E.J. Dionne, Jr.: political partisan, Justice Antonin Scalia, has stepped off the curb, should resign

In his June 27th Washington Post column, E.J. Dionne, Jr. said that Scalia has lost the ability to even fake judicial impartiality and that it is time for the 76-year-old juror, who has spent 1/3 of his life on the Supreme Court, to kick rocks.

So often, Scalia has chosen to ignore the obligation of a Supreme Court justice to be, and appear to be, impartial. He’s turned “judicial restraint” into an oxymoronic phrase. But what he did last month, when the court announced its decision on the Arizona immigration law, should be the end of the line.

     Not content with issuing a fiery written dissent, Scalia offered a bench statement questioning President Barack Obama’s decision to allow some immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children to stay. Obama’s move had nothing to do with the case in question. Scalia just wanted you to know where he stood.