Will Scalia Blow the Whistle on This Constitutional Farce?

By Norman Ornstein
Roll Call Contributing Writer
March 15, 2006, 12 a.m.

A few weeks back, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia described the legal philosophy of his adversaries — those who believe that interpretation of the Constitution should not rely on strict adherence to the words and intent of the document and the framers. “But you would have to be an idiot to believe that,” Scalia said. “The Constitution is not a living organism — it is a legal document. It says something and doesn’t say other things.”



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