Stephen Colbert Talks SCOTUS' Marriage Equality Ruling, Mocks Antonin Scalia's Fortune Cookie Line—Watch!

He also invited him to come on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, which debuts in September

By Corinne Heller Jun 28, 2015 7:22 PMTags

Stephen Colbert is back Stephen Colbert-ing gloriously even before he makes his TV debut this September as the new host of The Late Show following David Letterman's departure. His latest target? The Supreme Court justices who opposed the decision to legalize gay marriage.

On Friday, five out of nine of them ruled that the U.S. Constitution gives same-sex couples the right to wed and that all 50 states are prohibited from banning such marriages.

"Of course, not everyone's celebrating," Colbert, 51, said in a video posted on the new website of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and on the series' YouTube page on Friday, naming four of the nine Supreme Court justices who are "unhappy" about the ruling.

"I'll let you guess which ones. Here's a hint," the former Colbert Report host said, grimacing and growling.

CBS, AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

He then responded to arguments presented by opposing justices, namely conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 79.

"Please come on my show, sir," Colbert said.

The video's caption reads, "Looking forward to Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion of this video."

In the clip, Colbert quotes from Scalia's dissent on gay marriage, in which the justice stated that the Supreme Court "has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie."

 "And he's right," the talk show host joked. "I've got a fortune cookie right here."

He cracked one open and read from a mock fortune.

"The history of marriage is one of both continuity and change...in bed."