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Archive of posts published in the tag: Antonio Scalia

The Law vs Moral Philosophy

from Kenneth Stars in the WSJ, Gorsuch Gets  Comfortable in Scalia’s Chair: When Scalia ascended to the high court in 1986, he saw the danger of a runaway judiciary, as embodied in the Warren Court and to a lesser extent

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Judicial Supervision of Democracy

from George Will at National Review, A Jurist of Colossal Consequence: Democracy’s drama derives from the tension between the natural rights of individuals and the constructed right of the majority to have its way. Natural rights are affirmed by the

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Nine Unelected Lawyers

from the WSJ Justice Scalia Writes: “The virtue of a democratic system with a First Amendment is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change

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