The Comedy, Once Again, Writes Itself Or...Quack, Quack, Quack... From Fox News, so you know its Dick Cheney approved. Judges have become too much like politicians, with the unfortunate result that picking new ones has become needlessly partisan and time-consuming, Justice Antonin Scalia said Thursday. ... Good judges are honest lawyers who stick to the letter of the law or the Constitution, whatever their political philosophy, Scalia said. ... Scalia's address was apparently his first public speech since a U.S. marshal seized news reporters' tape recorders during a Scalia speech in Mississippi earlier this month.