Word: antonine
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...lost their original obscene and/or overtly hostile significance, even while "impoverishing language and manners." The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that "obscene" speech does not enjoy First Amendment protection, and may in certain cases be criminal to express. Still, at least one of the nine U.S. justices, Sicilian-American Antonin Scalia, has some personal experience to work from. Last year when a reporter asked what he had to say to his critics, the brilliant judge responded: "I say "Vaffanculo!" If it is indeed a question of context, let the record show that Scalia had a big smile on his face...
...justify predictions of the end to spending restraint. As with the Bong Hits case, it also starts to show the ideological limits of the Roberts Court, where the President's two appointees, Roberts and Samuel Alito, are less open to sweeping legal change than their counterparts on the right, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas...
...Things could have turned out a lot worse for friends of McCain-Feingold, because three justices - Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy - wanted to go farther than Roberts and Alito by reversing the 2003 decision and striking down all the statute?s restrictions on ads, including the ban on ads advocating a specific candidate shortly before an election...
...whole, the claim that the Court is moving toward a reversal of the principles set forth in Roe and Casey is largely unfounded. The only justices who call for a reversal of Casey and Roe are Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas (both have long made their views on the matter clear...
...procedure even when necessary to protect a woman's health. But the decision could have been worse for supporters of abortion rights. The court said a woman could still challenge the law by showing that she would get sick without the procedure. And while Justice Clarence Thomas, with Antonin Scalia, wrote separately that the right to abortion shouldn't exist, the court's two new Bush-appointed members--John Roberts and Samuel Alito--didn't join them. That may bode well for the future of Roe v. Wade...