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05-13-2006, 11:56 AM
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Spitzer Blasts Scalia's 'Constructionist' View
Democratic candidate for governor Eliot Spitzer on Monday criticized the strict "constructionist" view of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who views the Constitution as unalterable by cultural or social trends.
"As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution," said Spitzer, the state attorney general, at the annual Law Day ceremony at the New York Court of Appeals. "A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be."
The next governor will have at least two spots to fill on the seven-member court with Judge Albert Rosenblatt's term ending on Dec. 31 and Chief Judge Judith Kaye's ending next March.
excerpt: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/2/225739.shtml?s=ic
Spitzer Blasts Scalia's 'Constructionist' View
Democratic candidate for governor Eliot Spitzer on Monday criticized the strict "constructionist" view of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who views the Constitution as unalterable by cultural or social trends.
"As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution," said Spitzer, the state attorney general, at the annual Law Day ceremony at the New York Court of Appeals. "A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be."
The next governor will have at least two spots to fill on the seven-member court with Judge Albert Rosenblatt's term ending on Dec. 31 and Chief Judge Judith Kaye's ending next March.
excerpt: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/2/225739.shtml?s=ic