Word: antonine
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...thinking that for most of the nation's history, courts have generally favored religious claims. Judges have ruled that Amish kids couldn't be forced to attend school and that Seventh-Day Adventists do not have to work on Saturdays. But that approach changed in 1990, when conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a Supreme Court decision that angered and frightened many religious people. In Employment Division v. Smith, Scalia said religious claims cannot be used to justify violating laws as long as those laws apply to everyone of every faith, neutrally. In the case at hand, Scalia wrote that Native...
SOUTER VS. SCALIA (1998) The Supreme Court Justices, both graduates of Harvard Law and appointed by Republicans, could hardly be more dissimilar in their life-styles. Financial-disclosure forms released last week highlight the differences between David Souter, 59, a modest resident of Weare, N.H., and Antonin Scalia, 63, a globetrotting crusader for conservatism...
There are times when you feel that if you hear the words elitist or subvert just once more, you'll barf. So when MOMA's Margit Rowell, who in the past has curated some intelligent shows on Constructivist sculpture, Brancusi, Antonin Artaud's drawings and other topics, affirms that Polke's vernacular has "regenerate[d] the language and meaning of Western artistic experience," and suggests that he is the Hieronymus Bosch of our day, you sigh. Polke has never shown a smidgen of the aesthetic intensity, the absorption in religious and moral experience or the staggering completeness of Bosch...
OCTOBER 2002 The Supreme Court rules 9 to 0 that William Ginsburg is not entitled to be paid for his "disastrous representation" of Monica. In a scathing opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia writes, "One only regrets that this man was not entrusted with the defense of O.J. Simpson." Ginsburg vows to appeal the ruling until it is pointed out to him that you cannot appeal a Supreme Court ruling...
...pair of rulings came from a comparatively unified court -- 7 to 2 -- and shows that even conservatives on the bench are staying strong on sexual harassment, says Cohen. For the record, the dissenters were Justices Antonin Scalia and -- who else? -- Clarence Thomas...