On Justice Scalia and the loss of originalism

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 jud

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 jud…