Word: scalia
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...instructing the guards "not to have too much fun." The high court held that the use of such excessive force may constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Eighth Amendment even if the inmate does not suffer serious injury. But in a dissent joined only by Justice Antonin Scalia, Thomas wrote that the court's decision was "yet another manifestation of the pervasive view that the Federal Constitution must address all ills in our society...
...Bush appointed Thomas to reinforce the court's right-leaning majority, the move was a striking success. Thomas has voted with Scalia, the most conservative member of the high bench, in each of the 13 cases he has participated in this term. Pin Point, it seems, is a distant memory...
...location in Dealey Plaza, actors and crew filmed the motorcade re- enactment with super-8 movie cameras. "The idea," says co-film editor Pietro Scalia, "was to create a point of view so that this section has an amateurish look." After much wrangling, the JFK company secured use of the Texas School Book Depository, from which shots were fired on Nov. 22. The sixth floor had become a museum, so the moviemakers used the seventh floor there and, for appropriate perspective of the motorcade, the sixth floor of an adjacent building. Stone also filmed at the Dallas police headquarters, where...
...courts have replaced freedom of religion with freedom from religion. A nation's identity is informed by morality, and morality by faith. How can people freely debate issues like nuclear arms or the death penalty, how can children be educated, without any reference to spiritual heritage? As Justice Antonin Scalia observed in 1987, "Political activism by the religiously motivated is part of our heritage." The accommodationists deny that their agenda is to enforce conformity; all they want is for their positions to get a fair hearing...
...peyote for religious reasons -- for instance, that the government has a compelling interest in keeping the workplace free of illegal drugs. But instead, by a 5-to-4 vote, they discarded precedent and decided against Smith and Black on entirely different grounds. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia declared that "the right of free exercise does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a 'valid and neutral law of general applicability.' " There was no need to use the compelling-interest test in such a situation, he said, because that would permit every person "to become...