SCOTUS and the 1st amendment

I've tried to chill out, really. But when the Supreme Court is in such disarray and so partisan, how can we stay silent?

Antonin Scalia has noted that religion is more important than law. Isn't this the point in time when you say, "Gee, my religious beliefs are so strong, I can no longer be an impartial judge of law"?

Apparently not.

“Our educational establishment these days, while so tolerant of and even insistent upon diversity in all other aspects of life, seems bent on eliminating diversity of moral judgment – particularly moral judgment based on religious views,” Scalia noted in a speech at Duquesne University.

“I hope this place will not yield – as some Catholic institutions have – to this politically correct insistence upon suppression of moral judgment, to this distorted view of what diversity in America means.”

Really, Mr. Supreme Court Justice? What does diversity in America mean? Equal rights for all citizens? The right to an education for all citizens? Religious freedom for all? Or is it that as long as the folks appearing before the Supreme Court believe the same as you, then they're diverse enough?

Never, to my knowledge, has the Supreme Court been so partisan and so obviously biased. And, gee, it was also my understanding, if I recall my elementary school education correctly, that the SCOTUS is supposed to be impartial and unbiased. Given that, you know, they're deciding law for generations to come.

Also showing suspect behavior is Clarence Thomas, who refuses to disclose or claim the six-figures a year earned by his wife at the hands of the Tea Party organization that she founded, or the gifts and donations he's received by companies and lobbyists with a direct interest in the outcome of cases before the court.

While it's lovely and all that Supreme Court justices are appointed for life, if they don't live up to the strict ethical standards required, there should be a mechanism for forcing their withdrawal from the court.

What's that you say? There is? Oh. Yes. Didn't we impeach that Clinton guy for getting a blow job? Imagine if he'd also actually done something, you know, illegal.

Scalia and Thomas should be forced to resign from the SCOTUS or be impeached.