Bishop Ricken recalls Scalia's Green Bay visit

GREEN BAY — Hundreds of people filled St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Sunday afternoon, just as they did in October 2010 when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was in attendance at the invitation of Bishop David Ricken.

"It was so nice to have him around," said Ricken. "It was like talking to anybody, so I got to know him pretty well. We aren't friends or anything, but I got to know him pretty well."

Bishop Ricken first met Scalia in 2003 or 2004. Both were in Rome to see the Pope.

"He was so friendly and approachable," said Ricken. "I couldn't believe it, just a real down to earth man."

Ricken invited Scalia to Green Bay for the inaugural "Red Mass", marking the beginning of Northeast Wisconsin's St. Thomas More Society, a professional group for lawyers.

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The Scalia quote

It is an assertion of judicial supremacy over the people’s Representatives in Congress and the Executive. It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere “primary” in its role. This image of the Court would have been unrecognizable to those who wrote and ratified our national charter.

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It is an assertion of judicial supremacy over the people’s Representatives in Congress and the Executive. It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere `primary’ in its role.

- Justice Antonin Scalia

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