Justice Antonin Scalia Speaks Out on Fox News Sunday

[Valin]

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Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts

 

Publication Date: June 19, 2012

In this groundbreaking book by best-selling authors Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner, all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation are systematically explained in an engaging and informative style-including several hundred illustrations from actual cases. Never before has legal interpretation been so fascinatingly explained. Both authors are individually renowned for their scintillating prose styles, and together they make even the seemingly dry subject of legal interpretation riveting. Though intended primarily for judges and the lawyers who appear before them to argue the meaning of texts, Reading Law is sound educational reading for anyone who seeks to understand how judges decide cases-or should decide cases. The book is a superb introduction to modern judicial decision-making. Justice Scalia, with 25 years of experience on the Supreme Court, is the foremost expositor of textualism in the world today. Bryan A. Garner, as editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage, is the most renowned expert on the language of the law. Reading Law is an essential guide to anyone who wishes to prevail in a legal argument-based on a constitution, a statute, or a contract. The book is calculated to promote valid interpretations: if you have lame arguments, you'll deplore the book; if you have strong arguments, you'll exalt it. But whatever your position, you'll think about law more clearly than ever before.

[Pepper]

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How are Scalia’s comments today news in light of what Scalia had written over four years ago? If anything, it reaffirms that Heller is a pretty minimalist decision that only forecloses outright, blanket gun ownership bans but leaves space for an enormous number of regulations as long as they don’t make it virtually impossible for a law abiding adult citizen to own a firearm. Basically, if you don’t want to ban gun ownership outright, Heller isn’t standing in the way of your policy preferences. If you do want to ban the private ownership of guns without a constitutional amendment, then thank God for the Bill of Rights.

 

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[Valin]

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How are Scalia’s comments today news in light of what Scalia had written over four years ago? If anything, it reaffirms that Heller is a pretty minimalist decision that only forecloses outright, blanket gun ownership bans but leaves space for an enormous number of regulations as long as they don’t make it virtually impossible for a law abiding adult citizen to own a firearm. Basically, if you don’t want to ban gun ownership outright, Heller isn’t standing in the way of your policy preferences. If you do want to ban the private ownership of guns without a constitutional amendment, then thank God for the Bill of Rights.

 

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Does he mean I don't have a Constitutional Right to own one or three of these?

 

I've always suspected him of being a RINO. This only confirms it.