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He is especially lauded for his loyalty to "originalism," the theory that the Constitution should be interpreted in accord with original intentions of the framers (as channeled by the judge).
This argument--that judges only use originalism to dispute decisions they don't like--is as compelling a reason to distrust originalism as any historical reason.
Scalia offers two antidotes to this epidemic of judicial lawmaking: textualism and originalism.
The massive cover book review praises Justice Antonin Scalia for changing the course of American jurisprudence from "common-law constitutionalism" to "originalism," then blasts him for betraying his own principles: Scalia has abandoned neutrality and now decides cases based on his own political views.
Of course, Dred Scott , which ruled that blacks, whether slave or free, couldn't be citizens, came to be condemned not just as racist but as a quintessential example of tortured reasoning in the service of a judge's personal prejudice--precisely the kind of jurisprudence that originalism's advocates claim it alone can avoid.