The unexpected Scalia : a conservative justice's liberal opinions /

The unexpected Scalia : a conservative justice's liberal opinions /

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Author / Creator:	Dorsen, David M., 1935- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xvi, 377 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Scalia, Antonin. Scalia, Antonin. United States. -- Supreme Court -- Biography. United States. -- Supreme Court. Judges -- United States -- Biography. Judges. United States. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10990818

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ISBN:	9781107184107 110718410X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-355) and index.
Summary:	"Antonin Scalia was one of the most important, outspoken, and controversial Justices in the past century. His endorsements of originalism, which requires deciding cases as they would have been decided in 1789, and textualism, which limits judges in what they could consider in interpreting text, caused major changes in the way the Supreme Court decides cases. He was a leader in opposing abortion, the right to die, affirmative action, and mandated equality for gays and lesbians, and was for virtually untrammelled gun rights, political expenditures, and the imposition of the death penalty. But both the concept and the execution of originalism, by Scalia and other originalists, have been seriously flawed, leading to decisions that are both historically incorrect and socially and politically undesirable. A close friend of Scalia, David Dorsen explains the flawed judicial philosophy of one of the most important Supreme Court Justices of the past century"--

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