Live from the Personal Gehenna Nino Scalia Made for Himself: : Nino Scalia Punched Down: "He lectured at my law school on originalism...
...One of his first questioners from the audience was an audibly nervous law student. She asked whether we might owe less allegiance to the precise views of our constitution’s drafters and ratifiers, given that women, African-Americans, and Native Americans were excluded from those roles. Justice Scalia all but sneered in response, ‘Well, it’s obvious you just don’t believe in the idea of a constitution!’ It’s one thing to bare one’s teeth to another justice or even to a combative law professor. To scoff sarcastically--and, one must add, nonsensically--at a nervous student just felt like bullying...
