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...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...
...deemed the reading of rights unnecessary in certain situations. That legislation, declared Justice Rehnquist, writing for the majority, was moot, because "Congress may not legislatively supersede our decisions interpreting and applying the Constitution." Rehnquist's appearance among the left-leaning majority was a surprise to some legal analysts; Justices Scalia and Thomas took up the opposing side...
...upsetting of recent string of decisions, the court ruled in Whren v . U.S. that the police were not out of line when they used a minor crime as a pretext for stopping someone whom they found suspicious without an articulable basis for that suspicion. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia held that when a police officer actually arrests a driver for a traffic violation and then searches the vehicle, a Fourth Amendment-based motion to suppress evidence of other crimes will not prevail even if--based on an objective standard--police officers do not usually arrest people for that kind...
...public school fails to meet standards after three years, he would cut off its federal funds and turn the money over to parents in the form of vouchers, allowing them to send their kids to private school. He satisfies the right by praising conservative Supreme Court stalwarts Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas but sticks by his pledge not to use a pro-life "litmus test" in picking court nominees. And even as he promises tax cuts, a G.O.P. staple, he swears he will work hard to close the gap between society's "haves and have-nots...
...preventing undue searches). Unless they can invoke a special circumstance, such as a mental disability, kids often have thin grounds on which to base a defense against school punishment. That's because the U.S. Supreme Court has eroded student protections granted in the 1960s. In 1995 Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a caustic decision allowing drug testing of students. "Minors," he said, "lack some of the most fundamental rights of self-determination--including even the right of liberty in its narrow sense, i.e., the right to come and go at will." The ruling was widely seen to give administrators carte blanche...