St. John's Law Review

Article Title

"We Are All Textualists Now": The Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia

Authors

Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain

Document Type

Remarks

Abstract

(Excerpt)

One of my favorite extra-judicial activities is meeting with law students, and it is a pleasure to be with you today. But it is a special privilege to come back to the Jamaica campus of St. John’s College from which I graduated 60 years ago, long before the Law School had moved here from Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn, and when there was only one building on this former golf course.

I was honored to call Justice Scalia a role model and friend. What I hope to convey to you today, however, is the effect Justice Scalia’s tenure on the United States Supreme Court had on the Court itself, other judges, and ultimately, the rule of law.