Bizarro Law World

[I blame my all-over-the-place mood this morning for the answers that led to this result (via Mulhersinha):]

YOU ARE 28 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1332!

You are not a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure at
all: you're the statute that allows the federal
district courts to hear diversity of
citizenship actions! You were drafted with the
idea that an out-of-state party may be unduly
prejudiced by appearing in a foreign state.
People think that you're strange, and they try
to minimalize your effects by requiring an
amount in controversy and by being especially
strict on the requirements for diversity.
However, like that weird kid that nobody likes,
you always show up to the party. Section 1332
is bizarre enough, it is even more bizarre that
it provides an apt metaphor for your
personality.

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[Might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, eh?]

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[Later: This speech by Scalia really says it all:]

["Scalia advised his audience at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law that the Bill of Rights is not the most important feature of the Constitution. 'Every tin pan dictator has had a bill of rights,' he said. 'The Evil Empire had a bill of rights. It did not prevent centralization of power.'"]

[Dude. The constitution of the "Evil Empire" (gee, someone was a Reagan appointee, wasn't he?) had a Bill of Rights AND (inadequate) provisions for separation of powers. Yes, I know, the constitution talks about centralization (and that's how it ended up), but the base was supposed to have been the soviets and the people. The fact that the U.S.S.R. didn't follow those provisions was the result of oppression by a small, all-powerful elite. Sound familiar? And guess what, Ninny; when gay marriage is found to be mandated by the Constitution (and it had better be), it'll be because of the 14th Amendment, NOT the Bill of Rights. Is denigration of one part of the Constitution in favor of another really desirable in someone very likely to be the next Chief Justice?]

[(That may be the first time I've ever written "dude" unironically, by the way.)]