{"id":1090,"date":"2016-02-15T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2016\/02\/15\/justice-scalia-in-memoriu\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:23","slug":"justice-scalia-in-memoriu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Justice Scalia &#8211; In Memorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9732,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scotusblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2008\\\/06\\\/07-290.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scotusblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2008\\\/06\\\/07-290.pdf&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1075,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.oyez.org\\\/cases\\\/2007\\\/07-290&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260404145945\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.oyez.org\\\/cases\\\/2007\\\/07-290&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 12:27:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 12:55:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 14:21:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 15:57:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 11:36:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05 07:16:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05 07:16:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9733,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/joshblackman.com\\\/blog\\\/2016\\\/02\\\/13\\\/nominations-to-supreme-court-in-election-year-with-divided-and-unified-governments&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/joshblackman.com\\\/blog\\\/2016\\\/02\\\/13\\\/nominations-to-supreme-court-in-election-year-with-divided-and-unified-governments\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9734,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/joshblackman.com\\\/blog\\\/2016\\\/02\\\/14\\\/gaming-out-the-replacement-of-justice-scalia-between-now-and-january-20-2017&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/joshblackman.com\\\/blog\\\/2016\\\/02\\\/14\\\/gaming-out-the-replacement-of-justice-scalia-between-now-and-january-20-2017\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nAs most people know by now, Justice Antonin Scalia passed away in his sleep sometime over Friday night and early Saturday morning while on a quail hunting trip to Texas. His death is a loss not only to the gun culture but to the country as a whole. It is also a loss to his wife Maureen and his nine children.<\/p>\n<p>When I choose to think of Justice Scalia&#8217;s legacy, I think back to his majority opinion in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/07-290.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>District of Columbia v. Heller<\/i> (2008)<\/a> when he wrote this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i><b> We know of no other enumerated constitutional right<br \/>\nwhose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding<br \/>\n\u201cinterest-balancing\u201d approach.<\/b> The very enumeration of<br \/>\nthe right takes out of the hands of government\u2014even the<br \/>\nThird Branch of Government\u2014the power to decide on a<br \/>\ncase-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting<br \/>\nupon. <b>A constitutional guarantee subject to future<br \/>\njudges\u2019 assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional<br \/>\nguarantee at all.<\/b> Constitutional rights are enshrined with<br \/>\nthe scope they were understood to have when the people<br \/>\nadopted them, whether or not future legislatures or (yes)<br \/>\neven future judges think that scope too broad. We would<br \/>\nnot apply an \u201cinterest-balancing\u201d approach to the prohibition<br \/>\nof a peaceful neo-Nazi march through Skokie. See<br \/>\nNational Socialist Party of America v. Skokie, 432 U. S. 43<br \/>\n(1977) (per curiam). The First Amendment contains the<br \/>\nfreedom-of-speech guarantee that the people ratified,<br \/>\nwhich included exceptions for obscenity, libel, and disclosure<br \/>\nof state secrets, but not for the expression of extremely<br \/>\nunpopular and wrong-headed views. The Second<br \/>\nAmendment is no different. Like the First, it is the very<br \/>\nproduct of an interest-balancing by the people\u2014which<br \/>\nJUSTICE BREYER would now conduct for them anew. <b>And<br \/>\nwhatever else it leaves to future evaluation, it surely<br \/>\nelevates above all other interests the right of law-abiding,<br \/>\nresponsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and<br \/>\nhome.&nbsp;<\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can also hear Justice Scalia reading the Court&#8217;s decision in Heller from the bench <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/2007\/07-290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I remember something former NRA President Sandy Froman said at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in (I think) Orlando. She said &#8220;pray for the five&#8221; meaning the majority in the Heller and McDonald decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are only four now.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama has said he plans to nominate a successor and that is his Constitutional <strike>right <\/strike>power. However, that <strike>right<\/strike>&nbsp;power is subject to the Senate&#8217;s Constitutional <strike>right <\/strike>&nbsp;power&nbsp;of &#8220;advise and consent&#8221;. As Second Amendment scholar <a href=\"http:\/\/joshblackman.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/13\/nominations-to-supreme-court-in-election-year-with-divided-and-unified-governments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Blackman has pointed out<\/a>, it has been since 1880 that a person was both nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court during a presidential election year when the President and Senate majority were of different parties. Professor Blackman has also posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/joshblackman.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/14\/gaming-out-the-replacement-of-justice-scalia-between-now-and-january-20-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">potential scenarios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We in the Second Amendment community and gun culture have lost an intellectual giant. We must be on our guard to make sure Justice Scalia&#8217;s replacement &#8211; as if he could be replaced &#8211; is someone true to the meaning of the Second Amendment. If it means forcing the Republican majority in the Senate to drag their heels, so be it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most people know by now, Justice Antonin Scalia passed away in his sleep sometime over Friday night and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1976],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-justice-antonin-scalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10620,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/10620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}