Word: antonine
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...short end of a 7-2 decision, Justice Antonin Scalia writes compellingly in his dissent: “When the State makes a public benefit generally available, that benefit becomes part of the baseline against which burdens on religion are measured; and when the State withholds that benefit from some individuals solely on the basis of religion, it violates the Free Exercise Clause no less than if it had imposed a special tax...[Davey] seeks only equal treatment—the right to direct his scholarship to his chosen course of study, a right every other Promise Scholar enjoys...
Similar sentiments were expressed by Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the dissent with Justice Clarence Thomas...
...though their aims are high, this team of academic warriors keeps running into brick walls. In January, the Harvard lawyers lost their Supreme Court case, failing to convince Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and co. that a 1998 bill extending the term of an author’s copyright was not only unconstitutional, but archaic for an information...
...acceptable practice to socialize with Executive Branch officials when there are not personal claims against them. That's all I'm going to say for now. Quack, quack." ANTONIN SCALIA, Supreme Court Justice, responding to a question about his duck-hunting outing with Vice President Dick Cheney, a potential litigant in a future Supreme Court case...
...into alleged bribes the company had flung around the globe in order to obtain foreign contracts. Cheney ran the company during part of the time frame covered by the probe, and his office, not surprisingly, isn't commenting. And last week's report that Cheney gave Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a ride on his plane as the two went off to hunt ducks in Louisiana came just as the Associate Justice must vote on whether records from Cheney's energy task force can remain secret. Furious Democrats called on Scalia to recuse himself from the case...