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A couple weeks ago, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a speech at the oldest synagogue in the US, claiming that the Holocaust was made possible by Nazi Germany's 'separation of church and state' and that 'Jews would be safer in a Christian state.'

Apparently there are no books on the Third Reich in Scalia's library -- if he has one. The Nazis declared that the church and state were merged in 1933 and appointed a Lutheran pastor the "Reich Bishop" of the German Protestant Church. Hitler's "Aryan race" was said to have been given the divine right to rule.

But lack of history aside, Scalia is a candidate to be the next Chief Justice -- the other frontrunner being that equally learned and erudite jurist, Clarence Thomas.