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Justice Scalia and Marbury v. Madison

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Lee Liberman Otis has this post at SCOTUSblog with the above title, noting how her constitutional law professor, Antonin Scalia, had a view of the Marbury case different from what is usually taught in law school. 

This reading of Marbury, I later realized, was integral to how Justice Scalia saw his job - not as the shaper of the Constitution, but as its servant.   And while, to be sure, there is something to be said for both ways of viewing the case, it turns out that there is a lot more to be said for Justice Scalia's than most of the professoriate had been inclined to think.

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