"I am a believer in the method called originalism," said Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a speech on October, 2004, "which, in a nutshell, says that you look at the text of the Constitution... and you give the text the meaning it had when it was adopted."
The whimsy of his placing this view in an appropriate "nutshell" aside, it appears now that Justice Scalia's method is less "originalism" than it is self-interest. Sorry, "self-interestism."
Last week, Justice Scalia wrote...
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