Up next on booktv after words sub three son of the Late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia shares his father speeches on law, faith and virtue. Interviewed by david savage. Host Christopher Scalia your father Antonin Scalia was one of the most powerful writers in Supreme Court opinions. He wrote a lot of dissent great for people like me quoting them but this is not a book about court. The book about speeches so why speeches . Guest yeah as you said his opinions are memorable and im often told by law students and reporters that they went to his opinions first for that reason. They were so crisply written and evocative and powerful. His speeches have some of the same, really all the same great qualities that his opinions do but i think the advantage of his speeches is that he could let war of his personality shine through for one thing. He was a great performer, little bit of a ham. He played in the death in a High School Production of that play and i think he was the president of geor
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