Word: antonin
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...free speech, but his libertarianism extends to a degree favored most by arch-conservatives. Fried's support of capital punishment also makes us queasy. Weld called Fried "ballast to the right" and "a Scalia on the court." If there's anything we don't need it's another Justice Antonin Scalia, whose teaming with Justice Clarence Thomas has given a far-right tinge to Supreme Court opinions of late...
...approved suspicionless drug testing for high school athletes and forbade Congress to extend power over the states. What made all the difference is that Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, two perennial swing votes, swung regularly to the right. There they met up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the slash-and-burn conservatives. That the term also saw the further consolidation of a fairly reliable four-vote liberal block--John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer--is cold comfort to those four and their supporters. Unless they can attract...
...Supreme Court ruled that public schools can require athletes to undergo random drug testing, without establishing any suspicion that the students involved are abusing substances. The Court held that school athletes have a lesser expectation of privacy, so that testing them does not constitute an unreasonable search. Justice Antonin Scalia cautioned that the new ruling applied only to athletes, and should not be interpreted as condoning suspicionless searches regarding other students.TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohennotes that the justices did not divide along traditional lines in this ruling. "Justice O'Connor and Justice Souter, who are generally viewed as conservatives, strongly...
...California case upholding a 1977 law banning distribution of child pornography, two years after an appeals court ruled the ban unconstitutional. The decision reinstated a Los Angeles porn shop owner's conviction for distributing sexually-explicit videotapes made by porn star Traci Lords when she was 15. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented on the central issue, claiming the law cannot effectively single out those who "knowingly" make, distribute or receive depictions of minors engaged in sexually-explicit conduct...
...took up a political football, hearing arguments for and againstterm limits for members of Congress. The Court -- which will take an initial, private vote on an Arkansas case on Friday but not issue a decision until June -- seemed leery of both sides' constitutional logic. "It's very close," Justice Antonin Scalia said. After the 90-minute session, one term-limit opponent, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), joked: "It is pretty clear the voters are taking care of the problem." BTW: Twenty-two states have approved various forms of term limits since 1990.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...