Scalia Misquoted On Brown v. Board Of Education (CORRECTED)
CORRECTION: An item posted here -- reporting that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if he were on the court in 1954, he would have dissen...
CORRECTION: An item posted here -- reporting that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if he were on the court in 1954, he would have dissen...
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Justice Scalia takes umbrage at the suggestion that an eight-foot-high Christian cross, erected as a memorial to soldiers killed in military service, violates the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
Posted 10.06.2009 | Impact
Supreme Court justices weighed arguments over a 10-year federal law that bans the creation and sale of commercially available videos that depict graph...
Robert Creamer | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that convicted inmates do not have the constitutional right to DNA testing, even though it could, as Justice Stevens said in his dissent, "ascertain the truth once and for all."
Ian Millhiser | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
Lacking sufficient resources to monitor thousands of medical devices on their own, the FDA relies on the medical device industry itself to disclose potential problems in the devices it regulates.
Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
In two virulent dissents, Justice Scalia made it clear that, in his view, sex discrimination is not only permitted by the Constitution, but is very much in society's interest.
Peter Scheer | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
Legitimacy, the most valuable asset of any court, is diminished by judicial secrecy and enhanced by openness. Justices of the US Supreme Court, take note.
Legal Times | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
Where others fear to tread, a 20-year-old college student from Tequesta, Fla.,boldly stepped forward Tuesday to ask Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scal...
Doug Kendall | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green
Where you stand often determines where you sit. If that maxim holds true, the Supreme Court is likely to divide sharply along ideological lines in th...
Josh Horwitz | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
The Roberts Court might not just be moving in the wrong direction, but in a direction that presents a direct threat to the rule of law and our very democracy.
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Most criticism of the Supreme Court's recent decisions comes off as whining about the fact that the Court decided against one's side, with zero appreciation of the fact that at least there's a relatively fair system.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
If the Bush administration releases the fourth amendment that it is currently holding hostage, I'm happy to consider the Supreme Court decision on the second amendment final and decisive.
236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
With Antonin Scalia plugging his new book on 60 Minutes and telling people still pissed off about the Court appointing a president to "get over it," P...
Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics