Antonin Scalia

Access online today's rulings in argued cases of the U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Freeman v. Quicken Loans, Inc., No. 10-1042. You can access the oral argument via this link. And...  

It has said the claims in the lawsuit were baseless. The opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, upheld an appeals court decision for Quicken in the dispute. At issue was a provision in the law that generally barred lenders for collecting ...  

to consider any particular means of breaking the impasse -- let alone to consider giving the jury new options for a verdict," he said. Justice Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito supported the decision.  

"The foreperson's report was not a final resolution of anything," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts on behalf of himself and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Stephen Breyer. The justices also found that ...  

Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan joined the majority. Three dissenters offered a different interpretation. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by justices Stephen Breyer and ...  

thewrongcarlos.netCan you tell these men apart? Neither could the death penalty. Surprise, surprise—people, who are fallible, can apparently make mistakes when they kill other people for killing people. And the case in Texas reported on here is just terrible. Take it away, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia: A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said...  

"A truly exclusive Washington party: Antonin Scalia hosts justices to toast new Henry Friendly bio." This entry appears today at "The Reliable Source" blog of The Washington Post....  

You thought the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was exclusive? Ha! Here’s exclusive: A book party with a couple dozen guests — including two-thirds of the Supreme Court — at Antonin Scalia’s home in McLean. “Friendly was a ...  

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is known for his quick quips, sarcasm, and cutting remarks from the bench. But has he crossed the line “that separates tough scrutiny from advocacy?” A Bloomberg News article raises that question. Justice Scalia’s tone this year has raised new criticisms, according to the article, which notes the justice’s accusing [...]  

With Arizona we should take a stand. The melody was weak and the lyrics weaker. But the protest anthem was noteworthy in one respect: In tone and substance, it was nearly identical to the argument Justice Antonin Scalia made inside the court. While other ...  

In January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of “high-handedness.” He was just getting warmed up. Over the next 3 1/2 months, Scalia asked whether federal immigration policy was designed ...  

Wednesday night, United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke to a packed house in Bennett Auditorium at U. Southern Mississippi. The event was titled “The Methodology of Originalism.” Originalism is the philosophy that seeks to ...  

In January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of “high-handedness.” He was just getting warmed up. Over the next 2 1/2 months, Scalia asked whether federal immigration policy was designed ...  

Looks like we missed a fiesta grande outside the Supreme Court yesterday, where everyone gathered to gaze in awe at Antonin Scalia as he called your abuelita a bandita. Most of those gathered, according to our spies on Twitter, were just huge Mexicans being a bunch of gangsters whenever they weren’t busy napping under sombreros [...]  

Looks like we missed a fiesta grande outside the Supreme Court yesterday, where everyone gathered to gaze in awe at Antonin Scalia as he called your abuelita a bandita. Most of those gathered, according to our spies on Twitter, were just huge Mexicans ...  

"Employment lawyer fights regulations": Monday's edition of The Washington Post will contain an article that begins, "Eugene Scalia is a well-known name in Washington -- his father is U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The younger Scalia is a partner...  

When John Roberts became chief justice, he spoke about forging consensus and moving beyond 5-4 decisions, but the tone instead is being set by Scalia, the justice who crossed First Street NE last year to address a gathering of the congressional ...  

In an article from The Grand Rapids Press dated March 21, you quote U. S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking about life sentences for juveniles, as asking, “So I’m supposed to impose my judgment on what seems to be a consensus of ...  

Especially when you compare it to one of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s honorees, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who is coming in person to not only be at RPI’s graduation on May 26 but also to partake in President Shirley Ann Jac ...  

When John Roberts became chief justice, he spoke about forging consensus and moving beyond 5-4 decisions, but the tone instead is being set by Scalia, the justice who crossed First Street Northeast last year to address a gathering of the ...  

In her April 30 letter, "RPI shouldn't honor Scalia," Leah Jakaitis questions whether Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is being honored "simply because there aren't enough women students to protest him." How absurd. The university's woman president has ...  

During the last day of Supreme Court hearings about the Affordable Care Act, the justices covered whether or not the entire law could stand if the individual mandate was struck down and the law’s expansion of Medicaid. However, Justice Antonin Scalia ...  

For three days, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been huffing and puffing, making it as clear as he can that he wants to scrap every page of the Affordable Care Act. By this morning, Scalia seemed to think "his position in U.S ...  

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia joked that reading the entirety of the Affordable Care Act is akin to cruel and unusual punishment. "What happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? And do you ...  

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — who, I remain convinced, just doesn't give a fk about much of anything anymore and is just screwing with us for fun — had another banner day today during the oral arguments concerning the Arizona "Pape...  

Here’s where a person could lose just a little bit of patience with the Supreme Court: in the midst of an exchange with Deputy Solicitor Edwin Kneedler, Justice Antonin Scalia saw an obstacle he didn’t like: JUSTICE SCALIA: You really want us to go ...  

I spent a long time thinking of a good title for this blog post, because I really wanted to capture the very deep thoughts I was thinking as I reflected on the Supreme Court oral arguments about Obamacare that happened last week. I think I ...  

Let me just start by saying that I'm sick of talking about the Affordable Care Act. I'm sick of explaining it to people who are using every ounce of their limited brain-power to try their darnedest ...  

Is this a strange turn of events or what? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has a new hunting buddy in the most unlikeliest of people: fellow Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. The trip to the shooting range and follow-up hunting trip were ...  

I was astonished to learn recently that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute plans to honor U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at this year’s commencement. Scalia’s opinions on Civil Liberties are anathema to all those who value human ...  

Scalia aggressively questioned the Obama administration’s lawyer Donald Verrilli on the limits of federal power, and how they might be impacted if the health care law’s requirement to purchase insurance is upheld. That may not seem like much of a surprise.  

Follow stories by David Weigel. MySlate is a new tool that you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. There was in a strange moment in today's severability ...  

Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are certain to decide that the law is unconstitutional. Thirty courts below them have already upheld it. Justice Anthony Kennedy is the only possible swing vote and maybe Chief Justice John Roberts ...  

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has found himself a new enthusiastic hunting partner in fellow Justice Elena Kagan. We know what you're thinking: "Wait a second, isn't Kagan that new judge Obama appointed?" Yep, that's the one. We're just ...  

In the process, he took issue with Justice Antonin Scalia, who referenced the infamous "Cornhusker Kickback" in March's Obamacare oral arguments.  

Ignore for the moment that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito weren’t even on the bench for Bush v. Gore... In the Los Angeles Times article titled, Signs of Supreme Court Activism Worry Reagan ...  

Justice Antonin Scalia, saying the Arizona law only makes illegal what Federal law makes illegal. The Obama Administration argues the state law is an unconstitutional over-reach, jeopardizing a uniformed Federal policy.  On other issues ...  

Justice Antonin Scalia seemed skeptical of Solicitor General Donald Verilli's argument that enforcement of federal immigration law is the authority of the federal government alone. "The state has no power to close its borders to people who have ...  

"The State of Arizona, in this case, is imposing some significantly greater sanctions," he said. Alone among the justices, Antonin Scalia appeared ready to uphold the entire law, which he described as an effort by Arizona to police its borders.  

An anonymous law student has a nauseating personal encounter with Justice Scalia. Literally… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Antonin Scalia, Bad Ideas, Drinking, Law Students, Nauseating Things, SCOTUS, Supreme Court  

Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion emphasized the intrusion on Jones’ car. “The Government physically occupied private property for the purpose of obtaining information,” Scalia wrote. “We have no doubt that such a physical intrusion ...  

The melody was weak and the lyrics weaker. But the protest anthem was noteworthy in one respect: In tone and substance, it was nearly identical to the argument Justice Antonin Scalia made inside the court. While other justices at least attempted ...  

The melody was weak and the lyrics weaker. But the protest anthem was noteworthy in one respect: In tone and substance, it was nearly identical to the argument Justice Antonin Scalia made inside the court. While other justices at least attempted a veneer ...  

“What does sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders?” That question by Justice Antonin Scalia goes to the heart of the Supreme Court’s blockbuster immigration case, Arizona v. United States. The end result ...  

said Justice Antonin Scalia, mirroring Arizona’s argument that its 2010 law is necessary because of federal failure to secure the U.S.-Mexico border ... oral argument before the justices, Washington lawyer Paul Clement, representing Arizona, said ...  

The melody was weak and the lyrics weaker. But the protest anthem was noteworthy in one respect: In tone and substance, it was nearly identical to the argument Justice Antonin Scalia made inside the court. While other justices at least attempted ...  

The melody was weak and the lyrics weaker. But the protest anthem was noteworthy in one respect: In tone and substance, it was nearly identical to the argument Justice Antonin Scalia made inside the court. While other justices at least attempted ...  

Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. agreed. Three liberal justices supported the administration’s view. Justice Elena Kagan sat out last year’s case and also has withdrawn from this year’s, apparently ...  

Justice Antonin Scalia led the charge among justices inclined to agree with Arizona. He passionately argued that the Constitution provides states the authority to craft immigration policy to protect their borders — an argument at odds with longstanding ...  

Seated from left to right: Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Standing, from left are: Associate ...  

With Arizona we should take a stand. The melody was weak and the lyrics weaker. But the protest anthem was noteworthy in one respect: In tone and substance, it was nearly identical to the argument Justice Antonin Scalia made inside the court. While other ...  

(Rapper) Flavor Flav would be great ... Chris Christie, who seems to gain 10 pounds every time I see him, would be a great vice president." * On Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: "Under that robe, Justice Scalia is an Italian guy. He's had ...  

In his fervent defense Wednesday of Arizona’s right to crack down on illegal immigration, Justice Antonin Scalia likened immigration enforcement to crackdowns on bank robbers. “What’s wrong about the states enforcing federal law?” Scalia said ...  

Justice Antonin Scalia weighs in on Obamacare during today’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: ACA, Antonin Scalia, Health Care, Health Care / Medicine, health care reform, Individual Mandate, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Quote of the Day, Scalia, SCOTUS, Supreme Court  

As the evening drew to a close in Bennett Auditorium, University of Southern Mississippi political science professor Bob Press asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia if he had a "respect" for his fellow justices with differing constitutional ...  

In his fervent defense Wednesday of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigration, Justice Antonin Scalia likened immigration enforcement to policing bank robbers, and accused the law's critics of trying to appease Mexico.  

Reporter-turned-liberal columnist Dana Milbank is incensed that Antonin Scalia is, well, being himself. The Washington Post scribe -- who infamously appeared on a February 2006 Countdown with Keith Olbermann in hunting gear to mock Vice ...  

In his fervent defense Wednesday of Arizona’s right to crack down on illegal immigration, Justice Antonin Scalia likened immigration enforcement to crackdowns on bank robbers. “What’s wrong about the states enforcing federal law?”  

Attention-whoring nematode Antonin Scalia would like to take a regularly scheduled opportunity to remind America that his is a lifetime appointment and professionalism be damned, on this the occasion of the national attention being paid to the SCOTUS hearing on the constitutionality of Arizona’s “Let’s have a Mexican-hunting party” SB 1070 law, and therefore let [...]  

Normally, given this decision, I would say that Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Kennedy and John Roberts should have their heads examined. But I also think, like any aspiring paratrooper, they should have other parts of their bodies ...  

Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel Alito Jr. were also ... and Feldman presented her with a signed poster from the performance of the Richard Strauss opera Ariadne Auf Naxos in which both Ginsburg and Scalia made brief ...  

Attention-whoring nematode Antonin Scalia would like to take his regularly scheduled opportunity to remind America that his is a lifetime appointment and professionalism be damned, on this the occasion of the national attention being paid to the SCOTUS ...  

Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when discussing the ObamaCare legislation during oral arguments at the Supreme Court. “What happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want...  

Scalia Likens Reading Obamacare to Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when discussing the Obamacare legislation during oral argument today at the Supreme Court. JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? (Laughter.) JUSTICE...  

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia discussed his philosophy of Constitutional originalism and how it can be applied to modern cases at U. Southern California on Tuesday. Scalia explained originalism as interpreting the Constitution as ...  

Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when discussing the Obamacare legislation during oral argument today at the Supreme Court. JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? (Laughter.) JUSTICE SCALIA: And do you really expect the Court to do that? Or do you expect...  

It would be hilarious were it not so serious for America and the world. Justice Antonin Scalia, the intellectual leader of the conservative majority, equated a broccoli market with a health insurance market. He asked, "If the government can require ...  

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia discussed his philosophy of Constitutional originalism and how it can be applied to modern cases at the Gould School of Law’s 2012 Justice Lester W. Roth Lecture on Tuesday. Scalia explained ...  

Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when discussing the Obamacare legislation during oral argument today at the Supreme Court. JUSTICE ...  

All the way back in the distant misty past of 2005, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia found himself espousing a rather broad interpretation of the Constitution's Commerce Clause in the case of Gonzales v. Raich, as a way to justify strict federal ...  

Scalia, the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, compared the legal arguments of this case to one he won a few years ago in which the SEC sought to classify equity-indexed annuities as securities. In that case, the court found the ...  

Justice Antonin Scalia is no stranger to partisanship — he spent much of last week’s hearing on the Affordable Care Act touting Republican talking points about “broccoli” and “cornhusker kickbacks” rather than examining his very own opinions that establish that health reform is constitutional. Yet, when given an opportunity to echo Republican Fifth Circuit Judge [...]  

WASHINGTON—Associate Justice Antonin Scalia struggled to recall the names of all nine active Supreme Court justices while playing a trivia game Thursday, sources confirmed.  

The Justices of the US Supreme Court, official photograph, October 8, 2010. Front row (L-R): Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Associate Justice Ruth ...  

In a recent question-and-answer session at the University of Southern Mississippi, Justice Antonin Scalia refused to comment on President Barack Obama’s less-than-exact observations on the Supreme Court. * * * “We don’t respond to criticism,” Scalia said. “Judges use what’s known as the rope-a-dope trick. It’s judicial tradition.” * * * So the question is this: Once President Obama wears himself out, will the Supreme Court go for the knock out?  

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has found himself a new enthusiastic hunting partner in fellow Justice Elena Kagan. We know what you're thinking: "Wait a second, isn't Kagan that new judge Obama appointed?" Yep, that's the one. We're just as surprised (and delighted) as you are. We have to give some kudos to Scalia, but it looks as though we have Sen. James Risch of Idaho to ultimately thank for this fortunate turn of events. Back in 2010...  

Strip searches of jail inmates are justified, US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told students at the University of Southern Mississippi. Scalia, speaking on the campus Wednesday night, said that he truly does believe that jail security outweighs the ...  

University Forum will feature Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia today at 6:30 p.m. today in Bennett Auditorium. Scalia will deliver a lecture titled, "The Methodology of Originalism" as part of the University of Southern Mississippi's Honors ...  

HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Strip searches of jail inmates are justified, US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia tells students at the University of Southern Mississippi. Scalia, speaking on the campus Wednesday night, said that he truly does believe ...  

No, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, DO NOT go hunting with Antonin Scalia. Do not get dressed up in your camouflage hunting gear. Do not pick up a weapon. Do not get in the van. “He’s made a huntress out of me,” Kagan told Mike Gousha, host of “On the Issues” at Marquette’s law school [...]  

(Newser) – They may be divided when it comes to judicial philosophy, but off the bench, liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and conservative Antonin Scalia are ... hunting buddies. While visiting Marquette University, Kagan revealed that ...  

(NewsCore) - US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan surprised a Wisconsin audience this week with news that she has recently taken to hunting with her ideological opposite, fellow justice Antonin Scalia. "He's made a huntress out of me," Kagan ...  

HATTIESBURG — As the evening drew to a close in Bennett Auditorium, University of Southern Mississippi political science professor Bob Press asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia if he had a "respect" for his fellow justices with ...  

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's skepticism of President Obama's health care law went beyond probing questions about Congressional power and interstate commerce. And at various points, the justice's questions echoed lines of attack you'd just as likely see in on a conservative blog or in an RNC email blast.  

‘Oyez, oyez, oyez, Decision Day on the Supreme Court of the United States ... Next we have Justice Antonin Scalia, another Trentonite, who just celebrated his 76th birthday, making him the oldest male member of the Court.  

Antonin Scalia, Justice of the United States Supreme Court (during oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act) Really? Think hard about that comment and consider the case of New Jersey residents, Diandra Barreto and Michal Gallinella, who were ...  

Bartow Farr III, a veteran Supreme Court advocate. And, as they did Tuesday, members of the court's conservative majority, — and Justice Antonin Scalia in particular — appeared supremely reluctant to allow the law, if gutted of the insurance mandate ...  

The simplest way to see this point is to focus on the jurisprudence of a key vote in any hypothetical 5-4 decision to strike the law -- Justice Antonin Scalia. Under Scalia's approach, the question of Congress's authority is not answered by asking whether ...  

Bartow Farr III, a veteran Supreme Court advocate. And, as they did Tuesday, members of court's conservative majority, and, in particular, Justice Antonin Scalia, appeared supremely reluctant to allow the law, if gutted of the insurance mandate ...  

Bartow Farr III, a veteran Supreme Court advocate. And, as they did Tuesday, members of court's conservative majority, and, in particular, Justice Antonin Scalia, appeared supremely reluctant to allow the law, if gutted of the insurance mandate ...  

He should run, specifically, against the five justices on the Court who span the spectrum from conservative to very conservative: Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. There are two prominent objections to running ...  

During the last day of Supreme Court hearings about the Affordable Care Act, the justices covered whether or not the entire law could stand if the individual mandate was struck down and the law’s expansion of Medicaid. But Justice Antonin Scalia seemed surprised that someone would have expected the justices to read the text of [...]  

SCALIA LIKENS READING OBAMACARE TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTBY: Washington Free Beacon Staff - March 28, 2012 2:46 pmSupreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when discussing the Obamacare legislation during oral argument today at the Supreme Court.JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go...  

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was one of the justices making the occasional joke today. (Courtesy: U.S. Supreme Court) It was the hottest ticket inside the Beltway–the Supreme Court’s hearings on the federal health care law. Kaiser Health News ...  

Democrats are lashing out at conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for alleged bias during the Obamacare hearing, even though the court’s four liberal justices were generally seen as more effective in pushing for the law than the ...  

Democrats are lashing out at conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for alleged bias during the Obamacare hearing, even though the court’s four liberal justices were generally seen as more effective in pushing for the law than the ...  

James Stewart, NY Times“If the government can do this, what, what else can it not do?” asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia this week in arguments on the constitutionality of the requirement that nearly all Americans buy health care insurance or face a penalty.“All bets are off,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. gravely added.Thus did this week’s Supreme Court arguments over the Obama administration’s health care law emerge as a...  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week's marathon ... from the conservative justices who have called on unelected judges to show deference to the actions of elected officials. Justice Antonin Scalia, who appeared ...  

The Justices of the US Supreme Court sit for their official photograph on October 8, 2010 at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Front row (L-R): Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G.  

Click here to view this media Chris Hayes took a shot at Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for where he apparently gets his news and for his hypocrisy with basing his rulings on partisan ideology and whether he likes a particular law or not when it comes to his opinion on interstate commerce. HAYES: We now know that many of the conservative Justices appear to be getting their information from reading right wing blogs. We know Justice Scalia...  

But Obama was making a political case ... a requirement for individual health insurance. Justice Antonin Scalia, for one, appeared strongly in favor of striking down the entire law. A decision is expected by July. Also Thursday, Senate ...  

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., who made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the healthcare law Tuesday, was upbraided by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after he flubbed an ...  

Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, “While the Constitution makes no provisions for healthcare, it explicitly defends the people’s right to form militias; clearly, the Founders believed that if anyone should be looking up ...  

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., who made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the healthcare law Tuesday, was upbraided by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after he flubbed an ...  

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., who made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the healthcare law Tuesday, was upbraided by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after he flubbed an ...  

Legal experts from across the political spectrum believed the justices were likely to uphold the law – until Tuesday’s pointed questioning by Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. Only 17 percent of ...  

Re "Justices need to study op on health insurance" (Editorials, March 29): Your editorial describing Justice Antonin Scalia's lack of understanding of the Affordable Care Act appalled me. He and his conservative cohorts on the court have almost ...  

Since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia clearly isn’t going to take the time to actually read the health care reform law before he decides whether or not it’s constitutional, maybe he and a couple of his buddies on the High Court can catch a ...  

Currently the court is made up of six Catholics and three Jews. Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan are Jewish; Chief Justice John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Sam Alito, Kennedy, Sotomayor and Thomas are all Catholic. America's majority Protestant ...  

Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito joined in the majority decision. The decision brought a sharp dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.  

This artist rendering shows Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler speaking before the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 28, 2012. Justices, from left are, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia ...  

Since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia clearly isn't going to take the time to actually read the health care reform law before he decides whether or not it's constitutional, maybe he and a couple of his buddies on the High Court can catch a screening ...  

Democracy is democratizing at the Wonkette blog! We received so many excellent submissions for our “make a dumb computer picture of Rachel Maddow fighting aliens and/or Antonin Scalia” Art Contest that your usually totalitarian editor has decided not to unilaterally pick the winner based on whatever would piss off the community most. We did, however, [...]  

Directions for Supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia who said, “You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?” he quipped. “Is this not totally unrealistic, that we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?”  

The LORD preserve us from judges like Nino claiming to preserve our "liberty". Andrea Louise Campbell: >Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole: Justice Antonin Scalia subsequently expressed skepticism about forcing the young to buy insurance: “When they think they have a substantial risk of incurring high medical bills, they’ll buy insurance, like the rest of us.” >May the justices please meet my sister-in-law. On Feb. 8, she was a healthy 32-year-old...  

The comments were particularly striking from the conservative justices who have called on unelected judges to show deference to the actions of elected officials. Justice Antonin Scalia, who appeared strongly in favor of striking down the entire ...  

Speaking at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday evening, Justice Antonin Scalia declined to answer a question about President Obama’s recent assertion that overturning the health care law would be an “unprecedented, extraordinary” step of judicial activism. Scalia went on to explain how judges deal with criticism, the Associated Press reports. "We don't respond to criticism," Scalia said. "Judges use what's known as the rope-a-dope...  

For now, at least, the justices appear as divided as the country itself. "The federal government is not supposed to be a government of all powers," Justice Antonin Scalia said. "It's supposed to be a government of limited powers." Scalia voiced ...  

Though she's not running for anything, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan almost sounded as if she were trying to score points with Wisconsin outdoorsmen Tuesday during a conversation at Marquette University. Kagan, a New York City native who had no experience with guns when she was named to the court in 2010, said she's now used them several times with colleague Antonin Scalia. "He's made a huntress out of me," Kagan told Mike Gousha...  

Justice Antonin Scalia suggested during oral arguments Wednesday that the Supreme Court could strike the "Cornhusker Kickback" from President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul without having to invalidate the whole law, asserting that the notorious provision given that nickname "was the means of getting the last necessary vote in the Senate." That provision offering $100 million in federal Medicaid assistance for Nebraska -- as a...  

From a New York Times account of a Supreme Court colloquy on what will happen when -- OK, "if" -- five or more Justices vote to overturn the individual-mandate provision in the Obama health care bill: Justice Antonin Scalia [right, from Wikipedia] said an ...  

From the moment the court agreed to take the case, legal scholars and political observers have hypothesized that Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia--a staunch conservative--and Chief Justice John Roberts ... after Bush v. Gore or Citizens United ...  

But conservative Justice Antonin Scalia shot back that "there will be no parade of horribles because all federal courts are intelligent" and will impose common-sense limits, drawing a laugh from the gallery. "Justice Scalia, I mean, honestly, I can't ...  

How do Supreme Court justices respond to criticism? Simple. They don’t… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Criticism, Obamacare, Quote of the Day, Rope-a-dope, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, University of Southern Mississippi  

In a recent question-and-answer session at the University of Southern Mississippi, Justice Antonin Scalia refused to comment on President Barack Obama’s less-than-exact observations on the Supreme Court. But he did meet the Law Blog ...  

Most Intense Barrage: Verrilli came under fire early and often from the conservative justices, especially Antonin Scalia, who quizzed Verrilli on young people buying insurance. Scalia: We're not stupid. They're going to buy insurance later.  

Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito appeared likely to join with Justice Clarence Thomas to vote to strike down the key ... White House press secretary Jay Carney, traveling Tuesday with Obama in South Korea, reiterated the ...  

In the arguments before the Supreme Court on the individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, Justice Antonin Scalia likened it to a slippery slope that could lead to the federal government forcing citizens to buy broccoli. In response ...  

Justice Antonin Scalia, the most aggressive conservative during the three days of debate, tried to convince the two swing justices — John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy — that the entire law should be struck down because the individual mandate to buy ...  

Nobody knows what the Supreme Court will decide with regard to the Affordable Care Act. But, after this week's hearings, it seems quite possible that the court will strike down the "mandate" – the requirement that individuals purchase health insurance – and maybe the whole law. Let's start with the already famous exchange in which Justice Antonin Scalia compared the purchase of health insurance to the purchase of broccoli, with the implication...  

Court may be tempted to keep individual mandate to preserve the rest of the Act. "You want us to go through 2,700 pages" of the law? asked Justice Antonin Scalia. "Is this not totally unrealistic ... to go through one by one and decide each one?" Scalia's ...  

Once exchange that received a lot of attention from Tuesday’s Supreme Court session was between Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., Justice Antonin Scalia, and Justice Elena Kagan.  The transcript available at Politico records the exchange as follows: 6 JUSTICE KAGAN: And this is especially true, 7 isn’t it, General -­ 8 GENERAL VERRILLI: — because that’s the 9 judgment Congress [...]  

The nine Supreme Court justices, absent clerks, staff, and anyone else, gathers in their chamber today and casts votes in favor ... It is expected that conservative Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, Jr., are sure to strike against ...  

Justice Elena Kagan has a way with weapons, thanks to her colleague, Antonin Scalia. Speaking at Marquette University on Tuesday, Kagan said Scalia has taught her how to shoot a gun, and she has used her newfound expertise to bag pheasant and quail, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. "He's made a huntress out of me," Kagan said. Kagan said she has come to view hunting as “really good fun.” Prior coverage: ABAJournal.com: "Kagan...  

Quite possibly the most depressing spectacle of three days of Supreme Court arguments on the Affordable Care Act was the very apparent fact that Justice Antonin Scalia gets his information from right-wing blogs. That and Justice Samuel Alito’s vast ...  

But Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan appeared ready to blow past the technicality while other justices such as John Roberts and Anthony ... Politico's Jennifer Haberkorn, Kate Nocera and Jason Millman ...  

Justice Antonin Scalia’s misgivings about President Obama’s health care law were evident to all observers during this week’s three days of Supreme Court arguments on its constitutionality. But his skepticism went beyond probing questions about ...  

The high court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia, overturned a federal appeals court decision that allowed the lawsuits to proceed. The justices ordered the lower court to again consider whether the lawsuits were untimely.  

Justice Antonin Scalia’s misgivings about President Obama’s health care law were evident to all observers during this week’s three days of Supreme Court arguments on its constitutionality. But his skepticism went beyond probing questions about ...  

Up for grabs, they say, are Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy, and maybe even the court's conservative stalwart, Justice Antonin Scalia. The government's brief is peppered with references to Gonzales vs. Raich, a 2005 case in ...  

Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia invoked the Eighth Amendment, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when asked to go through every page of the bill.  

Justice Antonin Scalia, the court’s long-time conservative champion, said that in cases when such issues are not clear, “courts are not deprived of jurisdiction,’’ meaning the 1867 tax law should not short-circuit a ruling on health care.  

I cannot divine whether U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will cast the decisive fifth vote to overturn the individual mandate in the health care law. I can’t say how Justice Antonin Scalia would prefer his broccoli — Steamed? Stir fried? Raw? — should the government compel us all to eat it, as Scalia proposed during this week’s oral argument.  

Justice Antonin Scalia: If it’s not jurisdictional, what’s going to happen is you are going to have an intelligent federal court deciding whether you are going to make an exception ... What we want to do is get money from these people.  

From Justice Antonin Scalia, in reference to the plea of the Solicitor General to consider the keep the rest of Obamacare if the mandate is ruled unconstitutional: JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? (Laughter.) JUSTICE SCALIA: And do you really expect the Court to do that? Or do you expect us to -- to give this function to our law clerks? Is this not...  

March 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy offer their views on President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul. Today's session, the second of three days of arguments in the historic case, focuses on a requirement that Americans obtain health insurance or pay a penalty. (Excerpts. Source: Bloomberg)  

Kagan, a New York City native who had no experience with guns when she was named to the court in 2010, said she's now used them several times with colleague Antonin Scalia. "He's made a huntress out of me," Kagan told Mike Gousha, host of "On ...  

Justice Antonin Scalia asked the Obama administration's lawyer Donald Verrilli Tuesday to defend the controversial individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act and wondered why Washington bureacratics couldn't also make citizens buy vegetables.  

Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia suggested on Wednesday that the Supreme Court could strike the "Cornhusker Kickback" from President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul without having to invalidate the whole law. He was right, in a way: The notorious provision isn't in the law. The "Cornhusker Kickback" was the derogatory nickname of one of several sweetheart deals designed to ensure that the law had enough votes to pass. Amid a...  

As a student body that claims to value a diverse and robust learning environment, I am disappointed to learn about efforts to “silence” Justice Antonin Scalia’s lecture earlier this month. You are right to call for greater diversity among ...  

Quite possibly the most depressing spectacle of three days of Supreme Court arguments on the Affordable Care Act was very apparent fact that Justice Antonin Scalia gets his information from right-wing blogs. That and Justice Samuel Alito's vast ...  

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is among the speakers for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s President’s Commencement Colloquy on Friday.  

The session began with the reading of two decisions. The first, read by Antonin Scalia (because Roberts had recused himself) involved whether a two year statute of limitations, after which suits to recover funds from those who profited from ...  

USA Today - Found 3 hours agoIt wasn't just legal precedents and case law at today's Supreme Court health care hearing.Some of the justices and lawyers also told a few legal jokes to lighten the atmosphere.Our colleague Richard Wolf, who was in the courtroom, sent us these examples:-- Justice Antonin Scalia to Robert Long, the ... Supreme Court debates health care law - CNN PHOTOS: Legal...  

Democrats are fuming over Justice Antonin Scalia’s conduct during this week’s Supreme Court deliberations on President Obama’s healthcare law.  While several of the high court’s liberal justices seemed to cheerlead for its defense, Scalia appeared ...  

That decision may come down to Anthony Kennedy, who's often the swing vote, and Antonin Scalia, a conservative who has written decisions that ObamaCare supporters cite as precedent. The court examined Monday whether the individual mandate's fine for not ...  

Court watchers will be paying particularly close attention to questions and comments from Justice Antonin Scalia since he is (unexpectedly) one of the conservative justices who is most well positioned to uphold the law. The key decision court ...  

Justice Antonin Scalia suggests jurisdictional issues – such as “what is a tax” should have a very narrow definition, meaning he may not think the Anti-Injunction Act stops the court from reviewing the health law. He made this remark after a lawyer ...  

Once exchange that received a lot of attention from Tuesday’s Supreme Court session was between Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., Justice Antonin Scalia, and Justice Elena Kagan.  The transcript available at Politico records the ...  

The expansion of Medicaid was supposed to be among the least controversial parts of the Affordable Care Act, so court-watchers were taken aback Wednesday when the justices decided to weigh its constitutionality. Justice Antonin Scalia characterized it as a stickup.  

Justice Antonin Scalia has enjoyed a reputation as a deep thinker on legal issues, but by recycling right-wing talking points News during oral argument on the Affordable Care Act -- such as the "broccoli mandate" and "Cornhusker Kickback" long ...  

The five conservative justices relentlessly questioned Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., who defended the law. Justice Antonin Scalia asked whether upholding the mandate would mean that Congress could require everyone to exercise. Justice Samuel Alito asked whether the mandate wasn't really a disguised subsidy of sick people by healthy people. Chief Justice John Roberts asked whether a mandate to purchase health insurance you may need...  

Would it be possible to let some of President Obama’s infamous 2010 health care reform legislation—or “Obamacare,” if you speak Republican—stand while scrapping other parts and still have a functional law at the end of the process? That was one big question Supreme Court justices grappled with on Wednesday. The New York Times: Justice Antonin Scalia said the whole law would have to go. “My approach would be to say that if you take the heart...  

WASHINGTON -- Your money or your life? That's an easy choice. Your life or your wife's? Justice Antonin Scalia appeared to suggest Wednesday he might have a hard time with that one. "You can't refuse your money or your life. But your life or your wife's ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Your money or your life? That's an easy choice. Your life or your wife's? Justice Antonin Scalia appeared to suggest Wednesday he might have a hard time with that one. "You can't refuse your money or your life. But your life or your ...  

Arguing about whether the court could keep some provisions of the health care law intact, Justice Antonin Scalia says that reading all 2,700 pages of the statute would constitute, basically, torture: JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment?  

WASHINGTON — Your money or your life? That’s an easy choice. Your life or your wife’s? Justice Antonin Scalia appeared to suggest Wednesday he might have a hard time with that one. “You can’t refuse your money or your life. But your ...  

“The federal government is not supposed to be a government that has all powers,” Justice Antonin Scalia said. “It’s supposed to be a government of limited powers. … If the government can do this, what else can it not do?” Scalia ...  

Re "For starters, Justice Scalia, broccoli isn't health insurance" (Viewpoints, March 31): During the Supreme Court hearings on the federal health care reform law, Justice Antonin Scalia said, "Everyone has to buy food, but the federal ...  

WASHINGTON - Your money or your life? That's an easy choice. Your life or your wife's? Justice Antonin Scalia appeared to suggest Wednesday he might have a hard time with that one. "You can't refuse your money or your life. But your life or your ...  

In the lead up to this week's hearings, some had speculated that the votes of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Anthony Kennedy might be in play. But during Tuesday's arguments, Scalia, at least, was clearly leaning toward ...  

"When," asked Justice Antonin Scalia, "have we ever really struck down what was the main purpose of the act, and left the rest in effect?" The typically blunt Scalia suggested it would be better if Congress started with a clean slate, instead of ...  

Can't make this stuff up. Reid Pillifant writes on Capital New York: To some longtime observers of the Supreme Court, the surprising part of yesterday's oral argument wasn't that Justice Anthony Kennedy critically questioned the individual mandate; it was the harshly skeptical tone from Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia, one of the court's most outspoken characters, has long been an originalist villain to those on the left, but there was a...  

Thank President Reagan for  putting Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States. On Wednesday, the court issued the unanimous opinion Scalia wrote in the case of Sackett v. EPA. The clarity of the opinion, helpful to its ...  

Arguing about whether the court could keep some provisions of the health care law intact, Justice Antonin Scalia says that reading all 2,700 pages of the statute would constitute, basically, torture: Justice Scalia: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? (Laughter.) Justice Scalia: And do you really expect the Court to do that? Or do you expect us to -- to give this function to...  

Does the fate of a federal government with limited powers rest in the hands of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia? And if so, will he rule against broad federal powers (as he did in the Gonzales case) or in favor of the feds' right to regulate just about anything (as he did in the Raich case)? The Supreme Court case over The Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, "is certainly the most important case on the reach of federal power in 50...  

Rose Ann DeMoro, Common Dreams, March 30, 2012 Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer did not have much in common during the three days of debate on the 2010 healthcare law before the Supreme Court March 26-28. But they did share one essential characteristic. All four will never have to worry about guaranteed access to healthcare. They won’t have to worry about being bankrupted by medical bills, about...  

Justice Antonin Scalia offered differing views this morning on whether other provisions of the Obama administration's health care law can stand if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the insurance mandate. At one point, Scalia said, it “just couldn’t be right” that the entire law would have to fall if one provision were unconstitutional, SCOTUSblog reports. At another point, he voiced a different view, one noted by SCOTUSblog, the New York...  

The say that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. If that's the case, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer may soon move to the right of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Post's Reliable Source reports that Breyer's Georgetown home was broken into in ...  

Antonin Scalia's wife arrested, again: "The New York Post reports that a 45-year-old Long Island woman was arrested last week for selling hot dogs and handjobs out of a camper on the side of the road. It was the second time Catherine Scalia had been arrested for selling hot dogs and handjobs out of a camper on the side of the road."  

Click here to view this media How embarrassing and shameful is this? We've got lies being spread on Fox News, a Supreme Court Justice repeating those lies during hearings before his court and then Fox repeating the lies told by the Justice in their "reporting" that evening. Here's more from Steve Benen on Antonin Scalia telling repeating the falsehood that the "Cornhusker kickback" was part of the Affordable Care Act -- There is no 'Cornhusker...  

He makes the Supreme court look good.Change: Supreme Court ratings jump to new high after ObamaCare argumentsAntonin Scalia excoriating the executive branch of government for its extreme out-of-the-mainstream denigration of our most precious founding document will have that effect.Thanks, Barry, for allowing the light of day to shine.  

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on the Constitutionality of the US ConstitutionOpEdNewsThe case was brought before the court by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who charged Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg with abusing the US Constitution to determine the constitutionality of cases brought before the Court.and more »  

While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health-care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted, telling Verrilli, “we’re not stupid.”  

Justice Scalia to Obama’s Solicitor General: ‘We’re not stupid’ [AUDIO] By Nicholas Ballasy - The Daily Caller 3:39 PM 03/27/2012 ADVERTISEMENT While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health-care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted, telling Verrilli, “we’re not stupid.” Justice Elena Kagan, a former solicitor general...  

While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health-care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted, telling Verrilli, “we ...  

But Justice Samuel Alito noted that everyone also eventually dies. Should people be forced to buy burial insurance then, so that others aren’t forced to pick up this tab? What about broccoli, Justice Antonin Scalia asked. Should people be ...  

Re "Justices need to study up on health insurance" (Editorials, March 29): After reading your editorial I came up with a couple of questions for Justice Antonin ... And secondly, I would ask what insurance company would accept the young person ...  

"Like the protected books, plays and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas … That suffices to confer First Amendment protection," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the decision. In Saudi Arabia, though, violence is very real and present.  

What does sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders?" -Justice Antonin Scalia, in questions and comments during the Supreme Court's hearing April 25 on the constitutionality of Arizona's law, S.B. 1070, on the regulation of ...  

But she said that even U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recognized the legitimacy of laws "forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings.' And Brewer said that, from her perspective, this bill ...  

"What is left? If the government can do this, what else can it not do." -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, discussing the provision of the Affordable Care Act that would require all Americans to purchase health insurance. In one sense, the Affordable ...  

Verrilli looks like he wants to be any place but listening to Justice Antonin Scalia—the justice most likely to be pulled over for impersonating a paid Fox News contributor—analogizing the right to demand papers of suspected illegal immigrants to the ...  

He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He earned a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in philosophy from ...  

What does sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders?" -Justice Antonin Scalia, in questions and comments during the Supreme Court's hearing April 25 on the constitutionality of Arizona's law, S.B. 1070, on the regulation of ...  

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia upset me from the word go. Ap pointed by Ronald Reagan, he has always seemed to revel in dousing the hopes of the little guy and making it easier and easier for government to do wrong and rich people to do all right.  

Since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia clearly isn't going to take the time to actually read the health care reform law before he decides whether or not it's constitutional, maybe he and a couple of his buddies on the High Court can catch a screening ...  

Then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Antonin Scalia comprised the majority in that case. Stevens' demurral gives fodder to defenders of President Obama and his ...  

A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, "a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an ...  

Nah. In the first place, you had four votes against the plan right out of the gate. Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito are old-fashioned conservatives. The only change they believe in is change that takes us ...