antonin scalia

CNN just reported that Antonin Scalia is dead.

Scalia today in the affirmative action hearing: Mother Jones: Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at "Slower" Colleges LA Times op ed: No, Scalia's comment about 'less-advanced' schools wasn't racist Essentially Scalia put his foot in his mouth assuming affirmative action used to keep...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/antonin-scalia-blunder-unprecedented-epa "Scalia's blunder unprecedented". Legally speaking, this is a few orders of magnitude over my pay grade. Those of you who follow SCOTUS, what do you think?

The following justices on the United States Supreme Court are "getting up there" in age: Ginsburg, Breyer, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy. Justice Ginsburg is 79 an has been treated for pancreatic cancer. Justices Scalia and Kennedy are 76. Justice Breyer is 74. Justice Thomas is 64. Justice...

Temporary stay granted for Texas death row inmate

As many now know, the US Supreme Court issued a stay of video streaming of a trial in California pertaining to gay marriage. Read the document here. After reading this, I had a strong feeling of deja vu. It reminded me a lot of the abortion decisions, Bush v. Gore. (The Bush v. Gore...

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/146308 :jaw-dropp

Fortunately Scalia and Thomas do not echo the majority opinion on the Supreme Court at the moment. Supreme Court Orders New Look at Death Row Case So here's a not so unusual case of a man convicted of a serious crime, in this case one that got the death penalty, without any physical evidence...

On October 2, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the first cases of the new term, Gall v. United States. At issue is a decision by an federal judge in Iowa to give a reduced sentence to a felon who had demonstrated that he had rehabilitated himself. One of the ways...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin "Hang 'Em High" Scalia cites his Christian faith as a reason to be completely unconcerned about the possibility of the U.S. Justice system incorrectly executing an innocent person. As the state of Georgia prepares to murder a man for a crime it cannot be...

This story from AP and Yahoo reports that some members of the Supreme Court are "defending" their actions in the decisions in Bush vs. Gore. As of this writing, there has never been a coherent defense of the Court's granting of the stay and subsequently awarding the election to Bush. There has...

Article here.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3169378 ...full article It seems that there are many many things that would have to be abolished if Scalia's interpretation of the constitution were the norm.

Scalia apparently thinks it is the government business whether he and his wife have oral or anal sex but he won't tell whether they have. http://nobodysbusiness.typepad.com/nobodys_business/2005/04/how_emdoesem_ju.html

In the death penalty case decided today, there is an interesting concurring opinion by Justice Stevens, joined by Justice Ginsburg. First, a little background. At issue was the effect of the Eighth Amendment (prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment) to minors, and in particular, whether the...

Justice Scalia was giving a speech on the meaning of the Constitution, when a rather odd event occurred. From USA Today and AP: Did Justice Scalia give advance warning that his comments should not be recorded? At Presbyterian Christian High School, he did not: Well, perhaps he has forbidden...

Scalia-Cheney Trip Raises Eyebrows Why, I would NEVER question Scalia's impartiality! Ya, sure, ya betcha! But perhaps the ducks were too smart for them: I guess he can't tell the difference between duck and crow.

C-SPAN, the cable television network popular with political junkies and insomniacs, is outraged that the City Club of Cleveland has banned broadcast media from covering today's speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Especially galling, says C-SPAN, is that Scalia is coming to the...