Today on Uncommon Knowledge, I ask Mr. Justice Antonin Scalia how he would like to be remembered.

Scalia: “I’m not a great believer in legacy.”

Robinson: “Then what is the point of writing dissents?”

Scalia: “Not to get a legacy. To get the thing right–to get the society to turn back to a proper interpretation of the Constitution….We had a wonderful thing here. We have a wonderful thing here. I truly believe it cannot continue if we turn over so much of our democratic self-governance–so much of what makes us great–to unelected judges.

“That is what I care about.”

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