When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to Columbia Law School’s chapter of the Federalist Society, the students presented him with a t-shirt adorned with four letters; “WWSD,” it read.
What Would Scalia Do?
Alito opened the national convention of the Federalist Society, a conservative/libertarian legal forum, Thursday morning, offering an elegy of Scalia’s legacy.
In the intervening months since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, Alito said a “palpable emptiness” grips conference and oral arguments. In 30 years on the Court, Alito noted Scalia wrote 870 opinions, fundamentally changed the thrust of oral arguments, purged most references to legislative history, facilitated a textualist revolution on the bench, and led rousing choruses of “happy birthday” with his “velvety tenor.”...
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