This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

And today we have a final thoughts for you, and this can be a eulogy, a remembrance of someone important in your lives or an American people. And today we have a final thoughts for you, and this can be a eulogy, a remembrance

of someone important in your lives or an American life who died. This week's final thoughts feature

comes from Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Honoring someone you might not expect, someone

completely unlike her, at least as it relates to the law,

but completely like her in this sense.

Well, they're human beings, who loved other human beings and being with them,

that person she honored is the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,

someone that she hunted with.

In fact, he taught her at a hunt.

And the occasion of Justice Kagan speaking about Justice Scalia was the dedication of George Mason University's law school in his name.

Let's drop in and take a listen.

I'm deeply honored to participate in this dedication of the Antonin Scalia Law School.

Although I have to admit, the name strikes me as a little bit formal.

I'm wondering if I can substitute the word, Dino.

It's so fitting, it's so right, that a fine law school like this one should bear Justice Scalia's name.

One reason that's true, the obvious reason, I suppose, has to do with what Justice Scalia

accomplished during his time on the bench. He'll go down in history as one of the most important

Supreme Court justices ever, and also one of the greatest. His articulation of textualist and originalist principles

communicated in that distinctive, extraordinary prose did nothing less than transform our legal culture.

It changed the way almost all judges, and so almost all lawyers think and talk about the law,

even if they part ways at one or another point from his interpretive theories. In reading a statute,

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