It's the Supreme Court Stupid

As if to remind us why Republicans cannot be trusted with any of the responsibilities concerning government, Antonin Scalia talks to the BBC:

Justice Scalia, speaking in an interview with “Law in Action,” a program on BBC Radio 4, said it would be “extraordinary” to assume that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment applied to “so-called” torture in the face of imminent threat. He said that the Constitution “is referring to punishment for crime.”
“And, for example, incarcerating someone indefinitely would certainly be cruel and unusual punishment for a crime,” he said.
But “is it really so easy,” he said, “to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the Constitution?”
“It would be absurd to say you couldn’t do that,” the justice said. “And once you acknowledge that, we’re into a different game. How close does the threat have to be? And how severe can the infliction of pain be?”

It is absolutely sickening that such a man can rise to the level of power that Scalia has with such a slime slick & predatory view of the laws he is sworn to uphold.