Word: scalia
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...list is also dotted with a handful of dark horse candidates from Washington D.C., including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and U.S. trade representative Carla A. Hills...
...mobilizing against Souter, but they are unlikely to impede his progress -- unless he makes a major gaffe. "Souter is far too good a technical lawyer to get himself into trouble," says American University law professor Herman Schwartz. "He will do what & Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Justice Antonin Scalia did -- dance around the issues...
That is undeniable. As was Reagan, who appointed three conservative Justices -- Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy -- Bush is in a position to pacify the restive right and propel the court more speedily on its current course. With two other Justices, Thurgood Marshall, 82, and Harry Blackmun, 81, in fragile health and rumored ready to follow Brennan into retirement, the Bush imprint on the high court could become every bit as significant as Reagan...
Even within the 5-to-4 majority, though, the Justices' views differed. The markedly conservative Antonin Scalia sharply declared that although he agreed with the majority, the federal courts "have no business in this field." Sandra Day O'Connor urged that further definitions of incompetents' rights be worked out by legislators in "the 'laboratory' of the states...
...Texas law barring flag desecration on the ground that it violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech, the Supreme Court last week threw out a law Congress subsequently passed to circumvent that ruling. The 5-to-4 vote was the same as before: conservative Reagan appointees Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy joined William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun in ruling that even offensive forms of political expression -- in fact, especially those offensive forms -- were what the Constitution was designed to protect. "Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered," Brennan...