Unfit for the Supreme Court: Antonin Scalia

[Updated 12/10 at noon;  additions in italics] 

This seems to be the week to proclaim people unfit for high office.

First, the White House press secretary said that Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because of his plan to violate the Constitution to bar a religious group from entry.

Now we have Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at it again, proving his unfitness for the position he has held for close to 30 years.   I have long felt he was unfit because of:  (1) his obvious bias that he seems unaware of;   and (2) his failure to recuse himself on cases where he obviously should have done so.

But now, he has engaged in the same kind of bigoted stereotyping of a racial group that Trump has done for a religious group.   In oral arguments on a Texas case that puts affirmative action on the chopping block, Scalia said that it "does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas, where they do not do well, . . . as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school . . .  a slower-track school where they do well. . . . I don't think it stands to reason that it's a good thing for the University of Texas to admit as many blacks as possible.'

In the first part of the quote, Scalia paints all African-Americans with the broad brush of "unable to benefit from high quality education."   That is racism.  He could have said -- which is a little more reasonable -- that it is not necessarily helpful for someone to be enrolled in a school for which they lack the ability or preparation.   But why blanket "African-Americans"?

The second part is just a lie.   No one has even suggested that UT wants to "admit as many blacks as possible."   That is a deliberate distortion of affirmative action and cannot be dismissed as hyperbole.  Or at least it is beneath what we expect of a SCOTUS justice.

This is outrageous coming from any public official.   It is unthinkable coming from the senior, longest-serving member of the United States Supreme Court.  

Sign me on to the petition to impeach Antonin Scalia.   He does not belong on SCOTUS.
  
Ralph