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To: koan who wrote (9638)	2/17/2012 8:05:45 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

The words below come from the type of men who used to whip the slaves. <<Comparison with Justice Scalia Thomas is most often compared to Justice Antonin Scalia, both support overturning Roe v. Wade, both reject the existence of a Negative Commerce Clause, both feel that the only restriction on how prisons treat inmates is what actually constitutes Cruel and Unusual Punishment under the Eighth Amendment, and both support strong sovereign immunity for states by virtue of the Eleventh Amendment. [3] Imposing Roe v. Wafe is closer to something that would come from the type of men who used to whip the slaves, than opposing it. Roe v Wade reduced the possible scope of government protection of human life. Other decisions, before the 13th amendment reduced the scope of government protection of individual liberty. As for the Negative Commerce Clause do you even know what it is? How is rejecting it like supporting slavery? What's the connection from Sovereign Immunity to slavery? It would be a stretch but I could see arguing that someone who was against the idea of cruel and unusual punishment being prohibited could be considered to be like the "men who used to whip the slaves", but as the quote above shows, both of them have no problem with the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.