The notoriously media-wary Scalia just last month had a Boston man
tossed for heckling him at a speech at the American Enterprise
Institute in Washington.
In 2004, Scalia’s bodyguard confiscated a reporter’s digital recorder
and erased a talk the judge had just given to a school assembly.
The Justice Department later ruled the federal marshal had broken the
law.
In 1996, Scalia told a Baptist prayer breakfast that America was rife
with enemies of Christians.
In 2004, he ruffled feathers by duck hunting with Vice President *****
Cheney while the court was considering a case on Cheney’s energy task
force.
From The Boston Herald, 3/27/06:
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=132311
Judicial intemperance - Scalia flips message
By Laurel J. Sweet
Minutes after receiving the Eucharist at a special Mass for lawyers
and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia had a special blessing of his own for those who
question his impartiality when it comes to matters of church and
state.
"You know what I say to those people?" Scalia, 70, replied, making an
obscene gesture under his chin when asked by a Herald reporter if he
fends off a lot of flak for publicly celebrating his conservative
Roman Catholic beliefs.
"That’s Sicilian," the Italian jurist said, interpreting for the
"Sopranos" challenged.
"It’s none of their business," continued Scalia, who was the keynote
speaker at yesterday’s Catholic Lawyers’ Guild luncheon.
"This is my spiritual life. I shall lead it the way I like."
The conduct unbecoming a 20-year veteran of the country’s highest
court - and just feet from the Mother Church’s altar - was captured by
a photographer for the Archdiocese of Boston newspaper The Pilot,
whose publisher is newly minted Cardinal Sean O’Malley.
Although one of his sworn duties is to uphold the freedom of the
press, a jocular Scalia told the shutterbug, "Don’t publish that."
Red Mass in the South End was attended by some 600 parishioners,
including former state Senate President William Bulger, but O’Malley,
to Scalia’s regret, remained in Rome.
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