From 19th-Century View, Desegregation Is a Test

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/us/10bar.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=desegregation%20as%20test&st=cse

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Subject: re: From 19th-Century View, Desegregation Is a Test
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  Two years ago, in order to reach a result he likes in the Medellin case, justice Scalia found that the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution doesn't mean what it plainly says.   Any claim to originalism in light of this case is mere opportunism--the same opportunism that he claims to reject categorically.

Barry Levine