Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his own words in "First Things":
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0205/articles/scalia.html
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0210/exchange.html

Editorial reactions to Scalia's famous (infamous) 2202 speech at the University of Chicago School of Divinity. Note the remarks of Sean Wilentz in the NY Times and rejoinders.

http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=23

See also Susan Jacoby in Jan. issue of American Prospect.
The God Squad (12/20/2004)
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=8947

What's the difference between a politically conservative Supreme Court and a Court dominated by religious conservatives?

Quote from "The God Squad" by Jacoby

What made this speech extraordinary was not Scalia's constitutional case for capital punishment but his open reliance on faith as the underpinning of his legal philosophy. I consulted five prominent constitutional-law professors and none could recall any other speech in which a Supreme Court justice explicitly used religion as the rational for a legal position. "If a judge is getting his legal directions from God and the Bible," says Norman Dorsen, Stokes Professor of Law at New York University … "constitutional and legal arguments are then transformed into religious arguments. And how do you argue with a judge's concept of God?"


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