Until recently, some of your 6th Amendment rights were not taken seriously. Conservatives made a mess of the law. Originalists fixed it. With this entry, I’m going to make you an expert on the 6th Amendment while making an enemy out of the ghost of William Rehnquist and Warren Berger. And the way I’m going […]
The following is the transcript of my favorite speech ever delivered by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Although I have never actually heard the speech, every time I read the words below, his voice rings alive in my mind. I take no credit for the transcript. It is available in Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, […]
“I attack ideas; I don’t attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can’t separate the two . . . you don’t want to be a judge.” Justice Scalia died of natural causes and was quite certainly not assassinated. But given the abundance of disrespect and vilification in discourse […]
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