Morons on the Supreme Court

Its amusing how winger extremists on the Supreme Court are all "states rights, states rights!" until a state does something that goes against their ideological grain, then all of a sudden it's HAY YOU CAN'T DO THAT, GOVERNMENT OVERREACH, WAAAH!

My favorite bit is Scalia's justification:

Unlike depictions of "sexual conduct," Scalia said, there is no tradition in the United States of restricting children's access to depictions of violence, pointing out the violence in the original depiction of many popular children's fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella and Snow White.
Hansel and Gretel kill their captor by baking her in an oven, Cinderella's evil stepsisters have their eyes pecked out by doves and the evil queen in Snow White is forced to wear red hot slippers and dance until she is dead, Scalia said.
"Certainly the books we give children to read — or read to them when they are younger — contain no shortage of gore," Scalia added.

How is it possible for someone as highly educated as a supreme court justice to be so myopically pig ignorant they fail to discern the difference between an abstract literary depiction of an event, a graphic visual depiction of the same event or a graphic and participatory experience?

Let's take Hansel and Gretel, as Justice Scalia suggests.

Here is the prose, from Grimm's Fairy Tales:

The next morning Gretel had to get up early, hang up the kettle with water, and make a fire.

"First we are going to bake," said the old woman. "I have already made a fire in the oven and kneaded the dough."

She pushed poor Gretel outside to the oven, from which fiery flames were leaping. "Climb in," said the witch, "and see if it is hot enough to put the bread in yet." And when Gretel was inside, she intended to close the oven, and bake her, and eat her as well.

But Gretel saw what she had in mind, so she said, "I don't know how to do that. How can I get inside?"

"Stupid goose," said the old woman. The opening is big enough. See, I myself could get in." And she crawled up stuck her head into the oven.

Then Gretel gave her a shove, causing her to fall in. Then she closed the iron door and secured it with a bar. The old woman began to howl frightfully. But Gretel ran away, and the godless witch burned up miserably. Gretel ran straight to Hansel, unlocked his stall, and cried, "Hansel, we are saved. The old witch is dead."

Kinda scary, but abstract enough that I wouldn't worry much about reading it to Fuss. Also, note that this is an old, fairly direct translation- modernized versions of the canonical Grimm's stuff soft-pedal the violence and scares, like the Richard Scarry Little Red Riding Hood where Grandma leaps whole from the Wolf's mouth when the brave woodsman bonks the wolf on the head with his shovel and makes him run away into the trees.

Now, would I want him watching a movie of that scene, shot a realistic, representational manner, with perhaps a blackened crone hand scrabbling at the oven door while shrieking pitiably?
No.

And even less would I want him playing a photorealistic Hansel & Gretel's Deepwoods Massacre, with Fuss manipulating a game avatar to burn the witch alive.

This is the level of intellect of a Supreme Court justice?
I doubt it.

More likely it's just another example of ideology dictating logic rather than vice-versa.