Scalia's Jokes Mask Reality Too Many of Our Leaders Shield Themselves From

Wendell Potter, CMD Fellow and former head of PR for CIGNASince Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia clearly isn't going to take the time to actually read the health care reform law before he decides whether or not it's constitutional, maybe he and a couple of his buddies on the High Court can catch a screening of "The Hunger Games", the movie about children battling each other to the death in a futuristic America, renamed Panem.

"You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?" Scalia asked during arguments on the constitutionality of the law last week. "Is this not totally unrealistic? That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?"

He joked that spending time to read the Affordable Care Act before the Court decides its fate would put him in danger of violating the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. LOL, Judge.

Lisa Graves at DC Rally Protesting "Stand Your Ground" Law, March 29, 2012

Lisa Graves, the Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, speaking at a rally in Washington, DC, on March 29, 2012, protesting the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) role in pushing "Stand Your Ground" or "Shoot First" laws in state legislatures across the country. (A big "thank you" to cameramen Lance Becker and Samuel Bathrick for the video.)

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