court.
Good thing since a new version was posted this morning. The old one was taken down because it relies on a 2001 case as the basis for the dissent. Only it gets the 2001 case completely wrong.
I suspect that one of Justice Scalia’s law clerks is in serious hot water right about now. That is a shame because working for the US Sup Ct is a big deal generally reserved for the best and brightest of thee or four prestige law schools. Someone career has just taken a nose dive.
If this was out of the Alabama Sup Ct I could understand it since the Chief Justice down there seem to hire exclusively from Liberty University law school.
Scalia is mailing it in harder than Joe Paterno did his last 10 years on the sidelines.
Retire already.
I’ll admit that I don’t know quite what a law clerk does, but shouldn’t the lion’s share of the blame for this gaffe go to Scalia himself?
IMHO, yes.
He is 78 . . . but, Ginsburg is 81, should she retire too?
Dunno, did she just make a closely reasoned legal argument based on a misremembering of her own ruling? It’s apparently not the years but the mileage.
In general I disapprove of, or at least am reluctant to revel in schadenfreude, if for no other reason that it’s really tempting fate, but this one is just delicious.