Adam Cohen

Antonin Scalia

Quote of the Day: Was Porky Pig a Founding Father?

The drafters could have written the Constitution as a list of specific rules and said, “That’s all, folks!” Instead, they wrote a document full of broadly written guarantees…. — Time magazine columnist Adam Cohen, criticizing Justice Antonin Scalia’s approach to constitutional interpretation. (Gavel bang: Dahlia Lithwick.) (Please note that Quotes of the Day are selected […]