Scalia Accused Of Turning Into Advocate Against Obama
Scalia's tone this year, particularly in cases involving the Obama administration, is raising new criticism over the temperament of a justice who has ...
Scalia's tone this year, particularly in cases involving the Obama administration, is raising new criticism over the temperament of a justice who has ...
The New Yorker | Posted 05.14.2012
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...
ABC News | Ariane de Vogue | Posted 05.16.2012
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...
The Los Angeles Times | James Oliphant | Posted 01.15.2012
The day the Supreme Court gathered behind closed doors to consider the politically divisive question of whether it would hear a challenge to President...
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 12.13.2011
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.
Jeff Danziger | Posted 08.21.2011
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Observers of the legal drama surrounding President Obama's health care reform legislation have reached two broad conclusions: that it wi...
Patricia Ireland | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently said that she's planning to kick off her congressional constitutional education classes for incoming represen...
AP | BETSY BLANEY | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
James D. Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Eugene Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, thinks the provisions drawn up in the DISCLOSE Act, the legislative response to the Suprem...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
Elizabeth B. Wydra | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Justice Antonin Scalia tends to see things as black or white. Justice Stephen Breyer sees a lot more gray. When contentious decisi...
Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011
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Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
JACKSON, Miss. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he's concerned there aren't more people with varying professional backgrounds being n...
Posted 05.15.2012