Scalia to Federalist Society: Court shouldn't 'invent new minorities'
Source: The Missoulian
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a Montana audience Monday that American courts too often decide what rights we “ought to have,” when that decision instead should lie with the people, through their elected officials.
Scalia, speaking to more than 300 people at a Bozeman luncheon sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society, said this “inventing” of rights goes directly against his crusade to uphold the U.S. Constitution’s “original meaning” – a cause he said is losing ground.
“We’re now in an age when the high court’s opinions speak of an evolving Constitution,” he said. “It means what it ought to mean. And who decides what it ought to mean?
“Nine lawyers. Actually five lawyers. What, are you crazy? Who would ever set up a system like that?“
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