Word: scalia
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About 500 people attended the discussion, where Scalia called himself a defender of the Constitution and a facilitator of the democratic process...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia answered questions yesterday afternoon at the Law School on topics ranging from original intent to the quality of Harvard Law School...
...Scalia said further that his priority is upholding the Constitution and the democratic philosophy which inspired it. "I've shown favoritism to those rights that are explicitly protected in the Constitution versus those rights that are not explicitly protected in the Constitution," he said...
...Scalia said this does not mean that all rights have to be specifically enumerated in the Constitution...
...opponent of the death penalty and you can't beat me in an argument then you're not going to beat Justice Rehnquist, or Justice Scalia. So I make the argument for the death penalty and try to make you come up with better arguments. If you're a strident feminist who believes that convicting accused rapists is more important than civil liberties, you're going to have to make that argument to me successfully. I'm not just going to pat you on the head and say, "Nice argument...