The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Building on the apparent success of their first book, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner have signed up to write a second one, Garner has revealed to Legal Times. "It will be be every bit...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
"U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Antonin Scalia spoke at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Conference": You can view this past Saturday's broadcast of C-SPAN's "America & the Courts" by clicking here (RealPlayer required)....
Cato Unbound (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008 | US
Robert A. Levy, Cato Institute senior fellow in constitutional studies, was co-counsel to Mr. Heller in District of Columbia v. Heller , last month's controversial Supreme Court case in which Washington, D.C.'s ban on gun ownership was ruled unconstitutional on the basis of a Second Amendment individual right to possess firearms. But what does Heller really imply for the future of gun rights and gun...
U.Va. Law School News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Law School graduate Katherine Twomey ’08 has accepted a clerkship at the nation’s highest court.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Sun, 06/29/2008 - 10:26am. by Mark Karlin Editor and Publisher June 30, 2008 Antonin Scalia is Rush Limbaugh’s high I.Q. alter ego; in short, Nino is a partisan hack and fabulist. We once chastised Harry Reid for saying — after Rehnquist’s death and before Roberts’ nomination — that Scalia was so brilliant that he might make an okay Supreme Court Chief Justice, even if Reid disagrees with his decisions....
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
"Justice Antonin Scalia: Al Gore to blame for 2000 US election mess." This article appeared last Friday in The Telegraph (UK)....
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been receiving a lot of criticism around here lately, much of it deserved and some of it from me. I did not like the way he bent over backward in D.C. v. Heller to reassure gun control supporters that existing federal restrictions on firearms are not in danger. His position that the Second Amendment covers only weapons "in common use...for lawful purposes,"...
nogirliemen (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
That’s right, after the Supreme Court of the United States’ previous two scandalous rulings in recent weeks, SCOTUS finally got it right. Led by the world’s finest jurist, Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, the Court’s decision is a love letter to those who cherish “the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Keith Olbermann declared Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia the "Worst Person in the World" on the Thursday, June 26 edition of MSNBC's "Countdown." What got...
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Oh, Antonin Scalia, he with the Russian first name, is so stupid he thinks gun owners are smart and responsible, at least he said so in his opinion the other day, an opinion which struck down Washington DC gun laws. If Scalia were not so ideologically narrow he would understand that gun owners are sometimes whacked out, if not criminal.
Gun Guys (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
We haven't talked about gun suicides in awhile, but Mother Jones magazine brings up the issue in relation to the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding handgun "ownership" as an "individual right." Alas, the number of people killed in "self-defense" with a gun is dwarfed by the number of people who commit suicide with a firearm. [...]
The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
By Robert VerBruggen In discussions of last Thursday’s District of Columbia v. Heller ruling, Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion has, naturally, been front and center. But the two dissents are important as well. They show the four liberal justices’ complete willingness to subordinate the Constitution to their own policy preferences. Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen [...]
History Unfolding (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Having struck one blow for traditional American liberties last week, this week the Supreme Court, again by a 5-4 majority which once again cast Justice Anthony Kennedy in the role of Justice Owen Roberts in 1935-6, delivered, in the person of Antonin Scalia, one of the most extraordinary opinions it has ever handed down. Scalia (like Kennedy) is a Silent, not a Boomer, but the opinion is a piece of...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
A little light weekend reading on Scalia at The Existentialist Cowboy : Scalia's 'war on logic' is even older. In Bush v Gore, the 'decision that made no law', Scalia argued that 'continuing the recount' would be harmful to Bush. Well, I would hope so! That's the very purpose of elections. The candidate who gets the fewer number of votes is supposed to lose! Being a disingenuous, snake oil salesmen...
Plaisted Writes (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
The last month of the Supreme Court term presented the Court’s right-wing prima donna , Antonin Scalia, with two primary opportunities to show us all how smart he is and how stupid you are. Condescension, rather than logic or historical accuracy, is his primary method of "persuasion" – if that’s what you call being hit over the head with his self-proclaimed superior intellect. Scalia’s primary gift...
