Abstract
The paper analyses the comic opera in one act SCALIA/GINSBURG by Wang that premiered in 2015 at the Castleton Festival. Its subject is the real-life friendship and the fights in the court between two of the most famous judges of the US Federal Supreme Court. They embodied two opposite views on society, law and especially constitutional interpretation. While Justice Scalia was conservative and believed that the meaning of the Constitution should be what reasonable persons living at the time of its adoption would have declared the ordinary meaning of the text to be (originalism), Justice Ginsburg is liberal and supports the view that its meaning should evolve with the times. By examining the libretto, the article focuses on some famous and controversial decisions of the US Federal Supreme Court that show the divergent views of Scalia and Ginsburg.
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