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...years, the only serious challenges (such as the rejection of Nixon Appointees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell) have occurred when political objections were linked to questions of fitness and competence. Some liberals feel that it is time for the Senate to reassert < its political prerogatives. In that case, Scalia and Rehnquist make inviting targets. "My own view is that the Senate's role is to be a partner in the appointment process and examine the views of the nominees, at least when the President is so self-consciously trying to shape the court," asserts Yale Law School Professor Paul...
...throw out Roe or, more likely, just shade it at the margins to uphold some state laws that make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions. The same uncertainty surrounds Justice O'Connor, who also dissented in Thornburgh but did not call for the outright reversal of Roe. Scalia, a strong Catholic, is believed to be a surer vote to overturn Roe and thereby return the decision on whether or not to permit abortions to the state legislatures...
...wrote the majority opinion in Fullilove vs. Klutznick, a 1979 case explicitly upholding the use of quotas to set aside 10% of federal contracts for minority-owned businesses under a public-works act passed by Congress. Supreme Court Expert Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute suggests that Scalia would not "cotton to" such a decision and predicts a "move to a more color-blind jurisprudence." In a 1979 article in the Washington University Law Quarterly, Scalia bluntly stated his views: "I am, in short, opposed to racial affirmative action for reasons of both principle and practicality. Sex-based affirmative...
...Scalia would make it much harder for blacks to win a discrimination case. Burger was the author of Griggs vs. Duke Power Co., a 1971 decision holding that employment tests that have the effect of barring blacks are unconstitutional. Scalia, by contrast, has argued that blacks must show direct evidence that the employer was motivated by racial bias against them...
...your typical Washington dinner party. After dessert at the Scalia home in McLean, Va., guests are often found grouped around an upright piano in the living room. At the bench, banging out old tunes and, in his hearty baritone, leading the crowd of amateur songsters (which often includes such regulars as Justices Rehnquist and O'Connor), is the master of the house, Antonin Scalia, known to friends and family as Nino...