Supreme Court Cases: Antonin Scalia

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Antonin Scalia was a very interesting man with very interesting opinions. The talk held in his honor in the moot courtroom taught me a lot about what kind of man he was and what his opinions were on many of the major Supreme Court Cases. One of the most interesting things I learned about Scalia at the talk was that he had an extensive, and sometimes strange, vocabulary. Sometimes called “Scalegalese,” the words that Antonin Scalia chose to use in his opinions were not words that one would hear in every day conversation. In his dissent in King v Burwell, Scalia spoke of the Court’s “jiggery-pokery,” and in another instance, he called the Court’s upholding of Obamacare “somersaults of statutory interpretation.” Scalia believed that words had