Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously doesn’t like to be around cameras and microphones. Last April, for example, a reporter’s tape was seized by a U.S. Marshal and erased after she had recorded a speech the Justice had delivered in Mississippi. But today, the cameras and tape recorders were rolling, as Scalia spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Canter in Washington.

In the speech, Scalia lamented the encroachment of politics onto federal benches from both sides of the political divide. Reminding his audience that he was confirmed 98-0 despite his known conservative political views, he said that judges should be selected from among those who can best interpret the Constitution as it is written.

Hear an excerpt from Scalia’s speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar.

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking today at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC