"What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?"

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About Antonin Scalia

American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1986 to 2016. He was a leading advocate of textualism and originalism in constitutional interpretation. His opinions had lasting influence on American legal theory and practice.

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