Tom the Dancing Bug - Thursday October 3, 2019 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Enjoy this Classic Tom the Dancing Bug VINTAGE 2013 Every Thursday Panels from the annals of the Tom the Dancing Bug archive Check back every Friday for a fresh, brand new Tom the Dancing Bug! Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling JUDGE SCALIA This Week: "Legislative Soul Search!" Two-Fisted Tales of the Justice of Action -- NOT Activism! Judge Scalia arrives as the justices discuss a case - CRASH Justice #1: Maybe we should look at the history of how the law was passed... Justice #2: JUDGE SCALIA! Judge Scalia: Fool! Legislative history has no place in judicial review! We interpret the WORDS of the STATUTE! POW Justice #2: B-but we're deciding whether to strike down the Voting Rights Act! Judge Scalia: Ah, a "racial entitlement"? That's totally different! Justice #1: So we SHOULD review the debates and writings of Congress? Judge Scalia: More than THAT, you buffoon! The process has begun! The ethereal form of Judge Scalia leaves his body and goes on an excursion into the psychic dimension. He enters the very SOULS of those senators who voted 98-0 to renew the Voting Rights Act in 2006. Justice #3: He's BACK! Judge Scalia: We must strike down the Voting Rights Act! Congress only renewed it because they feared voter fallout if they opposed it! Justice #2: So the political process was tainted by POLITICS? Judge Scalia: Precisely! And THAT'S when the court must step in and right that wrong! THE END Judge Scalia on Judging: What is the Supreme Court's role if not to protect the minority? Of course, by 'minority,' I mean that minority of states with histories of voter suppression.

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