The dynamic duo of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner has done it again: They’ve taken a dusty corner of the law and made it shine, or at least bristle. After their best-selling 2008 book Making Your Case on appellate advocacy, their new tome, Reading Law, is out this week.
It expounds on one of Scalia’s favorite pet peeves: judges who misinterpret statutes and other legal texts, including the Constitution. Straying from statutory text has caused “the descent into social rancor over judicial decisions,” they wrote. Wickard v. Filburn, a key precedent in the health care cases, expanded the commerce clause “beyond all reason,” they submit. And they take on Roe v. Wade, which struck state anti-abortion laws based on a “nebulous type of unconstitutionality.” They assert the 1973 ruling deserves no respect as precedent. Legislative history is “pure fantasy.” Tony Mauro
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