I swear, the way most of the press describes Scalia, its no wonder so many people think he's a terrible Justice. If this description

Interpreting the Constitution is a cut-and-dry matter for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

from The Daily Mississippian were accurate, I'd think he's terrible too; no matter what your interpretive strategy, there are a lot of hard Constitutional questions out there. The problem is that the article's claim is completely false. Scalia certaintly doesn't think interpreting the Constitution is a "cut-and-dry matter," and, in fact, this very article fails to provide any support for that claim. It discusses how Scalia is an originalist, meaning that he uses a certain (controversial) strategy to approach the hard questions, not that he denies the existence of hard questions. No need to let the evidence get in the way of your reporting, I guess.
- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 11:37 AM