http://www.wikio.com/search=Antonin Scalia Wikio - Antonin Scalia http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63163949 WASHINGTON – Justice Anthony Kennedy vaulted from California to the Supreme Court 20 years ago, seemingly with his eyes wide open. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63163949 2008-07-06T07:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63161605 Dale Metta, who manages a gun shop just outside the District of Columbia limits in Maryland, has had to turn away dozens of city residents wanting to buy handguns in recent days. Never mind that the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down Washington's 32-year-old ban on possessing handguns. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:32:01 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63161605 editor@denverpost.com (<B>By Brian Westley</B> / <I>The Associated Press</I>) 2008-07-06T05:32:01Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63140822 The US Supreme Court: John Roberts, age 55 John Paul Stevens, age 88 Antonin Scalia, age 72 Anthony Kennedy, age... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:09:44 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63140822 2008-07-05T21:09:44Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63089190 After years of split decisions, America's highest court has found consensus on a range of issues. How John Roberts brought the Justices together Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:13:23 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63089190 2008-07-05T06:13:23Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63063559 Cross posted from Radarsite Bush used phony patriotism to start war From the Chicago Sun Times http://www.suntimes.com/news/greeley/1034720,CST-EDT-greel02.article ANDREW GREELEY agreel@aol.com The Russians call World War II “The Great Patriotic War.” The current longest of our wars could well be called the same thing. It is a war that originated in the orgy of patriotism (”U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”) that followed [...] Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:06:11 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63063559 2008-07-04T21:06:11Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63068576 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:46:38 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=63068576 2008-07-04T13:46:38Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62985851 For millions of Americans the political highpoint of 2008 is now behind them. The precise day is forever inscribed in their hearts as one of glorious ratification of… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:58:03 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62985851 2008-07-04T07:58:03Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62978619 Perhaps the biggest non-Oklahoma winner in the settlement/cave-in by the city of Seattle in the lawsuit against the Sonics is Judge Marsha... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:43:09 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62978619 2008-07-04T05:43:09Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62967761 Sun, 06/29/2008 - 10:26am. by Mark Karlin Editor and Publisher June 30, 2008 Antonin Scalia is Rush Limbaugh’s high I.Q. alter ego; in short, Nino is a partisan hack and fabulist. We once chastised Harry Reid for saying — after Rehnquist’s death and before Roberts’ nomination — that Scalia was so brilliant that he might make an okay Supreme Court Chief Justice, even if Reid disagrees with his decisions. Good grief! Scalia Gives the Media the Italian Finger The reality is that Scalia is a totally partisan creature, who follows legal precedent and so called “original intent” only when it suits his right wing bias. But since the actual Constitution and legal precedent rarely support a radical agenda, Scalia is reduced to fabulist statements and legal circumlocutions that are so dishonestly twisted that they would make Nino the equivalent of a circus contortionist. Take Scalia’s lead decision on overturning more than 230 years of precedent on the Second Amendment. Okay, let’s repeat that, if Nino is a so-called “strict constructionist,” how could he lead a band of right wing GOP partisans in a brazen act of legal activism by overturning the combined legal legacy of all the Supreme Courts that preceded him and his gang from the beginning of the nation until now? Easy, Scalia pretty much ignored the Constitutional convention debates that serve as the battle ground for interpreting the Constitution, ignored the legal precedent of the Court that he sits on, and — instead — brought up an inane, bizarre argument right out of the NRA that isn’t even in the Constitution: self-defense in the home (which Scalia anecdotally described in the most rabid NRA fashion of a man with a locked-up handgun dialing 911. Uh, did they even have handguns or telephones during the American Revolution') Alas, the self-defense in the home issue isn’t even in the Second Amendment, but that’s of no hindrance to a man on a mission: Antonin Scalia. Scalia also cited English laws before the American Revolution, as if we didn’t have a revolution. Scalia isn’t a “strict constructionist”: to him revolution is a dangerous word. He wants to return to an English monarchy style of government. And of course there’s Scalia’s aversion to common sense. Okay, if you ban a handgun, but allow rifles, how are you denying an individual right to bear arms, even if you accept that as an “absolute” right? There were no modern handguns during the revolutionary period. Is Scalia telling us that the framers of the Constitution could see 230 years ahead and put in a few words in the Second Amendment that every American has a right to a semi-automatic Beretta? But thinking in a rational sort of way is not Scalia’s specialty nor is it of much interest to him. He is a political creature who dons himself in judicial flourishes that would be comical if they weren’t so pernicious to democracy and our Constitution. Then, Scalia wrote an opinion that we should deny habeas corpus to men in Guantanamo because “30” already have returned to the “battlefield.” Where does Nino get his “facts”, from the same place Bush and Cheney claimed that Saddam Hussein was tight as a bug with Osama bin-Laden? What’s more Scalia ignored the countless Guantanamo inmates who have been determined not to be terrorists but got caught up in a somewhat random dragnet and falsely denounced by people who were paid to identify likely Al-Qaeda members. Oh, and let’s not forget the infamous and mind-boggling 2000 election. Remember when Scalia stopped the recount in Florida, took away Constitutionally guaranteed State’s Rights in elections, overturned a conservative Atlanta-based federal appellate court, and declared — more or less — that if Al Gore won the recount it would hurt the reputation of George W. Bush, because Scalia was going to make sure that he “won” anyway — and he did. Then he made sure that the eventual ruling only applied to Florida, because, of course, it wasn’t grounded in the Constitution. ( He told a British paper this weekend that the ruling was Al Gore’s fault. We are not making this up.) Scalia’s decisions are a marvel, as if he were a highly biased law student asked to make his or her best case for defending the indefensible, after being told that he could use any law that they wanted — even if it wasn’t relevant — if he made it sound “smart.” And he would also be able to toss in their personal thoughts, arrogance, scorn, and tall tales. There’s so much more to be said about the University of Chicago Law School version of Rush Limbaugh, including when he gave the press the finger (such a well-mannered Federalist, Nino is.) But we’ll conclude with a true story we recall of Scalia speaking to a synagogue in Alabama two or three years back. He assured them that there was no fear for America becoming a “Christian nation” (oh, yes, of course, that would mean that Scalia doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state enshrined in the Constitution.). Scalia comforted the congregants with the statement that no Christian leader had ever made the Jews suffer. Is this man completely bonkers? You know in a Unabomber or Ted Bundy sort of way? The guy is so delusional he doesn’t remember Hitler, the Spanish Inquisition, and the long line of Christian nations and leaders under which the Jews suffered. Good grief. Rush Limbaugh is starting to sound downright sensible compared to Scalia. From BuzzFlash Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:13:45 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62967761 2008-07-03T23:13:45Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62931895 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been receiving a lot of criticism around here lately, much of it deserved and some of it from me. I did not like the way he bent over backward in D.C. v. Heller to reassure gun control supporters that existing federal restrictions on firearms are not in danger. His position that the Second Amendment covers only weapons "in common use...for lawful purposes," as opposed to the "unusual and dangerous weapons" that can be banned without violating the Constitutution, is a circular argument that seems designed to uphold the status quo. Neither the federal machine gun ban nor any other form of national gun control was before the Court, so Scalia should have left such issues for another day. By the same token, however, I don't think it's fair to criticize Scalia, as Radley Balko does , for failing to describe the exact parameters of the right to keep and bear arms (whether it extends beyond self-defense in the home, for example) or for refraining from deciding whether states and cities are bound to respect it by the 14th Amendment. Those questions were not before the Court either. The most important thing Scalia did in Heller (and did quite well, I thought) was to settle the question of whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right to arms and to lay out the reasons for concluding that it does. More generally, some of the stronger libertarian attacks on Scalia obscure the fact that, from both an originalist and an anti-statist perspective, he is substantially better than the average Supreme Court justice. Although he does not consistently apply his professed principles, he does stand up for a more eclectic mix of individual rights than any other justice, with the possible exception of Clarence Thomas. For the average self-styled progressive, the fact that Scalia upholds property rights in cases involving eminent domain and regulatory takings fits the profile of a reactionary Republican, confirmed by his position on the Second Amendment. But Scalia's wide-ranging defenses of free speech, in cases involving issues such as online "indecency," commercial speech , campaign finance restrictions , and flag burning (which the "liberal" Justice John Paul Stevens wanted to exclude from the protection of the First Amendment), does not jibe with that stereotype. Neither do Scalia's defenses of the Fourth Amendment. Although he has joined the majority in whittling away at the guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures, especially in the name of the war on drugs, he also has occasionally resisted that trend, both in the majority and in the minority . Radley writes that Scalia "has a history of prioritizing his law-and-order instincts over his allegiance to limited government principles and originalism, as he did when he sided with the Court's liberal justices in the medical marijuana case Gonzales v. Raich ." Joining the majority in Raich is one of the worst choices Scalia has ever made, hammering what may prove to be the final nail into the coffin of the "federalism revolution" he ostensibly supported. But Scalia's law-and-order instincts have not prevented him from standing up for the rights of defendants, despite his reputation as pro-government. In a pair of recent cases, for example, Scalia joined Thomas in narrowly construing the federal definition of money laundering, thereby overturning two convictions. Together with Thomas, he has led the charge against mandatory federal sentencing guidelines, insisting that the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury means judges may not determine facts that automatically trigger harsher punishment. And in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld , the 2004 case involving an American citizen detained in the United States as an "enemy combatant," Scalia took the most radical position against the Bush administration, saying the government had to try Hamdi in civilian court or let him go. In short, Scalia is in many ways more liberal (in the classical sense) than the allegedly liberal members of the Court, and we should not lose sight of that fact when we criticize him for his inconsistencies. On balance, I'd much rather see more justices like Scalia than more justices like Stevens. Mark Moller tries to figure out what Scalia was thinking when he took the wrong side in Raich . Cathy Young reviews Scalia's deviations from judicial restraint. Damon Root asks what's so great about judicial restraint anyway. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:39:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62931895 jsullum@reason.com (Jacob Sullum) 2008-07-03T18:39:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62893256 We haven't talked about gun suicides in awhile, but Mother Jones magazine brings up the issue in relation to the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding handgun "ownership" as an "individual right." Alas, the number of people killed in "self-defense" with a gun is dwarfed by the number of people who commit suicide with a firearm. [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:20:40 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62893256 2008-07-03T14:20:40Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62902171 The Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to delay a federal judge’s review of a plea bargain settling federal criminal charges growing out of an explosion at a Texas oil refinery in March 2005. Lawyers for 12 victims of that explosion, who contend that the plea bargain is too lenient and that it was reached without [...] Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:23:19 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62902171 2008-07-02T22:23:19Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62800845 Her latest column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is, "Court's end-term decisions are mixed." The Supreme Court’s decisions in recent weeks have casual observers scratching their heads trying to figure out the ideological bent of this bench. The focus of... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:12:17 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62800845 2008-07-02T20:12:17Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62940197 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 [...] Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:21:31 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62940197 2008-07-02T19:21:31Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62781200 Attorneys for blast victims had asked for a 60-day delay of a lower court's decision to send the case back to a Houston judge. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:58:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62781200 2008-07-02T17:58:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62775766 Last week the United States Supreme Court issued a decision on gun control and the application of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. It was a 5-4 split decision. 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.” The ruling will give gun-rights advocates a powerful new legal tool to try to strike down gun-control laws across the nation. [ New York Times ] This should be heartening news to Pahrump's gun carrying advocates. It certain was for the National Rifle Association. But the New York Times editorial of June 27 points out some real concerns about guns. They wrote: Thirty-thousand Americans are killed by guns every year — on the job, walking to school, at the shopping mall. The Supreme Court on Thursday all but ensured that even more Americans will die senselessly with its wrongheaded and dangerous ruling striking down key parts of the District of Columbia’s gun-control law. Obviously the Times doesn't like the Supreme Court's decision. But the Times raises some real considerations. Like many others I read the Las Vegas Review Journal. It seems like every week somebody is shooting somebody else in Las Vegas. One constant argument made in support of gun control is to keep the guns out of the hands of criminals and half-wits. But the truth is that anyone, criminals and half-wits, can get a gun if they want to. Even kids. Juvenile gangs don't seem to have much of a problem in getting guns. Drive-by shootings are rather common in urban America. Jill Derby, running for election to Congress against Dean Heller, expressed her support for the Supreme Court ruling upholding Second Amendment rights. She issued the following statement. Today's Supreme Court decision sets an important precedent in defense of the Second Amendment," said Derby. "Sensible gun laws must include respect for our Constitution and for gun ownership as a part of American culture. This ruling affirms that law-abiding citizens have a right to gun ownership for self-defense in the home and for hunting. Thanks to today's decision, that right will remain strong through the 21st century. [ Jill Derby ] "During her 2006 campaign for Congress, Derby received an A- rating from the National Rifle Association. The NRA has not yet released 2008 ratings," is reported on her campaign website. The founding father's links of the right to bear arms to the "militia" probably did intend to confine the right to carry arms to a militia, just as the Times says, but who am I to argue against the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision. http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'alt=rss Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:11:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62775766 noreply@blogger.com (Featheriver) 2008-07-02T17:11:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62742073 MSNBC has become a player in the cable news industry in a way it hasn't seen before. The jump in viewership has benefited MSNBC more than Fox News Channel or CNN, according to AP reports.... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:17 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62742073 2008-07-02T13:23:17Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62696460 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:02:35 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62696460 2008-07-02T06:02:35Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62645744 The number one employer in Washington, D.C. is the prison system. Guns have played a... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:20:48 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62645744 2008-07-01T19:20:48Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Antonin+Scalia?rinfoid=62622882 When the Supreme Court majority agreed with the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that Washington DC ban on handguns was unconstitutional, it left many questions unanswered. Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the 5-4 majority (with no concurring opinions... 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