Scalia法官在美國聯邦最高法院任內，以文本主義 (textualism)作為其法律解釋的方法，強調司法應依一體適 用的規則為法律判斷，反對涉及個人主觀價值的裁判。其認 為權力分立觀點下，法官如果使用個人主觀的價值觀進行法 律解釋，可能混淆其個人主觀傾向與立法機關本於民主正當 *臺灣臺東地方法院法官，聖路易華盛頓大學訪問學者。

Among U.S. Supreme Court justices, Justice Scalia persistently had espoused and explained his judicial philosophy and approaches to statutory interpretation. He offers a powerful critique of the dichotomy between "general rule of law" and "personal discretion to do justice". For the reason of separation of powers, in Justice Scalia’s view, judges who use their own values to define the meaning of statutes may run the risk to confuse their own policy preferences with those of the elected representatives who authorized the legislation in a democracy. In his textualism argument, the court should look for an Judge of Taiwan Taitung District Court, Visiting Scholar in Washington University in St. Louis.