Justice Scalia’s legacy of originalism

Published February 23, 2016 5:02am ET



In 1987, one year after Antonin Scalia’s confirmation as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, only 7 percent of the briefs filed before that court made an originalist argument. Twenty years later, 35 percent did so. This is no accident.

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