This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, February 19th, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

It would be ridiculous to call Anton and Scalia a Libertarian, but his focus on the text and original meaning of the

Constitution certainly was heartening to libertarians. Cato Institute Vice

President for Legal Affairs Roger Pallon discusses some of the good and bad of the late justice's jurisprudence.

Well Scalia was really a great guy, those of us who knew him personally.

I didn't know him all that well, but I ran into him from time to time and

invariably we'd get into a spirited discussion. The first time I met

Nino was in 1984. That's when Cato had its great conference on economic liberties

and the judiciary. Just a little background there.

I was in the Reagan administration at the time.

And I got together a year before, 1983,

with Ed Crane and Jim Dorn for lunch, with the idea

idea of pushing them to hold a conference on economic liberties in the judiciary,

something I'd been writing on for several years.

And on the back of a paper napkin I sketched out the conference and lo and behold,

Jim Dor and put it together a year later.

I spoke at the conference on the second panel right after the great debate between then

Judge Antonin and Scalia on the D.C. Circuit and Richard Epstein, the University of Chicago.

I'll never forget that because Scalia got up there first and gave his talk about judicial restraint and that sure

economic liberties are a great idea but they're not found expressly in the Constitution and therefore the court should defer to the political branches with respect to protection of economic liberties.

Epstein got up and he said, I threw away away all my notes I'm going to respond directly to

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