Irony

“Domestic violence is an intolerable offense that legislatures may choose to combat through many means. But for that serious crime, as for others, abridging the constitutional rights of criminal defendants is not in the State’s arsenal.” — Justice Antonin Scalia, June 25, 2008 (emphasis mine).

(I realize I need to head off comments that misinterpret this. Why “irony”? Because Scalia seems perfectly happy to throw away constitutional rights in other situations.)