James Rosen

from the writings and speeches of Antonin Scalia in the 70s and 80s to Dobbs.

And he said, absolutely there is.

So Scalia's impact is still with us in a very big way.

And again, it was his magnetic personality.

It was his genius with words.

It was his humor.

It was his constant evangelism on and off the bench.

that swayed whole generations of lawyers away from the living constitution construct from the Warren court era and over towards an original meaning construct, which is more rooted in the Reagan era.

When President Reagan nominated Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court in June 1986, Scalia had spent four years, having been previously nominated by President Reagan, on the D.C.

Circuit.

That's the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

It's the Court of Appeals that's one rung below the Supreme Court.

And the D.C.

Circuit is often described as the second most powerful court in the

so frequently shapes the output of the Supreme Court, but also so many justices are plucked from the ranks of the D.C.

Circuit.

At one time, on the D.C.

Circuit, what a murderer's row of judicial talent we had, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Antonin Scalia to Robert Bork

to Kenneth Starr, to James Buckley, Larry Silberman, truly an extraordinary array of judicial talent.

And so when the vacancy arose in 1986 because the Chief Justice since 1969, Warren Burger, retired, President Reagan was very adamant that the only types of people who would be able to demonstrate that they shared his judicial philosophy of original meaning