Tuesday, August 20, 2013

SCALIA: COURT SHOULDN'T 'INVENT NEW MINORITIES'

08/20/13


BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court is making decisions that should be left to Congress or the people, from wiretapping to "inventing" new classes of minorities, Justice Antonin Scalia said Monday.
In an apparent reference to the court's recent decisions on gay marriage and benefits for same-sex couples, Scalia said it is not the function of the courts to create exceptions outside the Constitution unless a majority of people agree with them.

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