Word: originalist
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...Reagan’s veto, and clashed openly with Reagan over weapons development and support for the Contras. Kennedy also grew to be a staunch supporter of gay and women’s rights, and his opposition to Reagan’s Supreme Court candidate Robert Bork, a constitutional originalist who hoped to overturn Roe v. Wade, is credited with preventing Bork’s nomination. On the Senate floor, Kennedy furiously alleged that “Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated...
...when discussing the death penalty and his faith, Scalia expressed relief that the Church had yet to find the death penalty categorically immoral since that was neither his personal conclusion nor the Originalist position on the Constitution. "I like my job, and would rather not resign," he wrote in 2002. "[I]n my view, the choice for the judge who believes the death penalty to be immoral is resignation, rather than simply ignoring duly enacted, constitutional laws and sabotaging death penalty cases. He has, after all, taken an oath to apply the laws and has been given no power...
Other students echoed Negron’s request to promote a judicial philosophy different from the one that the Bush administration and Originalist judges like Alito and Antonin Scalia have supported...