Judicial Branch Quote of the Day

Slate's Dahlia Lithwick points out that Supreme Court justices get away with saying stuff that folks in the other branches of government would be vilified for. Her case in point is from yesterday's oral argument at the court on a case involving Reymundo Toledo-Flores, who has already been deported to Mexico after being convicted of drug possession. His lawyer argues that doesn't make his case moot, because Toledo-Flores is still technically serving the probationary part of his sentence -- meaning, among other things, that he's not supposed to use alcohol. Whereupon Justice Antonin Scalia hits him with this zinger:

Nobody thinks your client is really, you know, abstaining from tequila down in Mexico because he is on supervised release in the United States.