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...prompt" mean? Last week the Supreme Court held, in a 5-to-4 vote, that suspects may generally be jailed for as long as 48 hours. While the decision was in line with the court's recent law-and-order tilt, there was a surprise dissenter: conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Arguing that a 24-hour delay was the constitutional limit, Scalia fumed, "Hereafter a law-abiding citizen wrongfully arrested may be compelled to await the grace of a Dickensian bureaucratic machine as it churns its cycle for up to two days...
Even so, not all the court's conservative members could agree on every aspect of the case. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for a majority that included Souter, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia, argued that introducing an involuntary confession at trial was merely a procedural error. He distinguished such "harmless errors" from "structural defects" such as a biased judge or a denial of the defendant's right to an attorney. Unfair practices of that magnitude, he said, would still trigger an automatic reversal on appeal...
Justice Antonin Scalia would have allowed companies only a little more latitude. In a concurring opinion, he suggested that in rare instances employers might be permitted to exclude pregnant women from jobs where the ensuing costs for ensuring a woman's health care would be "inordinately expensive." But Scalia had already telegraphed his rejection of Johnson Controls' practices. Last October, when the case was argued before the court, Scalia, who has fathered nine children, took the company's lawyer to task for making "a farce of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act." That act, a 1978 amendment to Title VII, ensured that...
...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...