{"id":5189,"date":"2008-04-28T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T12:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/justice-scalia-on-60-minutes.html"},"modified":"2008-04-28T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T12:29:27","slug":"justice-scalia-on-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/justice-scalia-on-60-minutes.html","title":{"rendered":"Justice Scalia on 60 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t like the premise of this interview because it makes Scalia&#8217;s view seem weird when &#8220;orginalism,&#8221; has been the standard view up till the last century. The weird view is the &#8220;living Constitution.&#8221; The constitution is a timeless document and doesn&#8217;t have to be forced fit to our changing society. That&#8217;s why we have the legislature. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At 72, Justice Scalia is still a maverick, championing a philosophy known as &#8220;orginalism,&#8221; which means interpreting the Constitution based on what it originally meant to the people who ratified it over 200 years ago.Scalia has no patience with so-called activist judges, who create rights not in the Constitution &#8211; like a right to abortion &#8211; by interpreting the Constitution as a &#8220;living document&#8221; that adapts to changing values.Asked what&#8217;s wrong with the living Constitution, Scalia tells Stahl, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with it is, it&#8217;s wonderful imagery and it puts me on the defensive as defending presumably a dead Constitution.&#8221;&#8221;It is an enduring Constitution that I want to defend,&#8221; he says. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Here&#8217;s the interview (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/04\/24\/60minutes\/main4040290.shtml\">here<\/a> is the transcript for those who are still using dialup):<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/thunder\/swf\/rcpHolderCbs-prod.swf\" width=\"370\" height=\"361\"allowFullScreen=\"true\" FlashVars=\"link=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sections\/i_video\/main500251.shtml?id=4048750n&#038;releaseURL=http:\/\/release.theplatform.com\/content.select?pid=44eAHBtIhBnjTonzlx4dDGgiJ9vivBfH&#038;partner=newsembed&#038;autoPlayVid=false&#038;prevImg=http:\/\/thumbnails.cbsig.net\/CBS_Production_News\/691\/445\/60_stahl_42708_480x360.jpg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><!--more-->Supreme Court, justice, Constitution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t like the premise of this interview because it makes Scalia&#8217;s view seem weird when &#8220;orginalism,&#8221; has been the standard view up till the last century. 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