The justice comes in for some harsh words from Maureen Dowd and David Broder today. The arguments and (in MoDo’s case) implied arguments don’t really rise to a level where refutation is required. But one of Dowd’s comments shows her sinking to a new level.

Writes Dowd, “Nino is too blinded by his own bloviation to notice that Americans are not as censorious as he is. They like the complicated national mosaic — that Dick Cheney has a gay daughter, that Jeb Bush has a Latina wife, that Clarence Thomas has a white wife. . . .” Excuse me? Justice Scalia is “censorious” about interracial marriage? Where did that come from?