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During the discussion, Scalia briefly touched on the pending confirmation of judge John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 as chief justice of the Supreme Court. He said Roberts’ comparison of a Supreme Court justice to a baseball umpire was a “fair description” of the way most courts should operate...
...We’re really not there to make sure that the good guy won and the bad guy lost,” Scalia said...
During a question-and-answer session, one student asked the panel about the potential political pressures involved in the controversial Bush v. Gore case. Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz had suggested that he direct the question toward Scalia, he explained...
...He’s still mad at me, isn’t he?” Scalia retorted jokingly, before adding, more seriously, that he had not witnessed any justice take into account “political considerations” in deciding the case...
...Scalia said that the politicization of the Supreme Court could be attributed to the emergence of a “judicial philosophy which says the Constitution is indeterminate...