Justice Scalia In Fender-Bender On Way To Court

WASHINGTON — U.S. Park Police ticketed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after a four-car fender-bender Tuesday along the George Washington Parkway. No one was injured in the accident, police said.

Scalia, 75, was driving his car to work at the time of the accident, court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said. He was on the bench when the court's morning session began about 10 a.m. EDT.

Police said Scalia was driving south on the parkway just before 9 a.m. when his car collided with a vehicle in front of him, triggering a chain reaction. The justice's car was towed from the scene.

Park Police Sgt. David Schlosser said Scalia received a ticket for following too closely, The Washington Post reported. The justice can pay the $70 fine and $20 special assessment or contest the ticket in court, Schlosser said.

Comments

[bigpunk]

06:34 PM on 03/30/2011

contest the ticket! take it all the way to the Supreme Court !

[JFD8]

01:55 PM on 03/30/2011

Scalia's a traffic offender
For hitting a motorist's fender
Twas an honest mistake
While applying the brake
On rights of the feminine gender.

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[thucy3]

10:09 AM on 03/30/2011

If he does contest the ticket, let's hope the attorney for the prosecution is the son-in-law of the judge ruling on the case. That would be some sweet ironic justice.

[Clevelandinwi]

09:46 AM on 03/30/2011

Were clarence and ginny with him?

[ThinkCreeps]

09:33 AM on 03/30/2011

A car? What sort of originalist is he?

Are there not perfectly good ponies and traps to be had in DC?

[DavidMG]

08:24 AM on 03/30/2011

I can't wail to see Scalia's original intent interpertation of the vehicle and traffic law. (VTL must be unconstitutional - there were no cars when the constitution was written.)

[normathumb]

08:20 AM on 03/30/2011

He was, no doubt, making a right turn.

[Billar]

06:34 AM on 03/30/2011

Scalia is a tool for the Koch brothers. He like his kindred are a blight on society.

[R U Sirius]

10:00 AM on 03/30/2011

True --and fanned.

[democrats for life]

03:25 AM on 03/30/2011

why did this make the news?

[FRANK-LLOYD-LEFT]

11:23 AM on 03/30/2011

its newsworthy because Scalia thinks his car is a corporation - and therefore a person.

[AnarChrist]

01:55 AM on 03/30/2011

Perhaps Justice Scalia wouldn't get into car accidents if he rode a horse, like the Founding Fathers intended.

[vonPinto]

07:25 AM on 03/30/2011

...and that horse MUST have TWO HEADS.

[bhu819]

01:31 AM on 03/30/2011

We need to get Obama re-elected, if only so that he may have a chance to turn the courts back to for the actual people instead of for corporate "persons".

[Onlygodknowswhy]

12:24 AM on 03/30/2011

How does it take ten years for this case.
Was talking tl wal mart employees.
And most of the women supervisors were hired in the last ten years.
How funny the lawsuit worked.
If they lose the suit they still won.

[thoreau101]

12:04 AM on 03/30/2011

"The justice can pay the $70 fine and $20 special assessment or contest the ticket in court, Schlosser said."

Or he can do what he has always done: ignore the law, then invent a fatuous justification for being a egomaniac.

[Shaun Hensley]

12:00 AM on 03/30/2011

He's getting to be that age where we should make him get his eyes checked every year in order to keep his license

[jeremyfive]

11:21 PM on 03/29/2011

Antonin Scalia has never exercised good judgement, whether in a car or out.

[Drew Sargent]

01:47 AM on 03/30/2011

But you'll have to agree, he should exercise. Why he's put on 40 lbs. in the last five hears.

[Jim bob]

10:23 AM on 03/30/2011

Yeah, with those tough hours he could spend a LOT of time at the gym.

[Jim bob]

12:23 PM on 03/30/2011

Do you seriously think I'm coming to his defense? I think you're a little defensive yourself. "Tough hours" 10 a.m.?