When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suggested last week that allowing judges in a democracy to decide which minorities to protect could encourage pederasts and child molesters to seek constitutional protection, his remarks were offensive to some but old-hat to others.
“What about pederasts? What about child molesters?” Scalia asked rhetorically on Nov. 16 in a talk before first-year law students at Georgetown University Law Center. “Nobody loves them.” The Constitution, he said, offers specific protections to political and religious minorities under the First Amendment, but otherwise elected officials should make such determinations.
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