PSCI 4396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Antonin Scalia, Microsoft Onenote, Constitutionalism

• School: UT-Dallas
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 4396
• Professor: Lowry Robert

Document Summary

At its best, allows us to abstract or pull out the essence of what we"re modeling. Paired down representation of what is really happening. Not intended to be complete descriptions of reality. The more parsimonious the model is, the better. There are always going to be exceptions to the model. Judges vote the way they do due to their policy preferences. Scalia voted how he voted because he is conservative, rbg votes because she is liberal. Judges are primarily concerned with applying the law correctly. Emphasizes the idea judges are motivated by duty. In many ways considered the ideal model for how judges should make decision. Judges want to play by the rules of judging, all judges are playing the same rules. Trying to do stuff but constrained in different ways which is called the legal model. Judge robots that just follow rigid sets of rules. You put the case facts in, reference the law, get an outcome.