Antonin Scalia Time Quotations

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.