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Gift or Gotcha: What to Make of Scalia's Arizona Opinion

Janai S. Nelson | Posted 06.18.2013 | Politics
Janai S. Nelson

In an age of expanding constraints on registration and voting that include voter ID laws, limited early voting, and curtailed registration drives, Scalia's unexpected warmth toward the Elections Clause just might be the gift that keeps on giving.

Jason Linkins

Antonin Scalia Don't Know Much About Biology

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.14.2013 | Politics

This morning the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., a fairly interesting case in whi...

That's Not What I Meant!

Radley Balko | Posted 06.11.2013 | Politics

Over at the New York Times, Adam Liptak interviews the Innocence Project's Peter Neufeld, who is none too pleased at the way Supreme Court Justice Ant...

Scalia, Liberals Find Common Ground

Salon | Posted 06.06.2013 | Politics

Antonin Scalia, for various reasons, is not the left’s favorite Supreme Court justice. ...

Maryland v. King and the Total Loss of Our Bodily Integrity

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.04.2013 | Politics
John W. Whitehead

Now, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court's devastating decision in Maryland v. King, you can add invasive DNA sampling to the list of abuses being "legally" meted out on the long-suffering American populace.

Scalia Pens Fiery Dissent Joining With Liberals

Reuters | Posted 06.04.2013 | Politics

By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - Justice Antonin Scalia can seem among the most predictable of the nine U.S. Supreme Co...

Broccoli Is Your Best Bet In Rudy Baylor's ObamaCare Marketplace

Amy Dardashtian | Posted 05.30.2013 | Politics
Amy Dardashtian

Right now, in every state across America, teams of people are building websites that will change the health care landscape in this country. These "Health Insurance Exchanges" will offer Americans government-run health insurance plans.

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 06.19.2013 | 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 06.17.2013 | 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 06.01.2013 | 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 05.29.2013 | 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 05.28.2013 | 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 05.28.2013 | 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 05.27.2013 | 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 05.27.2013 | 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'...