Justice Scalia: 'I Have Religious Views...They Have Nothing to Do with My Job'

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has never passed up the opportunity in abortion cases to remind his colleagues that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision continues to divide America. In a 2000 dissenting opinion, he chided such centrist conservatives as Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy for earlier predicting a truce of sorts in the abortion wars."While I am in an I-told-you-so-mood," he wrote in Stenberg v. Carhart, "I must recall my bemusement ... at the ... expressed belief that Roe v. Wade had 'called the contending sides of the national controversy to end their national division' ... ...

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