{"title":"Icon","authors":"E. Purcell","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197508763.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197508763.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter traces Justice Antonin Scalia’s rise from law school to a position on the Supreme Court and then his emergence as a judicial icon representing “conservatism” and “originalism” in opposition to the legacy of the Warren Court. It locates his rise in his political commitment to the Republican Party, his appeal to President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese III, and his triumph over his fellow conservative intellectual Robert Bork for the leadership of judicial conservatism and the effort to promote constitutional originalism. Once established on the Court, Scalia’s influence grew until he and his jurisprudence became significant political issues for both national parties, especially in subsequent judicial confirmation hearings and presidential elections. When Scalia died in early 2016, his replacement became a major issue in the presidential campaign, and the new Trump administration promised to replace him with the most Scalia-like candidate it could find.","PeriodicalId":240049,"journal":{"name":"Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124492152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theorist","authors":"E. Purcell","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197508763.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197508763.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses Justice Antonin Scalia’s jurisprudence and his advocacy of what he called “public meaning” originalism in contrast to Robert Bork’s “original intent” originalism. The U.S. Constitution was properly construed, Scalia maintained, only by focusing on the text of the document itself and, where necessary, on the public writings of the Founders and well-established national “traditions.” Scalia rejected all other interpretive theories and lumped them together as “nonoriginalist” types of subjective and antidemocratic theories of “living” constitutionalism. This chapter examines the elements and assumptions behind his jurisprudence and offers a severe critique of both. It summarizes and draws on an extensive literature undermining the claims of his constitutional “originalism and concludes that his jurisprudential ideas were deeply flawed for a variety of reasons.","PeriodicalId":240049,"journal":{"name":"Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129238680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}