16 November 2010

Supreme Court ZINGER!

regarding statutory interpretation:

“There are ways of determine how and what the legislature was thinking of … to determine what is the object of this law,” [Supreme Court Justice Stephen] Breyer said, The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports.

“The only thing you know for sure is the words of the statute,” [Justice Antonin] Scalia said. “I don’t at all look to what I think the legislature thought. I frankly don’t care what the legislature thought.”

“That’s the problem,” Breyer quipped.

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