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JUSTICE SCALIA: My Decisions Are Sometimes 'Stupid And Even Cruel'

Aug 20, 2013, 22:54 IST

AP ImagesWhen Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke in Bozeman, Mont. earlier this week, he admitted his legal conclusions aren't always very nice, KXLH News reports.

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But Scalia told a group of Republican lawmakers he interprets the Constitution strictly regardless of the results.

"[Sometimes] I have to arrive at results that are stupid and even cruel," Scalia said.

If nine lawyers in a room discuss whether the Constitution allows abortion or sodomy, for example, the Constitution becomes an ever-evolving, even "living," document, Scalia said.

These decisions about social issues belong to Congress, the ultimate representation of the will of the people, according to Scalia.

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Scalia has made it very clear he thinks the Constitution is "dead, dead, dead."

Previously, Scalia wrote a dissent to uphold Texas' sodomy law because the Constitution didn't specifically give people the right to have gay sex.

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