The son of late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia told Fox News on Sunday that his father wouldn't have been shocked by the partisan conflagration surrounding the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, owing to what he called the improperly outsized power of the Supreme Court in modern life. "By trying to short-circuit that process, the Supreme Court caused more damage and, as a result, Supreme Court nominations and confirmation battles have become more heated, because justices have taken on the role that properly belongs to legislators." "It's really not all that rare for justices to get angry," Scalia said, referencing sometimes-heated dissents in hot-button cases. "It's true that [judge] Kavanaugh was perhaps more aggressive, but that's because the circumstances were a lot different. Kavanaugh on Thursday received the approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee, by a party-line 11-10 vote, to advance to a full Senate floor vote.

Source: Fox News September 30, 2018 13:39 UTC