Word: antonin
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Supreme Court's devolution of power from the federal government to the states continued today when justices struck down the portion of the Brady Law requiring local police to perform background checks. Writing for the majority in the 5-4 vote, Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the federal government cannot command state officials to enforce federal regulatory programs: "Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty." While the ruling sets an important precedent in the Court's continued shifting of power to the states, it's likely to have little impact...
Clearly, the judges had done their homework. The most-wired-Justice award went to Antonin Scalia, who pointed out that technology is changing so rapidly that what's unconstitutional today might be constitutional next week. Said Scalia: "I throw away my computer every five years." At another point, when Ennis was arguing that parents should chaperone their kids online, Scalia cracked, "If I had to be present whenever my 16-year-old is on the Internet, I would know less about this case than I know today...
...hundreds of ongoing environmental disputes nationwide. It came as a defeat for the Clinton administration, which until now had been successful in lower court decisions seeking a "one-way" interpretation of the law, in which only environmentalists could use the act to sue for greater protection of wildlife. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the court opinion that the Endangered Species Act's citizen-suit provision should allow people to sue the government for overprotection as well. In the 1992 case before the court, cattle ranchers and farmers in Oregon had sued to recover some $75 million in damages after...
Further complicating the case are some unusual court dynamics. The most conservative Justices, like Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who may be least warmly inclined toward this particular President, have been the most philosophically committed to a strong presidency. More liberal members, who are more open to the general idea of allowing a President to be sued, may have more sympathy for this President, who elevated two of them to the bench. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be in the toughest position of all. As a former women's-rights litigator and a Supreme...
...preparations for his upcoming second term inauguration, President Clinton instead found his focus turned toward the Supreme Court building. There, justices aggressively questioned attorneys for both Clinton and Paula Jones as they heard arguments over whether or not Clinton should be allowed to delay Jones' sexual harassment suit. Justice Antonin Scalia challenged the assertion of Clinton attorney Robert Bennett that the President was too busy to defend himself, telling Bennett: "The notion that he doesn't have a minute to spare is not credible." But Scalia seemed sympathetic to the heart of Bennett's argument: that under the Constitution...