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• Scalia says U. of C. has gone liberal

  
  Northwest Indiana Politics — Authority: 425
  Chicago Sun-Times Article On the eve of todays 221st anniversary of the U.S. Constitutions adoption, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told conservative lawyers in Chicago that the University of Chicago Law School — where he used to teach — has lost its edge and gone liberal. Back in the days when ...
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• Right and Left Join Forces on Criminal Justice

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 529
  Thats the title of Adam Liptaks report in todays New York Times.  LINK In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of peopleaccused of crimes involving drugs, sex and corruption. Civil libertiesgroups and associations of defense lawyers have lined up on ...
  6 days ago

• Antonin Scalia Talks Sodomy

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 752
  At an Ohio State lecture on interpreting the Constitution :  “My burden is not to show that originalism is perfect but to show thatit beats the other available alternatives. Did anyprovision of the Constitution guarantee a right to abortion? No onethought so for almost two centuries after the founding. Did ...
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• "Did any provision in the Constitution guarantee a right to homosexual sodomy?"

  
  Queerty — Authority: 711
  SOUNDBITES — "My burden is not to show that originalism is perfect but to show that it beats the other available alternatives. Did any provision of the Constitution guarantee a right to abortion? No one thought so for almost two centuries after the founding. Did any provision in the Constitution guarantee a right ...
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• OpEd Roundup - Texas Broken Criminal Justice System

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 529
  " Texans too quiet about their state’s broken justice system ," is the title of an OpEd by J. Todd Moye in the Sunday Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  Moye is a member of the Star-Telegrams 2009 Community Columnist Panel. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously dismissedconcerns about the death penalty in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Justice Scalia: "I Have Religious Views...They Have Nothing to Do with My Job"

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 807
  Filed under: Abortion , Supreme Court Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has never passed up the opportunity in abortion cases to remind his colleagues that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision continues to divide America. In a 2000 dissenting opinion, he chided such centrist conservatives as Sandra Day OConnor and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christianity and the Death Penalty-US Style.

  
  Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings — Authority: 112
  As I write this, John Allen Muhammed is awaiting death in a Virgina jail. He will be killed by lethal injection. He will be given a series of  three injections.  According to Wikipedia they are : 1  Sodium thiopental :  ultra-short action barbiturate, an anaesthetic agent capable of rendering the ...
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• Supreme Court pushes back on mutual fund issue

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 655
  Filed under: Scandals , Mutual funds , Headline news Investors are calling for an inquiry into mutual fund fees, but the Supreme Court is reminding them that it isnt beholden to public opinion. The mutual fund industry is being accused of charging "excessive" fees, which could be particularly harsh on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Justice Scalia Thinks a Cross Is a Secular Symbol

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Susan Jacoby in The Washington Post points out a largely overlooked exchange with Justice Antonin Scalia in that cross case heard by Supreme Court earlier this month. The case revolved around whether the government can keep a war memorial consisting of a solitary cross on public parkland. But while American Civil ...
  4 weeks ago

• How times change

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 139
  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has said that the Christian cross is a "universal" and not a particularly Christian symbol.  The issue concerns a five foot cross at the Mojave National Preserve which honors war dead from World War 1.  As he put it, "The cross is the most common symbol of the resting places of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Economy rebounds but Wall Street keeps stealing the ball

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 516
  [INSERT LYING GRAPH HERE] Lots of cheerleading for economic indicators in the papers this morning. Nothing that impacts you or I, so fuck the links. I’d be in a good mood this morning were it not for the recent construction trend in which the railroad workers put a vehicle into reverse, then sit there with their ...
  4 weeks ago

• Some liberals on U.S. Supreme court inventing rights

  
  Goodtimepolitics — Authority: 126
  One of the most conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday his more liberal colleagues are trying to manufacture new constitutional rights that were never intended by the drafters. “The fight is about the Supreme Court inventing new rights nobody ever thought existed,” Justice Antonin Scalia said ...
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• The Constitution, Scalia and the Myth of Originalism

  
  All About Race — Authority: 125
  There was quite a dust up on the liberal interwebs yesterday when it was wrongly reported that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had declared he would have dissented in the landmark ‘Brown vs Board of Education’ case. As you may know the ‘Brown vs Board of Education’ decision was unanimous and it ended ...
  4 weeks ago

• Justice Scalia Would Vote for Slavery and Segregation?

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 445
  Its one thing to be a conservative - its something wholly different to be a racist, sexist and anti-gay bigot who seeks to inject religion into the civil laws. Yet Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia clearly falls into the latter category based on his recent comments. I am truly wondering whether or not he is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Justice Antonin Scalia Would Have Voted “No” To End School Segregation

  
  Morninpaper — Authority: 447
  Appearance at the University of Arizona College of Law, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia let it be known that he would have most likely dissented from the Brown v. Board Of Education decision. That vote led to the abolishing of segregation in the American school system. A landmark victory for human kind ...
  4 weeks ago

• Justice Scalia comes clean on Brown v. Board of Education?

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 581
  Although Justice Antonin Scalia and I are both originalists, the two of us have quite different theories of original meaning. Scalia has always looked to how the public would have applied the words of the Constitution at the time of their enactment, whereas I argue that fidelity to original ... ACS Blog found this ...
  4 weeks ago

• Big surprise! Antonin Scalia says he would have dissented in Brown vs. Board of Education — HEADLINE WRONG, STORY CORRECTED BELOW

  
  Applesauce — Authority: 146
      (NOTICE: See UPDATE at the bottom of this post.) Golly whiz! I never could have predicted THIS :  In an appearance at the University of Arizona College of Law, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if he were on the court in 1954, he would have dissented in the landmark Brown vs. Board of ...
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• False Claim About Justice Scalia from Liberal Reporter: No, He Didn’t Say He Would Have Voted to Uphold Segregation

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 615
  Liberals are busy sending each other twitters falsely claiming that Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the more conservative members of the Supreme Court, said that he would have voted to uphold school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). There’s just one problem: he never said any such thing. He ...
  4 weeks ago

• Scalia Would Have Dissented in Brown v. Board

  
  Nuts & Boalts — Authority: 423
  You have to hand it to Antonin Scalia -- he clearly isnt trying to put a good face on originalism. Using his "originalist philosophy, Scalia said he likely would have dissented from the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared school segregation illegal and struck down the system of ...
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• Scalia Would Have Voted to Keep School Segregation

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 671
  By GottaLaff Supreme Court " Justice "? In an appearance at the University of Arizona, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia "said he likely would have dissented from the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared school segregation illegal and struck down the system of separate but ...
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