Word: scalias
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...years, our nation has substantially cleaned up our air and water--thanks to citizen enforcement lawsuits, tough federal laws that regulate interstate pollution and the ability of Congress and executive agencies to employ modern, innovative solutions to environmental problems as our society grows more complicated. However, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia has been leading an effort on the Supreme Court to revive obscure legal doctrines that restrict the ability of the government and citizens to protect our environment. If the next President appoints more Justices in the mold of Justice Scalia, our environmental standards are at grave risk...
...conservative Scalia Court is not just a doomsday prediction: Texas Gov. George W. Bush publicly stated on "Meet the Press" one year ago yesterday that Justice Scalia is his model for a Supreme Court Justice...
While scholarly and accomplished, Justice Scalia advocates a judicial philosophy that looks backwards into the 19th century and that seeks to roll back years of environmental progress...
...effect of Kennedy's decision goes beyond initial surprise; his stance seems to push the Court ever closer to an anti-abortion majority. Joined by the more predictable ranks of Justices Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist, Kennedy wrote a scathing rebuttal to the majority opinion, in which he lambasted the Court's interpretation of its own ruling in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey case, which upheld Roe v. Wade. Kennedy, a contributor to the 1992 majority opinion, has apparently been overtaken by serious reservations as he considers the future of abortion in America - leading many to wonder if an anti...
Adding fuel to the already raging speculative fire, Kennedy also joined Scalia and Thomas in a dissent against the majority opinion in another abortion-related decision Wednesday. By a 6-3 margin, the Justices upheld a Colorado law requiring abortion protesters to keep a specified distance from clinic patients and employees, concluding that the statute does not violate the First Amendment rights of the protesters. And while the Colorado decision was not nearly as close, Kennedy's position rattled many pro-choice advocates, who have come to count on him as a dependable if somewhat unenthusiastic defender of abortion rights...