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Justice Antonin Scalia clearly still seething over Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage
Antonin Scalia remains highly critical of his colleagues on the US Supreme Court who voted 5-4 back in June to make same-sex marriage legal across the US.
Scalia, one of the high court’s most outspoken conservative justices, called the ruling ‘extreme‘ during a speech this week at Rhodes College in Menphis, Tennessee.
‘They’re not interpreting the constitution. They’re writing one, they’re revising one,’ Scalia said of his more liberal colleagues.
Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia does not believe the US Constitution is a ‘living document’ that evolves. He is an ‘originalist’ who believes the court must adhere to the original text when interpreting the constitution.
‘They’re not adhering to the text, they’re operating as policy makers,’ he said of justices Anthony Kennedy. Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen G. Breyer.
He called the same-sex marriage ruling ‘the furthest imaginable extension of the Supreme Court doing whatever it wants.
‘Saying that the Constitution requires that practice, which is contrary to the religious beliefs of many of our citizens, I don’t know how you can get more extreme than that. I worry about a Court that’s headed in that direction.’
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