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Posted on 02/14/2026 5:48:33 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was a larger-than-life figure. Which is why it’s hard to believe that Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, marks 10 years since his passing.
Often viewed as a chief pioneer of the modern originalist movement, Scalia was instrumental in laying the groundwork necessary for restoring proper jurisprudence to an institution that had swayed from its intended purpose. With his crafty wit and skilled penmanship, the Reagan appointee authored some of the most thought-provoking and memorable legal opinions in the court’s recent history.
Encapsulating the best moments from Scalia’s nearly 30-year Supreme Court career into one article is no easy task. But The Federalist is here to give you its best shot.
Consequences of Judicial Activism
As a staunch originalist, Scalia was a firm believer that a judge’s role is to interpret the Constitution and laws before him as they were written at the time of their enactment — not to create new legal “rights” and provisions through activist rulings based on public opinion. Seemingly foreseeing the rogue nature of today’s lower courts, the justice warned in a 2004 conference speech about the disastrous consequences that would await the country should such a reality come to fruition.
“As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to ‘do what the people want,’ instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically,” Scalia said, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.
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Scalia was easily the most animated of the justices. He tore those poor attorneys to pieces as he sought answers from them.
An amazing justice. An incredible legal mind. He was one of the few people who the title "jurist" truly fits.
There. Fixed it.
He is still greatly missed.
Wow. Has it really been 10 years?
You beat me to it. Murder is right.
I was a huge Scalia fan-but that conspiracy theory does not have a provable clue, motive or truth hidden under any rock, anywhere-sadly, he was responsible for his own untimely demise. He was obese because he constantly ate unhealthy food and had a liking for alcohol. In spite of having a heart condition he’d had for years getting worse because of those food preferences, he totally ignored his doc’s warnings about his weight and diet till the day he died...
None of that is a secret-he joked about his weight, heart condition and diet taking him out and said he’d rather eat what he liked and be fat-and that was his choice. He lived as he chose, did what made him happy-not anyone else-most people don’t have the balls to say f*** everybody else, and live their own way like Scalia did.
He was also a big guy with a tough-Italian vibe, and often armed-he would likely have taken out any wannabe assassin before they could get within 10 feet. He was not murdered, no cover-up there-it does not register on the conspiracy scale...
Nope-highly unlikely-check out some of his interviews from years past-he lived large, ate as he chose and ignored his weight/health for years, and joked about that...
John Poindexter changing his story and Cinderela Guevara not even viewing the body will certainly keep such suspicions alive. Neither you nor I were the coroner, of course, so I will not make any conclusions and you’re welcome to your opinion.
In every account, Ms Guevara followed the proper protocol of a non-violent or natural death in a rural area-she called Scalia’s official doc for what to do next-he’d expected some such thing to happen for awhile-diabetes, advanced heart disease, obesity and other health issues-where’s the surprise-or evidence of foul play there? Scalia’s lawyer-and friend-had come there with him to the hunt, too...
Scalia’s family refused an autopsy-I remember that from when it happened-they wanted his body home for any exam, so that is what was done...
As for Poindexter, he didn’t change anything-he just stayed shut up until he had informed the feds of the death of someone of that importance on his property-so would I, to avoid any accusations or harassment from the liberal, conservative hating press...
The national enquirer type of online publications still want a conspiracy, of course-but they also insist that Scalia was a member of some super-secret society along with his lawyer, Poindexter, and others and they were meeting for some reason there-it is all tinfoil hat stuff in my opinion...
Also-This happened in W Texas, near Big Bend-I used to go camping in Big Bend-park rangers there hand out a whole booklet of do and don’t rules for even a tent or simple RV hookup-have you ever been to that area? It is a barely populated, ultra protected national wildlife area, highly restricted as far as vehicle traffic, business etc. You can go without seeing a human for days if you chose-you will also take note of any human or vehicle you do see-not an easy place to do a crime in secret...
I don’t think an unhealthy diet kills you with a pillow on your face. But I could be wrong. 😏
My 1st hubby slept with a pillow on his face all the time-it freaked me out at first-he said he just liked it and had been doing it since he was a kid-in 20 years of marriage he never smothered. There is not enough pressure/weight in a bed pillow to do that-plus humans have an automatic reflex to throw off something that is impeding their breathing even a little-even babies have it-and it is more so in people with claustrophobia...
My dad was a LEO-a detective-investigator-he told us it actually takes a great deal of force to smother someone with a pillow-it is not like on TV or in the movies-it is a real struggle and bruises and other defensive wounds will show on the body if someone has been killed that way. And a big guy like that would not smother-you’d have to knock him out cold first, or he would take you down...
You can read Poindexter’s mind?
And no one investigated his murder, not his “he died peacefully in his sleep”
Agreed. He was an unhealthy, obese alcoholic and his lifestyle killed him.
No mind reading required-just simple logic and a strong sense of self-preservation would tell Poindexter-or any other sensible person who had a friend who was also an ultra high-profile jurist drop dead while visiting their place-to call the feds and get the scene quietly blocked off and protected from tampering ASAP-get anything that looks out of place, any suspicious items, etc bagged and tagged, dust and swab for DNA and prints and get it all on its way to the lab in DC before the local LEO’s are brought in...
It would not be sensible or wise to call the local sheriff’s office in BFE first-the most they normally do is arrest and investigate poachers of protected wildlife, answer domestic calls, mediate disputes between neighbors, or arrest underage kids for possession of weed or DUI.
They would go buckass wild over the death of someone that important, trample over the scene indiscriminately-and worst of all-call the drive-by media on their cell phones from the scene, stage stuff, text them photos, call a press conference to get their faces on every network and cable channel before noon, thereby ruining any chance of a thorough investigation. That would also have been pretty ruinous to Poindexter’s guided hunt business...
Thank you-I’m a suspicious person by nature-my dad made sure us kids were, as well as being a bit paranoid. I subscribe to a couple of conspiracy theories, like many people. I totally believe LBJ had the mafia hit JFK-Oswald was just a triggerman and Ruby the failsafe-but the obvious facts of Scalia’s demise just don’t lend themselves to any but the far-out tinfoil ones...
Logic can never be based on opinion.
Like I said-simple logic and a sense of self preservation-neither is based on opinion...
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