Antonin Scalia Case Summary

Scalia sat in on a number of extremely important cases during his term which allowed him to right a number of strong opinions and dissents that are well known in the legal world. Some of Scalia’s more well-known opinions and dissents pertain to the following cases: District of Columbia v. Heller, Obergefell v. Hodges, National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, Lawrence v. Texas, Kansas v. Marsh, King v. Burwell, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Scalia’s use of textualism becomes clear in these cases with the language he uses in his opinions and dissents. In District of Columbia v. Heller, Scalia authored an incredible majority opinion stating why the court decided the way it did. In his opinion Scalia argued that the term “militia”
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Therefore, attempting to ban handguns or any other class of firearms that is commonly used as a means of protection, and prohibiting them from being kept in a home which is an area that needs protection violates the Second Amendment. Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges is an extremely, powerfully written piece of artwork that brings forth what Scalia calls a threat to American democracy. The decision of whether same-sex marriage being legalized should have been a decision that was left to the states. Democracy was being practiced when the people presented their arguments for either side and allowed the electorates to cast their vote on it. The electorates of 11 states decided to legalize it while many others did not. However, this did not mean that same-sex marriage would never become legal in those states. There was always another chance to gain the vote of the electorates and it would become legal in the coinciding state. Yet, when the Supreme Court came in and decided that it should be legal nationwide they took a fundamental right of the people, one that made America a Democracy, away. The people nor the States no longer