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Article: Constitution safe with Scalia
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 28, 1986
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The nomination of Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court has been
greeted with a great deal of talk about where he stands on a series
of controversial political issues. But the important question to ask
about him, or any other nominee to the Supreme Court, is not whether
he is for or against abortion or affirmative action or school prayer.
It is whether he is for or against the Constitution.
Putting it that way, I know, sounds gratuitously provocative and
melodramatic. But the terms in which the question is usually framed
- does he believe in judicial activism or in judicial restraint? -
are less precise and even misleading.
The reason is that judicial activism has gone much further over ...