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The Most Pro-Business Supreme Court Since World War II

The New York Times | Posted 05.04.2013 | Politics

NOT long after 10 a.m. on March 27, a restless audience waited for the Supreme Court to hear arguments in the second of two historic cases involving s...

Antonin Scalia's Son 'An Absolute Bulldog'

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics

Perhaps the genes run in the family. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a household name in Washington, but his son Eugene Scalia is not too f...

Preventing a Mob

Richard J. Rosendall | Posted 04.25.2013 | Politics
Richard J. Rosendall

In the wake of a violent attack, it is easy to target minorities for group blame. With sufficient provocation, any crowd might turn into a mob.

Senate Votes to Preserve Fundamental Liberties

Steven Clifford | Posted 04.19.2013 | Comedy
Steven Clifford

In an historic vote yesterday, the Senate voted to safeguard a fundamental American liberty, the right to be killed.

Justice Scalia, "Originalism" and Homosexuality

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics
Geoffrey R. Stone

The same reasoning that leads Justice Scalia to conclude that the Framers' ignorance of cell phones and the Internet doesn't resolve questions about "the freedom of speech" should also lead him to the Framers' ignorance about the nature of sexual orientation. If one is going to be an "originalist," at least one should be consistent about it.

Justice Scalia's Latest 'Racial Entitlement' Remark

Spencer Overton | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics
Spencer Overton

Now comes word that on Monday night, Scalia told a group of students that the provision is an "embedded" form of "racial preferment." Even aside from improperly commenting on a pending case, Scalia is wrong.

Scalia: Voting Rights Act Is An 'Embedded' Form Of 'Racial Preferment'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Monday that the Voting Rights Act is an "embedded" form of "racial preferment," according to a report in The...

Scalia Forges Unlikely Alliance

Salon | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics

Last week, in Florida v. Jardines, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution requires police to get a warrant before they bring a drug dog to the f...

When Morality Left the Gay Marriage Debate

David Fontana | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics
David Fontana

The language that the Court used to talk about gay marriage this past week lacked the polarizing moral denunciations of homosexuality of the past. And the language the Court uses to debate national issues matters.

Scalia Motivation For Taking Gay Marriage Case Explored

The New York Times | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON – Why did the Supreme Court agree in December to hear a major same-sex marriage case and then seem to think it had made a terrible mistak...

Hear Ye Hear Ye, Justice Scalia: Voting Is a Right

Marc H. Morial | Posted 03.29.2013 | Black Voices
Marc H. Morial

The 2012 elections may long be over, but the conversations -- and actions -- that encouraged and enabled voter suppression measures across the country linger. But this time, the discourse isn't coming from partisan legislators. This time, it is coming from our highest court -- and it is indeed troubling.

MOCKED

Salon | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics

Marriage equality hangs in the balance while Supreme Court justices deliberate after oral arguments presented in the Defense of Marriage Act hearing e...

Spilled Milk: 5 Ways Gay Marriage Is Wrecking America (and Causing Global Warming)

William Lucas Walker | Posted 04.23.2013 | Comedy
William Lucas Walker

The undeniable, sharp and measurable uptick in global warming has come since 2004, in the nine years since marriage between gay people became legal in Massachusetts. Katrina anyone? Sandy? Melting ice caps? Rush Limbaugh's persistent sunburn? Real-world consequences.

SCOTUS Hearings on Gay Marriage Day Two: Good News, Bad News and Really Good News

Scott E. Squillace | Posted 03.28.2013 | Gay Voices
Scott E. Squillace

What is clear is that we are far from done with discussing these issues at the Supreme Court. The past two days' hearings made it clear in many ways that follow on litigation will come to sort out other questions for the Court to decide.

Cowards on the Court

Alan Singer | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics
Alan Singer

During preliminary questioning in Hollingsworth v. Perry, Sotomayer, Ginsburg, Kagan, and Breyer, the center-liberal wing on the Supreme Court, focused on whether the plaintiffs had legal standing.

Hey, SCOTUS, I'm Not Getting Any Younger

Domenick Scudera | Posted 03.27.2013 | Gay Voices
Domenick Scudera

Fifty years from now, the logic goes, people will look back at this time and this issue and will wonder what all the fuss was about. Well, 50 years from now I will be 98. I do not want to be a 98-year-old blushing bride. So here's my message to the Supreme Court.

Scalia Presents 'Spring Breakers' Quotes

The Huffington Post | Ross Luippold | Posted 03.27.2013 | Comedy

Today, the Supreme Court will give their opinion on the Defense of Marriage Act, and one player has made a name from himself throughout the proceeding...

Scalia Makes Awkward Reference

The Huffington Post | Lisa_Miller | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics

Justice Antonin Scalia made an awkward reference to former Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) during the Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 8, California'...

BOTH SIDES NOW: Are Gays and Women Winning the Culture War?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 03.24.2013 | Politics
HuffPost Radio

2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgArianna Huffington and Mary Matalin discuss the two greatest cultural shifts in our lifetimes -- women at work and gays in society. Are Sheryl Sandberg and Rob Portman inflection points? Goodbye to Buchanan and Scalia?

Ryan J. Reilly

102-Year-Old Voter 'Shocked' By Scalia's 'Racial Entitlement' Remark

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old voter who received a standing ovation at President Barack Obama's State of the Union address earlier t...

CPAC, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, and the Conservative Crack-Up

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics
Brent Budowsky

As long as the right keeps doing what it keeps doing, the great conservative crack-up will bring two big winners: Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.

The Republican Party's Anger Mismanagement

Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.17.2013 | Politics
Cliff Schecter

Policy-wise, the GOP is an entity that literally lacks any new ideas, has no interest in governing and has rejected all of its own policy positions from as recently as early 2008.

Scalia: Recuse or Resign

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics
Brent Budowsky

Scalia has a right to believe voting rights are a "perpetuation of racial entitlement" for blacks and Hispanics, but should promote this repellent and biased view on conservative talk radio, not the court.

Obama's Judicial Disaster

The New Yorker | Jeffrey Toobin | Posted 03.14.2013 | Politics

On the same day as Rand Paul’s celebrated filibuster against drone strikes last week, the Senate engaged in a less noticed but more typical form of ...

The Scalia Court and Voting Rights, Part 2

Doug Kendall | Posted 05.11.2013 | Politics
Doug Kendall

The efforts by state officials around the country to suppress the vote in the lead-up to the 2012 election were an outrage. But what's happening in the Supreme Court in 2013 could end up being even more significant.