Lawyers Club of Chicago, 208
Lawyers’ Lounge (Supreme Court), 23, 44, 89, 212
Legal Aid, 4, 94
Legal Times, 73n19, 82
Legal Writing in Plain English (Garner), 158
legislative free-riding, 146
legislative history, 147, 193
Leighton, Thomas C., 241, 272, 273, 275, 277, 278, 280, 282, 283, 284, 286, 288, 289, 290, 292, 294, 295, 297, 298, 299, 300, 305, 308, 309, 310, 311, 313, 316, 323, 324, 325, 326, 328, 329, 330
Lennon, John, 344–45
Lewis, C. S., 102
Li, Ivan, 285
Li, Jennifer, 285, 286, 294
Li, Jenny, 242, 243, 284, 285, 286, 295, 298
Library of Congress, 117, 118, 331, 332
Lin, Polly, 290, 294, 298, 299, 307, 308, 311, 314, 320, 321, 322, 323, 326
Lincoln, Abraham, 34, 121
Liptak, Adam, 73n20
literary allusions in opinions, 303
Living Bill of Rights, The (Douglas), 201
“Living Constitution,” 167, 188, 201–2, 344
Loh, Quentin, 273
Loong, Lee Hsien, 270
Lord’s Prayer, 152, 196
Los Angeles, 11, 106, 189, 191, 192, 194
Lovers Lane Barber Shop (Dallas), 248, 255–56
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare), 179
Lucan, 83
Lynch, Sandra L., 223n
Lynch, William, 141
Ma, Geoffrey, 280, 314, 315
Mafia, 211, 220
Mahler, Gustav, 129
Making Your Case (Scalia & Garner), 62n, 107n29
advice in action before Supreme Court, 127
American Business Trial Lawyers (Los Angeles), 106–8
amusing introductions for live appearances, 106–7, 191–92, 217–18
applied to briefs in moot-court competition, 229–30
audiences’ votes on debated issues, 97, 121, 123–24
audiobook version, 122–25
authorial workloads, 40–41
book signings, 97–98
breakup, 46–49
Burton Awards, 117–19
consulting lower-court judges about advocacy, 62–63
contractions in, 64–65, 76
critical readers, 155, 162
Dallas Bar Association meeting, 90–93
debating disagreements, 77–80, 97
dedication to authors’ parents, 84
elbow jabs, 63, 197
final editing, 82–84
first draft, 40–41, 67–68
footnoting citations, 77, 78, 79
indexing problems, 86–87
Kennedy Center, 4, 94, 96, 97, 98, 106–08, 120–21, 124, 126
learning the literature, 40–41
meeting of the minds, 32–41
misunderstanding threatens collaboration, 46–51
passive voice vs. active voice, 74–76
photographs for, 68, 83–84
point/counterpoint arguments, 79
pre-release reviews, 81–82
presentations, 4, 94, 96, 97, 98, 121, 124, 126
production and publicity, 84–85
pronouns and gender argument, 65–67, 76
proposal and acceptance, 29–32
quotations to enhance the text, 58, 60, 68
Scalia vs. Garner style, 76
shaded boxes, 58, 59, 60, 68, 85, 246
60 Minutes interview, 88–90
State Bar of Texas, 106, 117, 120–22, 135, 218
team-teaching, 94
technical difficulties, 43–46
working in chambers, 61–64
Mandela, Nelson, 162
Manson, Charles, 258
Marble Palace (Frank), 101
Marlowe, Christopher, 133
Marshall, John, 101, 228, 235
Marshall, Thurgood, 136, 155, 156, 318, 332
Marshal’s Office (Supreme Court), 23, 32, 33, 208, 215
Mary Poppins, 79
Masses, Catholic, 3, 143, 151–52, 246, 264, 265, 294
Matter of Interpretation, A (Scalia), 26, 27, 35, 129
Maurer, Anton, 319, 328
Mauro, Tony, 73n19, 81–82, 96–97
McCabe, Patricia (Estrada), 24, 28
McCartney, Paul, 323
McDaniel, Becky (Moler), 172, 177, 180
McFarlin Auditorium, SMU (Dallas), 120, 180, 199–200, 201, 207, 226
Menon, Sundaresh, 271, 272, 274, 275
Middlemiss, Basil, 306–14
Miers, Harriet, 245, 260, 263
Milton, John, 228
Mission Étrangères, 310
Moler, Becky. See McDaniel, Becky (Moler)
Monty Python (comedy troupe), 79, 307, 311
Morgan, Piers, 181, 182, 183–85
Morning Joe, 181
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 104, 136, 137, 269, 281
Mr. Magoo, 143–44, 145
MSNBC, 181
musical talent, Scalia’s, 1–2, 112–13, 324
Nabokov, Vladimir, 117
National Public Radio, 160, 187
National Review, 65, 153
National University of Singapore, 241, 270, 278–79
natural law, 205, 278–79
Newman, Jeff, 30, 46, 51, 86, 172, 180
Newport, Rhode Island, 138
New Republic, 195
Newseum (Washington, D.C.), 207
Newsweek, 107n28
New York City, 98, 220, 253
New Yorker, 18n11, 38, 65, 78, 130n
New York Times, 23, 73n20, 161, 162
“Nino,” as nickname, 32, 319, 330
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 191, 221, 223n
Nixon, Richard M., 183, 236
North Attleboro, Massachusetts, 93, 138
“Nothing Is Easy” (Jethro Tull), 323
Obama, Barack, 119
Obamacare (Affordable Care Act), 173, 174, 176, 302
Obelisk (Washington, D.C.), 209, 211
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 34, 155, 156, 269
opera, 96, 112, 125–27, 194–95
oral arguments in the Supreme Court, 173–76
Orators and Oratory (Cicero), 40
originalism, 162–64, 166–67, 193–94, 279, 301–2, 317
Originalist, The, 230–31
Orr, P. A., 102–3
Outer Banks, 67, 98, 150, 166, 171
outlining, 26–27
Oxford Companion to the U.S. Supreme Court, 12, 137
Oxford English Dictionary, The, i, 7, 37, 326
Oxford Law Dictionary, The, 7, 8, 9
Oxford University, 162
Oxford University Press, 7
Palin, Michael, 311
Palo Duro Canyon, 69
parentheticals, “genius” and “dummy,” 22–23
Partridge, Eric, 16
PBS, 187, 188
PBS News Hour, 188
Peer Gynt (Grieg), ix, 1
Pendarvis, David, 108
Pendarvis, Marty, 108
Peranakan (ceramics), 271
Perry, Rick, 216, 217
Petteway, Steve, 68, 216
Pfeiffer, Michelle, 118
Phang, Andrew, 277
Piers Morgan Tonight, 181–85
PIO. See Public Information Office
Plume (Washington, D.C.), 138, 173
Plutarch, 133
Polo, Marco, 289
Polverino, Sam, 141
Pomona College, 52
Posner, Richard A., 12, 164, 195–96, 227
Pound, Roscoe, 15
Powell, Lewis F., 155
prescriptivism, xi, 14, 15, 165
Presidents, U.S. See U.S. Presidents
Press, Bill, 118
pronunciation, 122, 184, 217
Providence Journal, 149
Pryor, William H., Jr., 223n
Psychopathology of Everyday Life, The (Freud), 145
Pub
lic Information Office (Supreme Court), 23, 81, 84, 149, 181, 207
Puccini, Giacomo, 112
Pufendorf, Samuel, 228
purposivism vs. textualism, 300, 302, 315
Quack This Way (Garner & Wallace), 11n
Quayle, Dan, 8
Queens, New York, 88, 89, 133, 219–20
Quintilian, 40, 82, 91
Radin, Max, 177
Rampal, Jean-Pierre, 136, 137
Reading Law (Scalia & Garner),
audience questions, 193–94
cadenza analogy, 136–37
canons of construction. See canons of construction
cited by courts, 217
completion, 166–67
consequentialism, 193
core principle, 134
criticisms of Scalia worked through, 135–36
deadline, 166, 179–80
dust-jacket blurb by Laurence Tribe, 175
floodwater case (James), 155–56
Garner’s response to Posner J., 196
identifying writing judges, 135–36
introducing block quotations, 158–59
James v. United States, 155–56
Meade F. Griffin citation, 235–36
opener left on cutting-room floor, 136–37
originalism, 193–94
originalism, renaming, 162–65
Posner J.’s book review, 195–96
presentations, 188, 191–94, 196–97, 201, 205–7, 272, 275–77
production protocol, 172–73
proposal, rejected and accepted, 94, 128–32
publicity, 181–86, 187–88
purposivism, 193
quizzes and prizes, 223
schism threatens collaboration, 162–65
second edition, 160, 187, 202, 212, 216, 243, 244, 248, 251, 269, 327, 340
selecting cases, 172–73
structuring the book, 134
textualism, 193–94
writing grind, 134–37
Reagan, Ronald, 20, 121, 191, 217
Reavley, Thomas M., 63, 156, 223n, 275
Recollections (Bokhary), 300
Redmond, Alissa, 281, 283, 284, 300, 304, 334, 335
reductio ad absurdum, 2, 176
Rehnquist, William H., 10, 28, 155, 204–5, 332
Rhetoric (Aristotle), 30, 35
Rhode Island Legislature, 139
Ribeiro, Roberto, 315
Ricks, Sir Christopher, 155, 316
Ristorante La Perla of Washington (Washington, D.C.), 209, 211, 212
Ristorante Tosca (Washington, D.C.). See Tosca (Washington, D.C.)
Roberts, John, 20, 33, 44, 84, 176, 188, 214
Roberts, Jon A., 188
Robinson, Spottswood, 21
Rolling Stone, 78
Roosevelt, Theodore, 34
Root, Elihu, 177–78
Rose, Charlie, 90, 187, 188
Rosecliff Mansion, 138, 149, 150, 151, 152
Rosen, Joshua, 219
Rosenthal, Albert, 229
Rosenthal, Max, 229
Rubin, Alvin, 21
Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States, 9, 19
Sager, Larry, 109, 110
same-sex marriage case (Obergefell), 235, 274, 279
Scalia, Christopher, 18, 32, 140
Scalia, Eugene, 75
Scalia, Maureen, 3, 32, 52, 56, 57, 58, 75, 82, 84, 85, 106, 108, 109, 110, 116, 126, 129, 130, 150, 160, 167, 170, 173, 181, 185, 191, 199, 203, 210, 211, 248, 250, 251, 271, 278, 291, 293, 295, 296, 323, 329, 331–32, 333, 335, 336, 339
Scalianism, 2n
“Scalia’s Close Friend Tells Us Why the Justice Is Such a ‘Famous Curmudgeon’ ” (Fuchs), 198–99
Schoenbaum, Samuel, 134
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 60
Scribes (American Society of Legal Writers), 98, 100
Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, 73n20
Scribes Lifetime Achievement Award, 98–104, 117
semantics, 201–2, 344
Senate Judiciary Committee, 317
Serafinowicz, Peter, 299
701 Restaurant (Washington, D.C.), 233, 235
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 36, 195, 207, 223n
Shakespeare, William, 126, 132–34, 169, 179, 198, 228, 303–4, 320–21
Shakespeare’s Lives (Schoenbaum), 134
Shapiro, Fred, 301n57
Shatner, William, 118
Shaw, George Bernard, 5
Shearer, Jack, 118
Shore, Alan, 118
Simon, John, 153–54
Singapore, 241, 246, 264, 268, 269–79, 280, 287, 288, 289, 331, 340
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, 221, 223n
60 Minutes, 85, 88–90
60% rule, 308, 320
skeet-shooting, 231, 232, 233
Smith, F. E. (Earl of Birkenhead), 85–86
snoots and snootitude, xi, xv, 18, 22, 25, 26, 27, 37, 52, 54, 69, 104, 125, 153, 179, 226, 234, 246, 325, 342, 347
Snow, C. P., 5
Socrates, 133
Sokolow, David, 109
sortilege, 321–22, 326
Sotomayor, Sonia, 119
Souter, David, 26, 33, 72–74, 119
Southern Methodist University (SMU), 120, 180, 199–200, 204–5, 226
Soviet Union, 213
Spader, James, 118
Spaeth, Merrie, 88, 89
Stahl, Lesley, 85, 89, 182
State Bar of Texas, 106, 117, 120–22, 135, 218
stay-of-execution request, 277–78
Stephen (HSBC lion), 309
Stevens, John Paul, 9, 33, 34, 99, 134, 136, 155, 156, 318
Stevens, Mary Irene, 143
Stevenson, Frank, 90, 218
Stitt (HSBC lion), 309
Stone, Judd, ii, 349
Strauss, Richard, 126
Strauss, Robert, 7, 8
Streeter, Ruth, 85, 89
Supreme Court Historical Society, 197, 207
Supreme Court of Arizona, 223n
Supreme Court of Singapore, 241, 272, 274, 275, 277
Supreme Court of Texas, 38, 168, 216–17, 223n, 245, 263
Supreme Court Style Committee, 19
Sushi Taro (Washington, D.C.), 173, 185
Suter, William, 174, 175, 203, 204, 214, 216
Sutton, Jeffrey S., 221, 223n, 244
Taft, William Howard, 24
tailoring, 240, 241–43, 284–85, 327–28
Tan, Tony, 274
Taney, Roger B., 228–29
“teaching against the class,” 2, 111, 176, 219, 344
tennis, 169–70, 251, 253, 286, 298, 299, 340
Tenorio, Ralph, 249, 254, 259, 264, 338
“Tense Present” (Wallace), xi, xv
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, ii, 79, 221, 223n
Texas House of Representatives, 217
Texas Lawbook, 206
Texas Law Review banquet, 106, 108, 113–15
Texas Monthly, 96
Texas/Oxford Center for Legal Lexicography, 7, 8
Texas Supreme Court, 38, 168, 216–17, 223n, 245, 263
Texas Tech School of Law, 93
textualism, 99–100, 128–30, 146, 147–48, 156, 159, 193–94, 197–98, 224–25, 227, 229, 269, 279, 300, 315, 316–18, 342–43, 344
Thomas, Clarence, 33, 82, 160
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 266–67
Thomson Reuters, 240, 241, 272, 280, 327, 330
Thomson/West, 94, 181, 187
Tietjen, Randall, 152
Tietjen, Susan, 152
Time, 78
Tolkien, J. R. R., 78
“Too Many People” (McCartney), 323–24
Tosca (Hong Kong), 326
Tosca (Washington, D.C.), 32, 41, 42, 56, 69, 82, 93, 131, 173, 209
Totenberg, Nina, 187, 214
Tribe, Laurence, 175
Trimble, John, 77, 83, 350
Trinity University, 245, 249, 253, 254
Trump, Donald, 299
Turner, Eliot, 172
turtles all the way down, 17, 314
Tushnet, Mark, 135
Two Foscari, The (Verdi), 194
“uncle,” 168, 198, 227, 291, 292, 296, 297, 321, 341
Uncle Antonino, 53, 319
Union League Club (Chicago), 34, 208
United States Reports, 17, 24, 39, 101
University of California at Berkeley, 177
University of Hong Kong, 241, 280, 285, 315–18, 319
University of Texas, 109–11
University of Virginia, 102
U.S. Constitution,
amending, 343
“Changing Constitution,” 202
compared with Soviet constitution, 213
Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause, 317
“dead, dead, dead,” 201, 202, 205–6
death penalty, 318
Equal Protection Clause, 279
Fifth Amendment, 317
First Amendment, 301–2
Fourteenth Amendment, 317
Fourth Amendment, 213
“Living Constitution,” 167, 188, 201–2, 344
Nineteenth Amendment, 279
Second Amendment, 99–100, 110, 206, 261
separation-of-powers doctrine, 148
U.S. Judicial Conference, 9
U.S. Presidents:
Bush, George H. W., 331
Bush, George W., 263
Ford, Gerald, 258
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 26
Kennedy, John F., 8
Lincoln, Abraham, 34, 121
Nixon, Richard M., 183, 236
Obama, Barack, 119
Reagan, Ronald, 20, 121, 191, 217
Roosevelt, Theodore, 34
Taft, William Howard, 24
Trump, Donald, 299
Washington, George, 34, 148
U.S. Supreme Court Bar swearing-in ceremony, 203–4, 214–15
U.S. Supreme Court justices:
Alito, Samuel, 33, 63, 214
Black, Hugo, 188
Blackmun, Harry A., 26, 155, 318
Brennan, William J., 155, 318
Breyer, Stephen, 33, 315
Burger, Warren, 143–44, 145, 155, 191, 318
Douglas, William O., 201
Field, Stephen J., 34
Frankfurter, Felix, 135
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 9, 18, 22, 26, 33, 42, 44, 117–18, 124, 125–26, 215, 315
Gorsuch, Neil M., 79–80, 221, 222
Harlan, John Marshall, II, 101
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 4, 101, 192, 301
Jackson, Robert H., 101
Kennedy, Anthony, 17, 33, 191, 195
Marshall, John, 101, 228, 235
Marshall, Thurgood, 136, 155, 156, 318, 332
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 34, 155, 156, 269
Powell, Lewis F., 155
Rehnquist, William H., 10, 28, 155, 204–5, 332
Roberts, John, 20, 33, 44, 84, 176, 188, 214
Sotomayor, Sonia, 119
Souter, David, 26, 33, 72–74, 119
Stevens, John Paul, 9, 33, 34, 99, 134, 136, 155, 156, 318
Taft, William Howard, 24
Taney, Roger B., 228–29
Thomas, Clarence, 33, 82, 160