DNC
Chairman McAuliffe Statement on Justice Scalia’s Speech at the ISI
Democratic National Committee,
October 24, 2003
Immediate Release Contact: Debra DeShong/ Eric Stern
202-863-8148
Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, at a speech before the
ultra-conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia ridiculed the Court’s recent ruling in Lawrence v. Texas,
which struck down a Texas state law banning private, consensual sex between
adults of the same sex. Justice Scalia read from the court’s June ruling
using a mocking tone, and said that the decision ignores the Constitution in
favor of a modern, liberal sensibility.
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Terry
McAuliffe issued the following statement:
“President Bush has made it clear that Justice Scalia
will be the model for any future nominations to the Supreme Court that he will
get to make. Justice Scalia is also the author of a dissenting opinion which
not only vigorously disagreed with the notion that GLBT Americans should be
free from police intrusion into their bedrooms, but constituted a virulent
anti-GLBT rant.
“By mocking the court’s ruling, Justice Scalia is
showing that his intolerance also makes him unable to respectfully disagree
with his colleagues.
“The president elected in 2004 is very likely to
appoint as many as three or four Supreme Court Justices, and if that president
is George W. Bush, the recent decision overturning sodomy laws, as well as Roe
v. Wade, will likely be reversed.”
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