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Scalia Accused Of Turning Into Advocate Against Obama

Posted 05.15.2012

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Scalia's tone this year, particularly in cases involving the Obama administration, is raising new criticism over the temperament of a justice who has ...

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How Roberts Orchestrated Citizens United

The New Yorker | Posted 05.14.2012

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When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest impo...

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Liberals Look For Conservative Supreme Court Allies On Health Care Law

ABC News | Ariane de Vogue | Posted 05.16.2012

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With less than two weeks to go before the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear six hours of oral arguments in the case challenging the constitutionality...

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Scalia, Thomas Dine With Health Care Law Challengers

The Los Angeles Times | James Oliphant | Posted 01.15.2012

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The day the Supreme Court gathered behind closed doors to consider the politically divisive question of whether it would hear a challenge to President...

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Justice Scalia, Originalism and the First Amendment

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 12.13.2011

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In a recent conversation at the Aspen Institute's 2011 Washington D.C.'s Ideas Forum, Justice Antonin Scalia offered some interesting observations about his theory of originalism and the meaning of the First Amendment.

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Walmart Scalia Thomas

Jeff Danziger | Posted 08.21.2011

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Justice Scalia, Not Kennedy, Eyed As Key Vote In Support Of Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Observers of the legal drama surrounding President Obama's health care reform legislation have reached two broad conclusions: that it wi...

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Equal Justice for Whom?

Patricia Ireland | Posted 05.25.2011

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Apparently the omission of corporations from the First Amendment does not trouble Justice Scalia as much as the failure to mention women in the Fourteenth. What's his problem with women?

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After Arizona, Reconsidering the Second Amendment

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Politics is more than a game, and that fine-sounding theories about "the blood of tyrants" can manifest as "the blood of nine-year-old girls" when troubled people take them too seriously.

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Scalia's Tyranny and the Madness of Power

Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Justice Scalia seems to have forgotten that the American Revolution was a revolution against tyranny of any kind -- not a revolution to install a tyranny of the majority.

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Michele Bachmann: Scalia Will Teach Constitution Class

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently said that she's planning to kick off her congressional constitutional education classes for incoming represen...

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Scalia Spars With Liberal Justice Over Death Penalty, Democratic Election

AP | BETSY BLANEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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LUBBOCK, Texas — One of the most conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court and one of the most liberal ones sparred Friday over capital pu...

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Are Progressives Fiddling While Rome Burns?

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

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If fall of 2008 was "silly season", then what does that make this election cycle? We are in a critical moment (yes, I know someone says that every ...

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What's Behind the "Honest Services" Decision?

James D. Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rarely do U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg on the left and Scalia and Thomas on the right agree on anything, but on Thursday they did.

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Eugene Scalia, Antonin Scalia: Father And Son Appear Divided Over Campaign Finance Law

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eugene Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, thinks the provisions drawn up in the DISCLOSE Act, the legislative response to the Suprem...

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Antonin Scalia Gives Sonia Sotomayor A Supreme Court Linguistics Lesson

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — It's not just what you say, but how you say it, Justice Antonin Scalia often advises lawyers. So when Justice Sonia Sotomayor was ...

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Scalia's "Textualism" Is Really "The Text According To Scalia"

Elizabeth B. Wydra | Posted 05.25.2011

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A close look at the Supreme Court's 8-1 decision this week in Hamilton v. Lanning -- with Scalia alone, dissenting -- lays bare the fundamental fallacy of his strict constructionist claims.

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Supreme Court Justices Breyer And Scalia Explain Their Opposing Views

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Justice Antonin Scalia tends to see things as black or white. Justice Stephen Breyer sees a lot more gray. When contentious decisi...

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New Yorkers On USSC

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Supreme Court: Where They Went To College (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harvard lays claim to the most Supreme Court justices -- five went there for law school. Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor both chose Princeton for the...

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Fearless Predictions for 2010 and Other Magical Thinking

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Friedman will realize that he's losing his success rate to the average stopped clock and retire to focus on writing non-political travel books. They will be very short. But somehow still turgid.

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6 Supreme Court Justices Attend Catholic Service Red Mass; Cardinal Pleads For Rights Of Unborn

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joe Bide...

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Blind Faith: Supreme Court Meltdown

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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If a Christian would not select a Star of David then why on earth would a Jew choose a cross? Yet that is exactly what Scalia proposes. The notion that the cross represents everybody is bizarre.

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Justice Scalia's Cross

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Scalia: Supreme Court Needs Justices With Varied Job Experiences

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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JACKSON, Miss. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he's concerned there aren't more people with varying professional backgrounds being n...

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