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Such scrutiny, however, does not rule out a surprise, either a scandal in the past --or a path in the future unknown for now even to Roberts. Some Justices, like conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have consistently played to type; some, like John Paul Stevens and David Souter, ignored the beliefs of the Republican Presidents who picked them. And some, like O'Connor, have evolved over their tenure and been powerful precisely because they could be unpredictable. There is no way to be certain what effect the court will have on each new member. Appointed for life, they answer...
...confirmed, Roberts would tint the already Harvard-packed Court a still-deeper shade of Crimson, becoming the seventh member of the Court to have attended Harvard. David H. Souter ’61 graduated from the College, while Justices Souter, Stephen G. Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy hold HLS degrees. Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended HLS for two years, and Justice Rehnquist holds an M.A. in government from the University...
Roberts would become the seventh member of the Court to attend Harvard. David H. Souter ’61 graduated from the College, while Souter, Stephen G. Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy hold HLS degrees. Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended HLS for two years, while Chief Justice Rehnquist holds an M.A. from Harvard in Government...
...convinced things had changed and voted with the majority to end it. It was just the kind of switch that made the court's more doctrinaire conservatives nuts: "Seldom has an opinion of this court rested so obviously upon nothing but the personal views of its members," Associate Justice Antonin Scalia sniffed in a dissent. This year, though, O'Connor didn't join the majority of the court in putting an end to the death penalty for juveniles, again citing the national consensus rationale...
Ever since the court in 2003 struck down a Texas statute that criminalized same-sex sodomy, social conservatives have echoed Justice Antonin Scalia's lament that the court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda." But in the same decision, the court stressed that a right to same-sex privacy did not necessarily translate to a right to same-sex marriage. For now, the gay-marriage debate is being played out in the states, but before long the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, which lets states refuse to recognize other states' same-sex marriages, could make...