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Scalia on "60 Minutes."

Jeralyn aptly identifies the highlights:

• torture is not punishment when you are trying to get information out of someone
• Fetuses are not persons within the meaning of the Equal Protection Clause. Persons means people who can walk around. Pregnant women shouldn't be counted twice.
• He has 9 kids and 28 grandkids. He was an only child. Why? They practiced their version of "Vatican Roulette."

And then there was the part where Leslie Stahl tried to ambush him with evidence that he suffered from depression in the mid-90s, and he managed to reduce it to mere concern that he was repeating himself. He feels better now, he noted.

ADDED: Here are the transcript and the video ? part 1 and part 2 ? thanks to How Appealing.

Full post as published by Althouse on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).