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  • Elena Kagan: The Supreme Court Adopted Scalia’s Textualist Judicial Reasoning

    10/19/2017 11:14:24 AM PDT · by Sopater · 46 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | October 18, 2017 | Andrew Kugle
    Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said Monday the high court has adopted much of the late Justice Antonin Scalia's textualist judicial reasoning. Kagan was speaking to an audience at the Chicago-Kent College of Law when she said that Scalia's judicial reasoning has come to dominate the court, the Washington Examiner reported. Scalia, who sat on the Supreme Court for 30 years before his death in 2016, was a proponent of textualism, a theory in which the interpretation of law is based on the meaning of legal text as it would be commonly understood at the time of its passage, and...
  • Bush: Miers Shares Constructionist Views

    10/04/2005 5:47:16 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 31 replies · 775+ views
    Associated Press ^ | October 4, 2005 | TOM RAUM
    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush pushed back against suggestions by some skeptical Republicans that Harriet Miers was not conservative enough, insisting on Tuesday that his nominee to the Supreme Court shares his strict-constructionist views. "I know her heart," Bush told a Rose Garden news conference. "Her philosophy won't change." As his White House counsel made the rounds of Senate offices, Bush reached out to his conservative supporters with words of reassurance. "I hope they're listening," said the president as he worked to appease conservatives without giving new ammunition to Democrats.Some commentators and activists have expressed open disappointment with Bush's selection...