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...Supreme Court ruled that public schools can require athletes to undergo random drug testing, without establishing any suspicion that the students involved are abusing substances. The Court held that school athletes have a lesser expectation of privacy, so that testing them does not constitute an unreasonable search. Justice Antonin Scalia cautioned that the new ruling applied only to athletes, and should not be interpreted as condoning suspicionless searches regarding other students.TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohennotes that the justices did not divide along traditional lines in this ruling. "Justice O'Connor and Justice Souter, who are generally viewed as conservatives, strongly...
...California case upholding a 1977 law banning distribution of child pornography, two years after an appeals court ruled the ban unconstitutional. The decision reinstated a Los Angeles porn shop owner's conviction for distributing sexually-explicit videotapes made by porn star Traci Lords when she was 15. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented on the central issue, claiming the law cannot effectively single out those who "knowingly" make, distribute or receive depictions of minors engaged in sexually-explicit conduct...
...took up a political football, hearing arguments for and againstterm limits for members of Congress. The Court -- which will take an initial, private vote on an Arkansas case on Friday but not issue a decision until June -- seemed leery of both sides' constitutional logic. "It's very close," Justice Antonin Scalia said. After the 90-minute session, one term-limit opponent, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), joked: "It is pretty clear the voters are taking care of the problem." BTW: Twenty-two states have approved various forms of term limits since 1990.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
They objected to the 300-ft. prohibitions and other clauses. But they allowed much of the smaller zone, which Rehnquist wrote "burdens no more speech than necessary to accomplish the governmental interest at stake." This drew a blistering dissent from Justice Antonin Scalia, who accused his colleagues of creating a standard of tolerance for injunctions against all kinds of speech -- to serve a fondness for abortion rights, which, he thundered, now "claims its latest, greatest and most surprising victim: the First Amendment...
...source at a local tobacconist's claims the President "smokes" Hoyo De Monterre Excalibur 1s ... The FDA's David Kessler admits to collegiate pipe smoking ... Anti- tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man ... Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton's Inauguration, he's rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford...