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Scalia Misquoted On Brown v. Board Of Education (CORRECTED)

Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Justice Scalia's Cross

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Geoffrey R. Stone

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.

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Justice Scalia Stands Up For "People Who Like Dogfighting"

Posted 10.06.2009 | Impact

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Supreme Court justices weighed arguments over a 10-year federal law that bans the creation and sale of commercially available videos that depict graph...

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Supreme Court DNA Ruling: Once Again Roberts Court Allows "Procedural" Issues to Trump Justice

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

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Robert Creamer

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."

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Setting Time Bombs in Our Chests: Our Unreliable FDA

Ian Millhiser | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

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Ian Millhiser

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.

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Why I Called Justice Scalia A Homophobe

Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Barney Frank

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.

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US Supreme Court Should Get Over Its Camera Allergy

Peter Scheer | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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Peter Scheer

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.

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Justice Scalia Lashes Out At Student Questioner

Legal Times | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Justice Scalia Needs to Find Nemo

Doug Kendall | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

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Doug Kendall

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...

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From the Ballot to the Bullet

Josh Horwitz | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

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Josh Horwitz

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.

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Stop Whining!

Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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Malcolm Friedberg

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.

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I'll Trade You the 2nd Amendment for the 4th

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

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.

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Justice Antonin Scalia: Quick Quiz

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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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...

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