Word: scalias
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...Scalia said his personal views on social issues have no bearing on his courtroom decisions...
...even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged,” Scalia said. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Scalia graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1960 and become the first Italian-American Supreme Court justice...
Dunster House resident Zachary D. Liscow ’05 rose during the question-and-answer session to suggest that Scalia’s own vote in the controversial 2000 presidential election case could be viewed as an example of the “judicial activism” Scalia deplores...
...mean by [‘judicial activism’] judges actively doing what they’re supposed to do,” Scalia responded. He said the Florida Supreme Court’s decision to order a recount in Miami-Dade County—a decision Scalia and his colleagues overruled—amounted to a “clear violation of the federal constitution...