Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

Larry Wilkerson examines the pitfalls of Scalia’s theory of originalism and how this creates a tendency of disunion rather than cohesion when interpreting the law Distinguished Adjunct Professor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scalia’s core methodological commitments, moreover, are less settled than sometimes appears. One reason why Scalia is invoked so ...

After her fourth term on the bench, Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett is asserting her voice and following in the footsteps of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a pioneer of originalism ...

BURLINGTON U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia brought his legal doctrine of constitutional originalism to the University of Vermont on Friday. Speaking before a full house of about ...

Justice Antonin Scalia holds himself out as the patron saint of originalism, the idea that judges should interpret the Constitution according to its original public meaning. To do otherwise, he adds, ...

How to sum up Justice Scalia’s impact on the law? We can begin with his jurisprudence on the structural Constitution, which I discussed in part 2. Scalia’s warnings about independent agencies and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court may reinterpret what is considered a "cruel and unusual punishment." If they do, Albany might become a ...

Supreme Court’s Chiles Decision Resulted from Decades of Legal Ground-Tilling A Senate Timing Update This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—April 10 Audio By Carbonatix Gregory J. Sullivan says the ...

Ten years ago today, my old boss Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia passed away. At the time of his death, it was clear that he was already one of the most influential justices ever to serve ...

NPR's Nina Totenberg explains how the idea that the Constitution is "not living but dead" transformed the Supreme Court during Antonin Scalia's... Originalism: A Primer On Scalia's Constitutional ...