Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death 10 years ago this month reordered the Supreme Court, presidential politics and, as seen at the court today, invigorated the status of the man himself.
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Justice Antonin Scalia holds himself out as the patron saint of originalism, the idea that judges should interpret the Constitution according to its original public meaning. To do otherwise, he adds, ...
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A few years ago, the online magazine Slate hosted a contest. Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick asked readers--If you don't believe in interpreting the Constitution the way it was written more than 200 ...
NPR's Nina Totenberg explains how the idea that the Constitution is "not living but dead" transformed the Supreme Court during Antonin Scalia's... Originalism: A Primer On Scalia's Constitutional ...
Gregory J. Sullivan says the Supreme Court’s originalist majority has betrayed the originalist project in their Second Amendment cases, which, he says, are a cover for the “exercise of raw judicial ...
Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...
WASHINGTON - Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most outspoken and combative conservative, is not often described as friendly to criminals. But in recent years, Scalia has led an unusual ...
Three Supreme Court justices wrote tributes to the late Justice Antonin Scalia in the April Yale Law Journal lauding his lasting influence on the law. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia ...