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?David Souter vs. the Antonin Scalias?

By Alliance Alert

E.J. Dionne Jr. writing in the Washington Post: "In a remarkable speech that received far too little attention, former Supreme Court justice David Souter took direct aim at the conservatives' favorite theory of judging. Souter's verdict: It 'has only a tenuous connection to reality.' At issue is 'originalism,' an approach to reading the Constitution whose seeming precision has given conservatives a polemical advantage over the liberals' 'living Constitution' idea that appears to let judges say our founding document means whatever they want it to mean." | Via How Appealing.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).