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7 Jun 2010, 9:08 am
., Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas took exception to the Court’s use of legislative history in its interpretation of the statute.With this very narrow judgment the Court left open a series of important and niggling questions; for example:? [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 9:01 am
It would have been good to learn from then-Judge Antonin Scalia that and why he believed legislative history to be fatuous claptrap and just how his "originalism" and his view of the ossified Constitution might actually apply in the real world, both when he can live with the results and when he finds them too distasteful.It would have been good to learn from then-Judge Stephen Breyer that he believes that when there's a conflict between the language of… [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 8:52 am
"David Souter vs. the Antonin Scalias": Columnist E.J. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 9:36 pm
Here are the percentages who can name each of the nine current justices [HT: Josh Blackman]: * Clarence Thomas – 19% * John Roberts – 16% * Sonia Sotomayor – 15% * Ruth Bader Ginsburg – 13% * Antonin Scalia – 10% * Samuel Alito – 8% * John Paul Stevens – 8% * Anthony Kennedy – 6% * Stephen Breyer – 3% Clarence Thomas, the most widely known justice, is relatively more famous in large part because of the Anita Hill sexual… [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 8:52 am
Alito filed opinions concurring in the judgment, with Justice Antonin Scalia joining Thomas’s opinion. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 6:25 am
Joining Sotomayor in the majority opinion were Chief Justice John Roberts , and Justices John Paul Stevens , Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, and Antonin Scalia. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 1:12 pm
This time around five Justices, led by Antonin Scalia, determined that since the City has continued to use the discriminatory test since 1995, it would fall under the continuing violations doctrine. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 11:30 am
., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas each objected to Stevens’ reliance on the use of legislative history, so each wrote separately; all of them, however, supported the result — denying Samantar immunity under the 1976 law. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 11:09 am
Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice, Roman Catholic, supporter of the death penalty, believes the Church's opposition to the death penalty is due to the Church misunderstanding Catholic doctrine. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 8:42 am
., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 8:04 am
Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court in Alabama v. [read post]
31 May 2010, 5:09 pm
What this historical review makes clear is that the Ivy League dominance of the Supreme Court is a relatively recent occurrence whose beginnings can be traced to Antonin Scalia’s 1986 confirmation. [read post]
30 May 2010, 6:54 am
Anthony Lewis takes up American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by Joan Biskupic, and John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life by Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman, in the New York Review of Books. [read post]
28 May 2010, 12:59 pm
There are other sources we can look to as sources for change, including a vigorous line of Supreme Court dissents in key Fourth Amendment cases; jurisprudence in the states, many of which have rejected the Supreme Court’s approaches to privacy law; and the fact that both liberals and conservatives — including justices like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — have taken positions on privacy issues that suggests the possibility of broad coalitions in favor of… [read post]
28 May 2010, 7:14 am
Arlen Spector told Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan what he would question her about at a confirmation hearing next month, and current Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had nice words about the Kagan pick. [read post]
27 May 2010, 3:43 pm
The answer to this rhetoric comes from the Court’s great rhetorician, Justice Antonin Scalia. [read post]
27 May 2010, 8:51 am
Adler) Justice Antonin Scalia does not think Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s lack of judicial experience should disqualify her from the Supreme Court. [read post]
27 May 2010, 7:11 am
And David Gura at NPR, ABC News, and the Washington Post’s Robert Barnes all report on remarks last night by Justice Antonin Scalia, who indicated that in his view, Kagan’s lack of judicial experience is a positive rather than a negative. [read post]
27 May 2010, 3:23 am
To the extent that Elena Kagan was vulnerable to conservative arguments that she lacks judicial experience, the Supreme Court nominee recently received a big boost from Justice Antonin Scalia -- one of the Court's most conservative members. [read post]
26 May 2010, 8:53 am
This callousness about death-penalty cases is not limited to states like Texas — or to prosecutors.Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia set off a firestorm last summer when he wrote a dissent — joined by Justice Clarence Thomas — that the highest court in the land is not necessarily concerned with whether a person facing execution had actually committed the crime. [read post]
