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• Right and Left Join Forces on Criminal Justice

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Antonin Scalia Talks Sodomy

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 754
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• "Did any provision in the Constitution guarantee a right to homosexual sodomy?"

  
  Queerty — Authority: 728
  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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• Yes Justice Scalia, There Were Patents Relating To Training Horses in the 1890s; But More Importantly, We Need Them Today

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 743
  Charles R. Macedo is a partner at Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP , and the author of The Corporate Insider’s Guide to US Patent Practice , which provides a basic understanding of patent practice in the United States as it relates to both obtaining and enforcing patents. Macedo’s practice specializes in ...
  1 week ago

• OpEd Roundup - Texas Broken Criminal Justice System

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  " 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Federal Judge Runs Amok: Can Joe Bruno Get a Fair Trial?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Whether or not you think former New York Republican Senate Majority leader Joe Bruno, who reigned over Albany in a triumvirate of power for 27 years, is guilty or not, he has the right to a fair trial and an impartial Judge. It appears he is getting neither. Bruno has been indicted under the controversial ” ...
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• Letter: The Framers’ Intent

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
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• 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

• How Sweeping Are the ‘Global Warming’ Bills?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  So, now that we’ve opened this can, just how sweeping is the “global warming” bills’ curiously identical Sec. 707? At risk of getting into a peeing match which my time budget may not allow me to finish, I believe that the dispute between Ed Morrissey over at  Hot Air and the folks at the Washington ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quote o’ the Day (courtesy of Justice Scalia)

  
  Southern Appeal — Authority: 435
  This comes from a recent “ conversation ” between Justice Scalia and Justice Breyer hosted by the University of Arizona. The Justices were discussing the Constitutional interpretation; specifically the merits of originalism v. values-based interpretation.  Justice Scalia delivered this line after Justice Breyer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christianity and the Death Penalty-US Style.

  
  Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bilski Heard by Supreme Court; Hilarity Ensues

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 128
  Why should everybody care about the Bilski case that was just heard at the Supreme Court? Pending the result of this case, patent law and the dissemination of technical information may never be the same. The petitioner claims that the metric for developing a current patent is insufficient into cover the algorithms ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sidebar: From 19th-Century View, Desegregation Is a Test

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Justices Antonin Scalia, left, and Stephen G. Breyer have differing views of how the Constitution should be interpreted.
  2 weeks ago

• Supreme Court pushes back on mutual fund issue

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 654
  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

• Scalia Quips

  
  Paper Clips N' Potato Chips — Authority: 118
  As I mentioned briefly in my twitter feed over the past couple of days I have been reading over a lot of Justice Anthon Scalias Supreme Court opinions, because I am in the midst of what I can be describe as a judicial conversion, from a "living constitution" proponent to that of an "originalist", and Justice Scalia is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Berlin Lectures

  
  Interesting Times — Authority: 113
  The American Academy here in Berlin has seen fit to post a video of the entirety of Justice Scalia’s remarks , including the rather testy exchange with yours truly near the end (at around 58:30) that I mentioned in an earlier post . Also online is the lecture I gave last week (discharging my duty as a fellow ...
  4 weeks ago

• Judge David O carter, Obama not president, January 20, 2009, US Constitution, 20th Amendment, Joe Biden president, Obama not qualified, Chief Justice, John Roberts, US Supreme Court, Oath of office

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 576
  To: Judge David O. Carter All judges, congressmen, state election officials and citizens of the United States From: Citizen Wells On January 19, 2009 I posted the following article regarding the constitutional requirements to be sworn in as President of the United states, POTUS. There is much confusion about ...
  4 weeks ago

• Justice Scalia Thinks a Cross Is a Secular Symbol

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  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: 532
  [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

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