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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia answered questions yesterday afternoon at the Law School on topics ranging from original intent to the quality of Harvard Law School...
...cannot control our decision. Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code." Despite this affirmation of Roe, the court permitted greater restrictions on abortion by the states. In a 7-to-2 vote, the three were joined by Justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Byron White (all of whom had scathingly dissented from the affirmation of Roe) in upholding provisions of Pennsylvania's law. Among them: a requirement that teenagers show the consent of one parent or a judge, and another that stipulates a 24-hour waiting period...
...majority that reaffirmed abortion rights last week, Kennedy had to step away from his own earlier opposition to Roe v. Wade, which he signaled just three years ago when he put his name to a withering attack on Roe written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and joined by Antonin Scalia, the court's right-wing philosopher-bulldog. At an end-of-term party last week, ) the court clerks gently ribbed Kennedy for legal flip-flops by performing the theme song from the old TV series Flipper...
...Anita Hill's sexual-harassment charges and the Senate's lukewarm 52-48 confirmation vote -- one of the thinnest margins in court history. As in the abortion ruling last week, he has linked up with the court's hard-line conservatives, , Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. These three have often combined with Byron White and three more moderate conservatives, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter, thus giving the court a conservative majority in most important cases last term...
...rights, the Rehnquist court has been predictably conservative in its approach. But last week, as the term entered its final days, the high court issued a quartet of decisions that showed a distinct pro-First Amendment, pro-civil liberties streak that surprised many observers. What was clear was that Antonin Scalia and Thomas, the right wing of the court, were far from controlling the agenda. Instead, a group of Justices -- Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter and Anthony Kennedy -- combined to demonstrate the existence of a new centrist core. "These cases may indicate the emergence of a stronger, more open...