A couple of months ago, I suggested that Antonin Scalia's view of the Constitution allows you to torture people suspected of being terrorists -- but not people convicted of being terrorists. Jim Lakely, bless him, suggested that this only applied to foreign nationals who aren't protected by the Constitution -- so no worries, really.

The Washington Post reports this morning that Justice Antonin Scalia is getting chatty with the media to promote his new book. It waits until nearly the end of this story to drop this little gem:

Scalia's new book is about law rather than himself. Called "Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges," it was written with legal writing expert Bryan A. Garner.

Antonin Scalia scares me:

In the interview with the Law in Action programme on BBC Radio 4, he said it was "extraordinary" to assume that the ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" - the US Constitution's Eighth Amendment - also applied to "so-called" torture.

"To begin with the constitution... is referring to punishment for crime. And, for example, incarcerating someone indefinitely would certainly be cruel and unusual punishment for a crime."