Earlier today, the C-Span TV network aired a live debate (or “conversation”) between Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the President of the American Civil Liberties Union, Nadine Strosser. If you didn’t see it, don’t miss it on rerun, or else be sure to watch it via the C-Span site. In a potentially quite hostile situation, in front of an ACLU gathering and facing the pointed questions of its president, Scalia explained with crystal clear clarity why the only way of protecting all of us against judicial overreaching and the tyranny of the majority is by striving to interpret the U.S. Constitution according to its original intent. Every carefully prepared point brought up by Ms. Strosser was squarely, good-humoredly and definitively knocked out of the court (so to speak). There’s no question that a lot of people watching who may have been very skeptical of Scalia — albeit those people with minds that were not entirely closed — had to have experienced something like a real enlightenment. Continuing the sports analogies, it was simply a home run.

Good work, Nino.

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