In the last half century, the Constitution of the United States has had no more powerful defender than Justice Antonin Scalia. On the bench and off, he has consistently spoken for the principles of jurisprudence most often called originalism and sometimes called textualism.
Scalia's goal was to interpret the Constitution and its Amendments as close to their original meaning as possible. Holding restraint and humility as essential characteristics of the judicial temperament, he insisted that judges refrain from foisting their own policy preferences upon the American people.
WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Warren tentatively weighed in on the debate over legalizing marijuana, asking the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the effects of legal access to pot on the rate of deaths from heroin and opioid drug overdoses.
The Bay State's senior U.S. Senator cited the "opioid epidemic that only continues to grow at an alarming pace."
