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Law School News: From Classroom To Courtroom 11-10-2022, Michelle Choate
Law School News: From Classroom To Courtroom 11-10-2022, Michelle Choate
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Textualism Today: Scalia’S Legacy And His Lasting Philosophy, Chase Wathen
Textualism Today: Scalia’S Legacy And His Lasting Philosophy, Chase Wathen
University of Miami Law Review
Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1986 by President Reagan, Justice Antonin Scalia redefined the philosophy of textualism. Although methods like the plain meaning rule had been around for over a century, the textualist philosophy of today was not mainstream. While Scalia’s textualism is thought to be a conservative philosophy, Scalia consistently maintained that it was judicial restraint rather than conservatism at the heart of his method. The key tenant of Scalia’s new textualism was an outright rejection of legislative history, which he often brought up in opinions only to mock and dismiss as irrelevant. Starting with the hypothesis that …