If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

Lee to Scalia's great disappointment. "
The Court returned to the issue of abortion in the 2000 case of Stenberg v. "
In 2007 the Court upheld a federal statute banning partial-birth abortion in Gonzales v.

Scalia was unanimously confirmed by the Senate and took his seat on September 26 1986. After spending six years in a Cleveland law firm he became a law school professor. Antonin Gregory Scalia (/skəˈlijə/; born March 11 1936) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.