Justice Scalia on Judges

you really can't judge judges unless you know the materials that they're working with you can't say oh this is a good decision and this was a good court simply because you like the result it seems to you that the person who deserved to win one that's not the business judges are in we are we know sit here to make the law to decide who ought to win we decide who wins under the law that the people have adopted and very often if you are a good judge you don't really like the result your rigor your reaching you would rather that the other side have wanted it seems to you a foolish law but in this job it's garbage in garbage out if it's a foolish law you are bound by oath to produce a foolish result because it's not your job to decide what is foolish and what isn't it's the job of the people across the street so don't judge judges unless you really take the trouble to read the opinion and see what provisions of law were at issue and and what they were trying to reconcile and whether they did an honest job of reconciling them and of interpreting the work the words of the law in a fair fashion that's what counts unless that's what you want your judges to do you you you have a judiciary that's not worth much you have a judiciary that is just making the law instead of being faithful to what the people have decided so that's my main advice be be slow to judge judges unless unless you know what they're working with

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Keywords: Antonin, Scalia, Supreme, Court

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Length: 1min 43sec (103 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 06 2009