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2 days ago · Since the death of Antonin Scalia, Thomas has been the Court's foremost originalist, stressing the original meaning in interpreting the Constitution. In contrast to Scalia—who had been the only other consistent originalist—he pursues a more classically liberal variety of originalism.
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2 days ago · Alito’s consistent conservatism led some Supreme Court watchers to dub him “Scalito”—a suggestion that he was an acolyte of his fellow conservative associate justice Antonin Scalia (1936–2016). But although Alito very rarely sided with liberal justices against conservative justices, his decisions and opinions revealed a distinct brand ...
1 day ago · The naming of the Antonin Scalia Law School after the late conservative United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the hiring of conservative United States Supreme Court Justices Bret Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas as professors, the allegedly “lavish treatments,” speaking gigs, and "all-experiences-paid" travel ...
3 days ago · Early in his tenure on the Court, Thomas was accused of simply following the lead of Justice Scalia, another ardent originalist, whose decisions Thomas frequently joined. Both Scalia and Thomas adamantly rejected this notion.
4 days ago · My late colleague and friend Justice Antonin Scalia, for example, put it this way: “textualism” holds that words in a legal phrase, read with an eye toward “their full context,” mean “what they conveyed to reasonable people at the time they were written.”
5 days ago · Ilya Somin’s Article Argues That Texas Is Wrong to Equate Illegal Migration and Drug Smuggling with Invasion. Lawfare (published 03/27/2024) Jamil Jaffer Discusses Recent Terrorist Attack in Moscow. News Nation (published 03/26/2024) Ilya Somin Cited on Flaws in Harvard-Harris Poll.
6 days ago · Justice Scalia sought to persuade us that unelected judges in a democracy should keep their lawmaking to a minimum. And he thought his philosophies of originalism and textualism were the best ways to determine when judges strayed too far.
