By Patrick J. Buchanan – February 8, 2002

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia certainly set the cat down among the pigeons the other day at his alma mater Georgetown University. Challenging the views of the pope and the U.S. bishops, the justice urged any Catholic judge who could not in conscience impose a death sentence to get off the bench.

“[T]he choice for the judge who believes the death penalty to be immoral,” said Scalia, “is resignation, rather than simply ignoring duly enacted constitutional laws and sabotaging the death penalty.”