Scalia is sad & that makes me happy.
In his speech, Scalia distinguished "originalism," which calls for adherence to the original text and meaning of the Constitution when interpreting it, from the theory of a "living" Constitution, which views the document as one that evolves and changes over time without being amended.
"They're not adhering to the text, they're operating as policy makers," Scalia, an "originalist," said of believers in a "living" Constitution. "They're not interpreting the constitution. They're writing one, they're revising one."
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On Tuesday, he called the same-sex marriage ruling "the furthest imaginable extension of the Supreme Court doing whatever it wants."
Scalia also noted that only one sitting Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, is from the South: The others are from California, New York and New Jersey. He said believers of a "living" Constitution should be upset by that.
"You should be upset because these people are making a new Constitution and they are terribly unrepresentative of the country," he said.
The Pope would probably give me penance for smiling (I would just tell him I am from California):
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/68440dae589743749a1e50ad071d9c89/scalia-addresses-constitution-same-sex-marriage-speech
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