-> EC> No, he said exactly the opposite.  He said that torture is
-> illegal, EC> and he criticized those who try to stretch the
-> Constitution to cover EC> "everything that is hateful and odious."
-> If you don't understand that,

-> Wrong, Earl,,scalia is basically stating that a law supporting
-> torture would not be unconstitutional.

Of course it isn't unconstitutional.  What an amazingly absurd claim!
The laws against torture could only be unconstitutional if there were
some provision of the Constitution that granted a right to torture!
Have you ever seen anyone so insane as to make that claim?

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