And here we are. It is Ben Shapiro back on Monday.

The world did not end over the weekend, but it came really, really close to doing so, and we edge ever closer to the edge. In fact, I was actually going to start the show today by carrying around a sign and wearing a beard, and the sign would have said the end is near, and I just walk around on a street corner. That's basically the theme of today's show, so I hope you enjoy it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show. Show.

Tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings. basically the theme of today's show, so I hope you enjoy it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Tend to demonize people because don't care about your feelings.

The death of Anton and Scalia marks a really, really grave moment for the future of the country.

It's hard to believe that America and its future as a

constitutional republic rest on this shoulder of one man. But when it comes to the Supreme Court,

they basically did. Antonin Scalia's judicial philosophy was very simple. The Constitution says what

it says. It meant what it meant at the time it was written. Just like anything means what it means

at the time that it was written. It's not poetry. It's not fiction. It's just like any other law. This is Antonin Scalia idea. It's called originalism and textualism. The idea was you read the text. It means what it meant when it was written. And it's not the job of the court to apply its own morality into the text. You don't just take the text and read it

how you want to read it to achieve. As Scalia like to say, if you're a judge and you agree with every

result that you're ruling, if you agree with the result of the rulings that you make on every score,

you're not a good judge, you're a bad judge. And this is exactly correct. You're not a legislator.

You're a judge. And the job of a judge is not to overwhelm the Constitution with your own personal morality as all the leftist judges do. It's to interpret the Constitution

as it was written. Well, Justice Scalia was found dead about 2 o'clock in the afternoon

Pacific time on Saturday. I didn't find out about it until after Sabbath, so I come back and I get hit with that news. And it's brutal news because right now the Supreme Court is split five to four, really four to four. And Justice Kennedy, who was appointed by a Republican, he was appointed by Reagan, but Justice Kennedy decides how he's going to vote based on whether he had a solid bowel movement that morning. So he's all over the place. If he took his metamusal, he

votes correctly. If he didn't, then he votes incorrectly. Justice Kennedy is the guy who will

vote along with Justice Scalia as far as gun rights, but then we'll suggest that the Constitution

mandates same-sex marriage at the state level. Justice Kennedy was bad enough, but there were at least

four conservatives or four constitutionalists on the conservative side of the aisle, three, if you

don't count Justice Roberts, which I don't. So there were three, sometimes four, and maybe in rare

cases, sometimes five. Justice Scalia means that at best now, at best, in some cases, the so-called

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