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The New Yorker on Justice Scalia
Margaret Talbot's piece about Justice Scalia ("Supreme Confidence") in the March 28, 2005 New Yorker provides some excellent insights. Talbot does a great job explaining Scalia's "originalist" jurisprudence. While he is a man of great intelligence, his rigid judicial philosophy has created conflict on the court, particularly with O'Connor. The exception to this is apparently Justice Ginsburg, with whom he maintains a friendship. Talbot writes that "despite Scalia's failure as a politician, he has influenced the way the Rehnquist Court approaches jurisprudence. . . . Under Scalia's brusque tutelage, the other justices have paid closer attention to the language of particular statutes." Talbot has written an interesting and readable profile of this enigmatic jurist, and I would highly recommend it to you.