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...Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David H. Souter joined Kennedy's opinion, against a conservative minority led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as well as Samuel A. Alito Jr., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas...
...Justice Scalia added that the U.S. is "at war with radical Islamists," and that the Boumediene ruling "will almost certainly cause more Americans to get killed." Scalia warned, "The nation will live to regret what the court has done today...
...over it. It's so old by now.' ANTONIN SCALIA, Supreme Court Justice, on lingering feelings about the court's 2000 Florida recount ruling, which secured the presidential election for George W. Bush...
...Justice Antonin Scalia's solo opinion insisted that courts should not decide these issues; legislatures should. Justice John Paul Stevens, while agreeing that the case at hand was lame - since lethal injection is entirely designed NOT to be cruel and there is skimpy evidence that this theoretically possible kind of agonizing execution has ever actually happened - urged precisely the opposite. He would like for the Supreme Court to reconsider the entire death penalty and find the whole thing cruel and unusual. Like former justices Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Sandra Day O'Connor before him, Stevens has concluded...
...control advocates, the hearing's most ominous sign was Dellinger's reception from Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court's fulcrum, who clearly pivoted toward a more expansive reading of the amendment. Like Scalia, he decoupled its two clauses, arguing that the state's right to maintain a militia did not imply that individuals did not also have a right to defend themselves in their homes. "The amendment says we reaffirm the right to have a militia," Kennedy said, "but in addition, there is a right to bear arms." Kennedy's crucial swing vote would tip the scales in favor...