To the editor:
When it was time to end slavery, Scalia would have said, "No!"; when Social Security and Medicare were experiencing growing pains, he would killed both in their infancy; when a woman's right to vote was being debated, he would have argued that such a thing was not written into the Constitution; he would have upheld Jim Crow, citing states rights.
Scalia voted for fossil fuels and against climate science; for guns and against safety; for government intrusion into a woman's pregnancy; for billionaires pillaging our political process; for a price-gouging, benefit-denying healthcare system; for voter suppression; for George W. Bush.
Scalia's family, friends and colleagues will miss him. On the other hand, a society that values fairness, reason and progress will not miss him on the court.
Eugene Sison, San Dimas
Note from KBJ: This letter is a perfect storm of ignorance, stupidity, and malice. The irony is that Justice Scalia, whom the writer presumes to condemn, was the opposite of these things: knowledgeable, intelligent, and, in keeping with his Catholic faith, charitable.
