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For a legal junkie like me, the following video of Justice Scalia and Breyer is awesomesauce. Not only a great insight on to what the two of them feel is the proper role of the judiciary, but the banter between the two of them shows that the barbs are left in the opinions.
On Capitol Hill, The Stephen and Nino Show Wows 'Em
By Andrew Cohen
They came. They kibbitzed. They tossed out fluffy platitudes about judicial restraint and constitutional boundaries. They patiently humored their eager hosts on the Senate Judiciary Committee. They were yet again the smartest guys in the room. Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer, graying veterans of hundreds of "What's the Judiciary Like?" speeches off the Court, sure gave good witness Wednesday when they came to Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers more about "The Role of Judges Under the Constitution of the United States."
http://www.theatlantic.com/national...ill-the-stephen-and-nino-show-wows-em/246216/
Video of the event; Scalia's take on how Americans generally fail to attempt to understand the Constitution and how a constitution is nothing without enforcement. The whole video is awesome, but if you can't watch all two and half hours, watch Scalia starting at 17:30. You realize how much of a genius he is.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/RoleofJ
On Capitol Hill, The Stephen and Nino Show Wows 'Em
By Andrew Cohen
They came. They kibbitzed. They tossed out fluffy platitudes about judicial restraint and constitutional boundaries. They patiently humored their eager hosts on the Senate Judiciary Committee. They were yet again the smartest guys in the room. Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer, graying veterans of hundreds of "What's the Judiciary Like?" speeches off the Court, sure gave good witness Wednesday when they came to Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers more about "The Role of Judges Under the Constitution of the United States."
http://www.theatlantic.com/national...ill-the-stephen-and-nino-show-wows-em/246216/
Video of the event; Scalia's take on how Americans generally fail to attempt to understand the Constitution and how a constitution is nothing without enforcement. The whole video is awesome, but if you can't watch all two and half hours, watch Scalia starting at 17:30. You realize how much of a genius he is.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/RoleofJ