Although Justice Antonin Scalia succeeded in many ways in moving the U.S. Supreme Court in a conservative direction, he also failed in some of his most important quests.
Scalia, for example, never could persuade a majority of his colleagues to embrace his originalist approach to interpreting the Constitution—and his belief that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted and can be changed only by amendment. In many cases, most notably in finding a constitutional right to marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges, the court expressly rejected originalism and embraced the idea of a living Constitution whose meaning evolves by interpretation.
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