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How Appealing: "Supreme Court Justices debate, draw laughs at Tucson event"
ACS Blog: Justices Breyer, Scalia Wrangle over Interpreting the Constitution
The Corner on National Review Online: Brown, Plessy, Whatever -- By: Ed Whelan
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Excellent debate between Justices Scalia and Breyer: http://bit.ly/2wruvo (via @JohnJ2427 @KatyinIndy) 10/28/2009 |
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@frisbar Watch out! Antonin pleads not guilty: http://bit.ly/2YLARp Whole thingy: http://bit.ly/2wruvo 10/28/2009 |
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Excellent debate between Justices Scalia and Breyer: http://bit.ly/2wruvo (via @ JohnJ2427 @KatyinIndy) 10/28/2009 |
"Supreme Court Justices debate, draw laughs at Tucson event"
How Appealing —
... Scalia: Rival doctrine seeks rigidity."
And the Office of University Communications at the University of Arizona has issued a news release headlined "What Would the Founders Think? During a UA-sponsored event, U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer discussed their personal judicial philosophies in determining how the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted."
Via the web site of Arizona Public Media, you can view today's event online by clicking here.
Justices Breyer, Scalia Wrangle over Interpreting the Constitution
ACS Blog —
... During their recent debate at the University of Arizona, Scalia (right) said his "originalist" philosophy for interpreting the Constitution leads him to conclude that reproductive rights, for instance, are unconstitutional. "Right to abortion?" Scalia said. "Come on. Nobody thought it violated anything in the Constitution for 200 years. It was criminal." ...
Brown, Plessy, Whatever -- By: Ed Whelan
The Corner on National Review Online —
... of a newspaper article contending that Scalia recently stated that he would have dissented in Brown. Well, apparently he actually stated that he would have joined Justice Harlan’s dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson—in other words, the exact opposite of the position that the newspaper imputed to him. (I haven’t reviewed the video myself, but that’s what someone who has done so tells me, and that’s also what Yale law professor Jack Balkin—no admirer of Scalia’s jurisprudence— ...
Brown, Plessy, Whatever -- By: Ed Whelan
Bench Memos on National Review Online —
... of a newspaper article contending that Scalia recently stated that he would have dissented in Brown. Well, apparently he actually stated that he would have joined Justice Harlan’s dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson—in other words, the exact opposite of the position that the newspaper imputed to him. (I haven’t reviewed the video myself, but that’s what someone who has done so tells me, and that’s also what Yale law professor Jack Balkin—no admirer of Scalia’s jurisprudence— ...
Scalia Gets Misquoted, Badly
Weekly Standard Blog —
... public schools. He said that decision, which overturned earlier precedent, was designed to provide an approach the majority liked better. "I will stipulate that it will,'' Scalia said. But he said that doesn't make it right. "Kings can do some stuff, some good stuff, that a democratic society could never do,'' he continued. "Hitler developed a wonderful automobile,'' Scalia said. "What does that prove?''
Jack Balkin at Balkinization watched the Scalia video and found the newspaper got it very wrong:
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