Justice Scalia called the prospect "absurd".Yet few justices seemed comfortable with a bright-line rule against mobile-phone searches that had not been warranted by a judge.
The corruption case against him was an "absurd miscarriage of justice," he said.
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"Nothing in the court's opinion convinces me that … Congress intended these absurd results," said Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Instead of owning up to its grave responsibility in Ecuador, Chevron instead has spent millions of dollars creating what appeared to me a modern Kafkaesque drama in the courtroom, where suddenly the victims of Chevron's contamination in Ecuador have become the accused, and the polluter has become the victim; an absurd theatre where justice has been turned on its head.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions labeled these injunctions "absurd" and "simply unsustainable". Justice Clarence Thomas called them "legally and historically dubious," while Justice Neil Gorsuch mockingly referred to them as "cosmic injunctions". Scholars in leading law reviews have called for their demise.
Which explains why at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 9, he was sitting before a video camera with freshly dyed red hair, wearing a fake mustache, puffing a fake pipe and stroking a stuffed cat, sitting in an armchair next to a globe, a rubber duck, two pieces of white bread and a framed portrait of Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court justice — an absurd array of props mandated by the script.
Meanwhile, anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International UK described the closure of the case as "absurd" and argued that justice has not been served.
"We are treated," Mr. Christy wrote in The Mississippi Law Journal, "to the truly absurd spectacle of august justices and judges arguing over which unreliable dictionary and which unreliable dictionary definition should be deemed authoritative".
And yet it is an approach that three of the Court's justices considered "absurd" and "interpretive jiggery-pokery".
