JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA 1789-2016
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With the timely passing of 79 year old United States Supreme Court JusticeAntonin Scalia on Saturday one can only hope that we might have a sufficient reprieve from his reactionary "originalism" legal views to bring this country and the Supreme Court into the 21st century where there might finally be a chance of liberty and justice for all under law.
Since his appointment to the high court in 1986 Scalia had been the leading voice of the Supreme Court's precedent establishing 5-4 conservative decisions in many areas of the law that overturned the prior more liberal interpretations of the early Warren Court.
Up until his passing, Scalia's monomaniacal adherence to originalism had steadfastly sought and succeeded in beatifying and making the sole measure of that which is constitutional the ideas- and prejudices- of our Founding Fathers in 1789 when the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
Scalia and his conservative originalist colleagues on the Court without ever taking into consideration the understandable prejudicies and limitations 18th century entitled White men must have unquestioningly brought to the process of drafting the constitution had sought through a close to 30 year tenure of office on the Court to have this country continue to determine that which is legal by the sole measure of what these drafters JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA 1789-2016 - Perdaily.com:
