Word: scalias
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...Supreme Court discussed child porn on Tuesday, talk turned to movies like Traffic and Lolita, which appear to depict underage sexual activity. Justice Antonin Scalia told everyone he had never seen any of those movies after the discussion had lasted...
While most Washington appointment-watchers bite their nails for Rehnquist to step aside for Scalia and O'Connor to skip to Arizona and make way for someone more, well, reliable, George W. Bush is quietly, stealthily writing the future of U.S. monetary policy for the next 14 years by stacking the Federal Reserve board? with bankers...
...Unless Scalia wants...
...Supreme Court was clearly more troubled by the privacy issues than Huguenin. The majority opinion explicitly used the heat-detector case to draw what Justice Antonin Scalia called a firm, bright line blocking the use of this and future imaging technologies to peer into the home or any other place where an individual might have a reasonable expectation of privacy...
...Kyllo case, Anthony Kennedy's stance may have been as surprising as Scalia's (and of course that of John Paul Stevens, who bought the government's line). In a 1998 case, Minnesota v. Carter, he wrote that "Security of the home must be guarded by the law in a world where privacy is diminished by enhanced surveillance and sophisticated communications systems." But guess how he ruled this week? With Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist - and for law enforcement's newfangled evidence-gathering gizmos...