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...remarks, Kagan also announced that the school will host three Supreme Court justices over the next few months, including discussions with Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Antonin Scalia later this month. Justice David H. Souter ’61 will visit the school in November...
...John Roberts sailed through his confirmation hearings, conservatives stepped up pressure on George W. Bush to choose his next Supreme Court nominee more squarely in the strict-constructionist, Antonin Scalia mold. Another Roberts, according to conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, would be "a betrayal." Why? Because Roberts left it unclear whether he would uphold Roe v. Wade, and Schlafly and others want a sure vote to reverse...
...that Rehnquist is gone, his passions for limited government and strict constitutional interpretation will be carried further by his more ideological heirs, Thomas and Antonin Scalia-and, presumably, by whomever Bush appoints to replace him. But Scalia lacks the temperament-and Thomas, the vision-to match the departed Chief. His spare and often brilliant reasoning didn't ignite the conservative revolution that some predicted, but with the help of a new crop of like-minded colleagues, it did bring a generation of liberal activism on the court to an end.-With reporting by Melissa August, Perry Bacon Jr. and Viveca...
...legal right they have had for 32 years. But to many conservatives the matter has never been settled as the Warren Court's original recognition of a constitutional right to privacy (in a 1965 case involving the use of contraception) provided the basis for Roe. Strict constructionists like Antonin Scalia and Thomas think the court was just plucking rights out of thin air when it perceived the right to privacy nestled in the Ninth and 14th amendments. (The Ninth says just because some rights are explicitly protected doesn't mean others don't exist; the 14th says people cannot...
...some anti-Darwinists seized upon Justice Antonin Scalia's dissenting opinion in the 1987 case. Christian fundamentalists, he wrote, "are quite entitled, as a secular matter, to have whatever scientific evidence there may be against evolution presented in their schools." That line of argument--an emphasis on weaknesses and gaps in evolution--is at the heart of the intelligent-design movement, which has as its motto "Teach the controversy." "You have to hand it to the creationists. They have evolved," jokes Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, Calif., which monitors attacks...