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Antonin "Nino" Scalia was named to the position Tuesday by President Reagan, following the surprise resignation of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Scalia, who has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals since 1982, must receive Senate confirmation before joining the nine-member Court...
...approved, Scalia would join two other Harvard Law School graduates on the Court, Associate Justices Harry A. Blackmun '29 and William J. Brennan Jr., who graduated from the law school in '32 and '31, respectively. William H. Rehnquist, Reagan's nominee to replace Burger as Chief Justice, received a Masters degree from Harvard...
...Scalia's former classmates, ranging across the political spectrum, collectively praise Reagan's selection of the conservative judge, citing the 50-year old's intellectual ability, diligence, integrity and open-mindedness...
Does the Gramm-Rudman Act violate the Constitution? Oklahoma Democratic Congressman Mike Synar raised that question hours after President Reagan signed the budget-balancing bill into law last December, in a suit joined by eleven Representatives of both parties. Last Friday a panel of three federal judges--Antonin Scalia, a staunch conservative; Norma Johnson, a liberal; and Oliver Gasch, moderately conservative--gave a unanimous answer: one key provision does breach the principle that Legislative and Executive powers be kept separate. "Therefore the automatic deficit reduction process . . . cannot be implemented...
...will save Congress from itself. "There is no way this thing can be made constitutional," says Alan Morrison, the attorney handling the suit to stop Gramm-Rudman. "It's diseased." But when the case was argued before the Federal Court of Appeals in Washington on Jan. 10, Judge Antonin Scalia outspokenly challenged Morris' view that Congress could not delegate its funding authority. "Congress often delegates to the Executive difficult questions that it would rather not grapple with," Judge Scalia said. "I don't see how you can say that Congress hasn't made the tough judgment. They've made...