A remarkable moment took place Monday night, as a sitting justice of the Supreme Court of the United States expressed her fantasy of taking a baseball bat to Justice Scalia during sessions on the bench, if only one had been handy.  Josh Verges of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, who broke the story, presents it as a warm-hearted anecdote, prefacing it carefully, before delivering the bombshell, itself quoted indirectly: Speaking fondly of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who spoke at the U last year, Sotomayor said his death in February was like losing a family member, even though they’d spar on the job. “There are things he’s said on the bench where if I had a baseball bat, I might have used it,” she said. Nevertheless, it offers a troubling glimpse inside the mind of a justice.  Who has such violent fantasies?  And who on Earth would admit to it in public? I suppose it would be politically incorrect to infer that her ethnic...(Read Full Post)