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...spacious, oak- paneled conference room, located behind the courtroom. Following a century- old custom, they shake hands with one another and then settle around the rectangular conference table, with the Chief at one end and the senior Associate Justice, currently William Brennan, at the other. The most junior, now Antonin Scalia, sits to Brennan's right and answers any knocks on the door or hands out any messages necessary. No law clerk or other person is in the room during the conference...
...ANTONIN SCALIA...
Religion. Powell took a highly eclectic approach: he voted to allow Pawtucket, R.I., to place a creche in a municipal Christmas display, but also to strike down an Alabama law authorizing a moment of silence in public schools. Justices Rehnquist, Byron White and Antonin Scalia want to go further than Powell ever would in approving state practices that foster religion, and O'Connor would like to rewrite the court's standard test for deciding when such practices are constitutional. Powell's successor might make a majority...
...resignation last week of Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, a moderate, throws open the possibility of a new examination of the "mess." Justices William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White have indicated a willingness to lower some church-state barriers, and Antonin Scalia, a conservative who joined the court last year, dissented from overturning a Louisiana law that required equal school treatment for creation science, deeming the court's work on the establishment clause "embarrassing." Powell's replacement, who will become President Reagan's third court appointment, may create a new 5-4 majority favoring a less rigid...
...Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, sharply dissented. The two latest Reagan appointees argued that the Louisiana law was a valid attempt to let students decide "for themselves, based upon a fair presentation of the scientific evidence, about the origin of life." They attacked the majority for believing that any government requirements restricting the teaching of evolution "must be a manifestation of Christian Fundamentalist repression." The dissenters said this majority "predisposition" was "created by the facts and the legend" of the Scopes case...