{"id":100,"date":"2008-02-12T01:15:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T06:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2008\/02\/12\/us-supreme-court-justice-scalia-c"},"modified":"2008-02-13T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T18:33:00","slug":"us-supreme-court-justice-scalia-comes-out-in-favor-of-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2008\/02\/12\/us-supreme-court-justice-scalia-comes-out-in-favor-of-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia Comes Out in Favor of Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Justice Antonin Scalia gave a radio interview in Britain in which he suggested that &#8220;smacking someone in the face&#8221; should be legally justified in certain cases.  Justice Scalia posed a hypothetical in which he claimed not allowing &#8220;so-called torture&#8221; would be &#8220;absurd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p>See the BBC report on the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7239748.stm\">here<\/a>.  Check out a trascript on IntLawGrrls <a href=\"http:\/\/intlawgrrls.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/justice-scalia-on-so-called-torture.html\">here<\/a>. The full audio is available <a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.bbc.co.uk\/podcasts\/radio4\/law\/law_20080212-1704.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Antonin Scalia gave a radio interview in Britain in which he suggested that &#8220;smacking someone in the face&#8221; should be legally justified in certain cases. Justice Scalia posed a hypothetical in which he claimed not allowing &#8220;so-called torture&#8221; would be &#8220;absurd.&#8221; See the BBC report on the interview here. Check out a trascript on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,1131,1141,2155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-international-law","category-torture","category-us-law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}