The Court And Common Sense
By DONALD DeMARCO Common sense may not be chic in the eyes of the elite, but it provides a solid ground on which edifices can be mounted that will not crumble. We live in an age in which people pride themselves in being “progressive.” But this fashionable term can mean abandoning one’s roots in the interest of achieving something presumably better. Nonetheless, one cannot build a skyscraper without a firm foundation.The late Antonin Scalia (1936-2016), former associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, together with Bryan A. Garner, attend to this problem in their groundbreaking book, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012). In the light of the chaos generated by the apparent overturning of Roe v. Wade,…Continue Reading