Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence, by Ralph Rossum, is favorably reviewed by John McGinnis on Opinion Journal today:

Respecting the original meaning of the constitutional text is, for Justice Scalia, the only way of making judicial decision-making consistent with the rule of law and democracy. The greatest threat to both, he believes, is the temptation of judges to substitute their own values for those of the Framers, thereby cutting legal rules free from their moorings and, too often, usurping elected legislatures and the popular will. The constitutional text may at times be ambiguous, he concedes, but the best response to such ambiguity is to defer to American traditions, not to the enthusiasms of the moment.

The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change aims to be “the best site on the Internet for the ideas and concerns of conservative blacks and other nonwhite Americans.” It now offers PDF files of all of Justice Thomas’s majority opinions, here. Here’s hoping they add his dissents soon!

Lagniappe: Ralph Rossum debates Henry Jaffa on natural rights and the Supreme Court, here.  Rossum’s 2002 book, Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy, is reviewed here.