Word: scalias
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...Bible. Interracial intimacy was seen as unnatural. Blacks were put forth as filthy sub-humans who wanted to muddy white bloodlines and thus destroy the goodness of the white race. Race mixing was akin to bestiality. Sound familiar? "Defenders" of marriage, from Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to Justice Antonin Scalia to Pope Benedict, have tossed out arguments just like these in their quest to keep same-sex couples from the altar...
Miers was apparently chosen because of her loyalty to the administration and her nonexistent judicial paper trail, which frees her from a Scalia-esque fiery debate over judicial philosophy during the confirmation process. Perhaps Miers has a well thought out constructionist judicial philosophy; perhaps she is a staunch conservative. This, however, isn’t actually important. The issue is that she was nominated specifically to avoid an ideological argument, which is a sign of how Bush’s conservatism doesn’t have the courage of its convictions...
Roberts’ confirmation turns a Court dominated by Harvard alums an even deeper shade of Crimson. Six of the Court’s nine justices have ties to Harvard. David H. Souter ’61 graduated from the College, while Justices Souter, Stephen G. Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy hold Harvard Law degrees. Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended HLS for two years before transferring to Columbia...
...Justices Scalia and Breyer here [on Wednesday],” Armini said, “and we’re always eager to have any one of our alumni justices back, either as part of their reunions or to add to the overall educational experience...
...Scalia said that the politicization of the Supreme Court could be attributed to the emergence of a “judicial philosophy which says the Constitution is indeterminate...