U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told students and faculty at Utah State University on Monday, September 15th 2008, that the legality of abortion, same-sex marriage and other controversial issues should be decided by the American people, and not a panel of unelected judges. Scalia said that a shift in political practices in recent years, has left judges to legislate from the bench as they rewrite the Constitution. "A change occurred in the last half of the 20th century, and I'm sorry to say that my court was responsible for it" stated Scalia, "It was my court that invented the notion of a living Constitution" to keep up with what some justices call "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." Scalia was nominated by President Ronald Regan for the Supreme Court in 1986, and was confirmed by a 98-0 vote, something that will probably never happen again. Scalia made the comment that judges possess no greater ability to determine what is moral than Joe Six Pack. Value-laden decisions such as that should be made by an entire society, not by nine unelected judges.
Well put your Honor!!!
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