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Obama thought Clarence Thomas unfit for Supreme Court (SWAC Girl)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:46:00 GMT

I found this stunning: Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama declared that he would not have nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court because he was not a “strong enough jurist” for the job. ... He added that he also wouldn't have nominated Antonin Scalia, and perhaps not John Roberts, “though he assured the audience that at least they were smart enough for the job,” The...

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He should have stayed at ESPN (QandO)

feedback@qando.net (McQ) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:06:04 GMT

K eith Olberman gives the Supreme Court a lesson in the 2nd Amendment. You’ll soon see why, when he left ESPN and joined MSNBC, the IQ went up in both places: KEITH OLBERMANN: And our winner, Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court. You’ve got around 30,000 gun deaths in this country per year, another 75,000 non-fatal gun wounds, half the suicides are by gun; and this clown and his...

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Scalia takes to stage to tell lawyers how to win (Seattle Times)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:55:19 GMT

It's a pretty good crowd for a summer Friday morning at Kennedy Center. From stage right (where else?) Justice Antonin Scalia enters.

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D.C. Handgun Ban Overturned by U.S. Supreme Court ("GroundReport)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:07:02 GMT

The Supreme Court overturned the most stringent handgun ban in the country, towards the end of last month. In a 5-4 decision, the Court struck down the Washington D.C. statute banning the public possession of a firearm. In a majority ruling written by conservative justice Antonin Scalia, the Court issued a direct rebuke to gun control advocates, who have long argued that the first clause...

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“A Love Letter from Justice Scalia” (nogirliemen)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:21:31 GMT

That’s right, after the Supreme Court of the United States’ previous two scandalous rulings in recent weeks, SCOTUS finally got it right. Led by the world’s finest jurist, Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, the Court’s decision is a love letter to those who cherish “the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear [...]

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Ready, Aim, Backfire (Truthdig)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:38:20 GMT

There’s a silver lining in the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Second Amendment: Even Antonin Scalia recognizes that gun control is not the same thing as gun confiscation. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries June 27, 2008 Doug Henwood on the Global Power Elite June 26, 2008 When Common Sense Is Unconstitutional June 26, 2008 A Court of Radicals June 26, 2008 Courting Disaster June...

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Gun Control Advocates Are Feeling Down About Losing DC’s Handgun Ban — They Have Good Reason To Cheer Up (Gun Guys)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:31:36 GMT

Last Thursday, the Supreme Court, headed by conservative justice Antonin Scalia who wrote the majority opinion, overturned the District of Columbia's handgun ban by asserting that the ban violated the Second Amendment. In doing so, Scalia reversed over 200 years of legal precedent and ignored the robust history of gun control since the founding [...]

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"Justice Antonin Scalia: Al Gore to blame for 2000 US election mess." (How Appealing)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:12:49 GMT

"Justice Antonin Scalia: Al Gore to blame for 2000 US election mess." This article appeared last Friday in The Telegraph (UK)....

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Uneven Stevens By Robert VerBruggen (USA Partisan)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:06:00 GMT

In discussions of last Thursday's District of Columbia v. Heller ruling, Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion has, naturally, been front and center. But the two dissents are important as well. They show the four liberal justices' complete willingness to subordinate the Constitution to their own policy preferences. Full Article ...

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Uneven Stevens (The Two Malcontents)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:24:42 GMT

By Robert VerBruggen In discussions of last Thursday’s District of Columbia v. Heller ruling, Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion has, naturally, been front and center. But the two dissents are important as well. They show the four liberal justices’ complete willingness to subordinate the Constitution to their own policy preferences. Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen [...]

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Scalia blames Bush v. Gore on Gore (News From Underground)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:27:00 GMT

Justice Antonin Scalia: Al Gore to blame for 2000 US election mess By Toby Harnden in Washington Last updated: 12:56 AM BST 27/06/2008 The 2000 presidential election debacle was the fault of Al Gore, who should have followed Richard Nixon's 1960 example and conceded without legal action, according to the Supreme Court's leading conservative judge. "Richard Nixon, when he lost to [John...

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Washington Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo (The Moderate Voice)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:17:58 GMT

Entire forests have been pulped to provide the paper for all of the commentaries in the day and a half since the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, but when all is said and done this is what it comes down to: Justice Antonin Scalia, who in vociferously opposing the majority in the Gitmo detainee decision two weeks ago wrote that it “will almost certainly...

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Analysis: The political playing field (SCOTUSblog)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:13:45 GMT

Analysis Eighteen years ago, Justice Antonin Scalia complained that a Supreme Court decision he did not join carried an Orwellian message, abhorrent to the Constitution. He wrote, sarcastically: “Attention all citizens. To assure the fairness of elections by preventing disproportionate expression of the views of any single powerful group, your Government has decided that the following...

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Scalia v. Truth (Mercury Rising 鳯女)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:52:03 GMT

Antonin Scalia seems determined to demonstrate a disregard for judicial propriety and the truth both on and off the bench. In his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush, Scalia asserted that granting the detainees the right of habeus corpus “will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed” because “at least 30 of those prisoners hitherto [...]

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The NYT, the Supreme Court and Heller (Right Wing News)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:07:45 GMT

The NY Times, unsurprisingly, is aghast at the Supreme Court's ruling on Heller. Some excerpts: In a radical break from 70 years of Supreme Court precedent, Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, declared that the Second Amendment guarantees individuals...

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Charlie Rose did not challenge Scalia's false claim that "the press unanimously" agreed that Bush won Florida in 2000 (Media Matters)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:24:12 GMT

On the June 20 broadcast of PBS' Charlie Rose , host Charlie Rose did not challenge U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's false assertion that "the press unanimously" found that, in Rose's words, then-Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush "won that election in Florida." In fact, as Media Matters for America has noted , according to The Washington Post , data from a study...

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Antonin Scalia’s Gun Rights Poster Boy [All Spin Zone] (The Liberal Blog Network)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:20:46 GMT

Oh, Antonin Scalia, he with the Russian first name, is so stupid he thinks gun owners are smart and responsible, at least he said so in his opinion the other day, an opinion which struck down Washington DC gun laws. If Scalia were not so ideologically narrow he would understand that gun owners are sometimes whacked out, if not criminal.

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INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION (Texas Hold 'Em Blogger)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:05:40 GMT

Lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in support of the Second Amendment draws a clear picture between the conservative bloc, which understands the Constitution, and the extreme leftist bloc, which doesn’t. In writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia follows the Silberman Constitutional roadmap in finding that the “right [...]

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Scalia: Some Rights Are More Equal Than Others [All Spin Zone] (The Liberal Blog Network)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:50:30 GMT

There's a great quote in Animal Farm by George Orwell where he notes that some animals are more equal than others. Even though Antonin Scalia is steeped in fear of danger to our citizens, he's decided that the right to bear arms is a far more equal right than is habeas corpus. So goes my reading of the case.

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NYT, Heller and the Supreme Court (QandO)

feedback@qando.net (McQ) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:07:03 GMT

T he NY Times , unsurprisingly, is aghast at the Supreme Court’s ruling on Heller. Some excerpts: In a radical break from 70 years of Supreme Court precedent, Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, declared that the Second Amendment guarantees individuals the right to bear arms for nonmilitary uses, even though the amendment clearly links the right to service in a “militia.”...

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