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26 Oct 2010, 1:32 am by Mike
 The ABA Journal reports: According to [Justice John Paul] Stevens, [Justice Antonin] Scalia said the Eighth Amendment does not require the punishment to fit the crime. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 2:56 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Alexis Levinson reports in the Daily Caller, "According to two witnesses, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took fellow Justice Elena Kagan out for a lesson in skeet shooting at his shooting club in Virginia last week. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 2:23 pm by Elie Mystal
[Law Shucks]* As I tried to explain on Twitter, going shooting with Antonin Scalia sounds like a bad idea if you are a new, liberal justice. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 7:16 am by David Oscar Markus
Seriously:According to two witnesses, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took fellow Justice Elena Kagan out for a lesson in skeet shooting at his shooting club in Virginia last week.The witnesses saw Scalia at the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club, where he is a member, around noon on Wednesday of last week. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 11:42 am by Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto
As if that weren’t enough to breed corruption, Thomas was the only justice — in a rare case of detaching his hip from Antonin Scalia’s — to write a separate opinion calling for an end to donor disclosures. - Garry J. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 1:18 pm by Lyle Denniston
” Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel A. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 7:17 pm by tjsllibrary
As its starting point, scholars from different disciplines discuss the textualist approach presented here by American Supreme Court Judge and academic scholar, Justice Antonin Scalia, not only from the perspective of law but also from that of theology. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 5:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
With many federal statutes failing to provide a clear statement of mens rea, or having a weak mens rea statement that fails to account for the importance of knowing the illegality of the conduct, it is important to provide a default mens rea that would require proof that the accused knew his or her conduct was illegal.Another interesting suggestion was to codify the "rule of lenity," As described by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, "This venerable rule not only… [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 10:29 am by doug
Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his precise reading of enacted laws, honed in on the exact language of the statute and asked where the law says that deductions can be taken in the “amount specified if applicable. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 6:39 am by James Bickford
  Previous lecturers have included Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas; the video of Justice Alito’s lecture is here. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 9:12 am by John Elwood
” * * * * * The better course, Alito said, is to follow the example of more experienced justices like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and the recently retired John Paul Stevens. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 6:41 am by Steve Hall
”Many who oppose the death penalty have taken Justice Scalia’s statement as a challenge, and argue that the Willingham case is their proof. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 9:08 am by Steve Hall
Skinner should not be able to sue Switzer to get the DNA, he said, because the DA is simply carrying out the law passed by the Texas Legislature.In the courtroom, Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether the high court ought to intervene in the Texas courts’ interpretation of state DNA testing laws. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 9:45 am by Steve Hall
The stay, issued Friday afternoon by Justice Antonin Scalia, gives Bradford's lawyers more time to file a full appeal on the constitutional issues surrounding his conviction and sentence. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 9:34 am by Steve Hall
That's the view espoused most of all by Justice Antonin Scalia that the Constitution is frozen in time, and its original words and meaning hold the answers even to the most modern disputes that the founders could not have imagined.The approach Breyer advocates to interpreting the Constitution, he hopes, will serve as "an antidote to originalism," which he says "is not, in my view, a workable approach. [read post]