Antonin Scalia is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, March 11, 1936. He married Maureen McCarthy and has nine children - Ann Forrest, Eugene, John Francis, Catherine...
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Antonin Scalia is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, March 11, 1936. He married Maureen McCarthy and has nine children - Ann Forrest, Eugene, John Francis, Catherine Elisabeth, Mary Clare, Paul David, Matthew, Christopher James, and Margaret Jane. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School, and was a Sheldon Fellow of Harverd University from 1960–1961. He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 1961– 1967, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia from 1967–1971, and a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago from 1977–1982, and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Stanford University. He was chairman of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law, 1981–1982, and its Conference of Section Chairmen, 1982–1983. He served the federal government as General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy from 1971–1972, Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States from 1972–1974, and Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel from 1974–1977. He was appointed Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1982. President Reagan nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat September 26, 1986.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed concerned on Monday that the president did not have adequate authority over the operation or appointments of an agency that polices auditors of public companies. During arguments to consider whether the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board violates the U.S. Constitution, the justices scrutinized the president's relationship to the semi-private regulator. The outcome of the case could alter how corporate America is audited... Read Full Story
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (AN'-toh-nihn skuh-LEE'-uh) has said in a speech at Ohio State University the Constitution is best treated as an original document within the context of its historical creation, not as a text subject to modern reinterpretation. He delivered the keynote speech Tuesday at a daylong forum on the concept of originality, or the theory the Constitution should be interpreted as its authors intended. He embraces the theory. He says his burden is not to show... Read Full Story
Several Supreme Court justices seemed unsympathetic Monday to calls for the courts to get involved in reining in what investors are calling "excessive" fees on mutual funds, a popular investment vehicle for millions of Americans. Some of the justices suggested that a regulatory agency might be in a better position to determine if the fees are appropriate. They also said consumers always have recourse to switch to another fund if they aren't happy with the fee amounts. "It makes a lot more... Read Full Story
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California gay marriage case that backers hope will reach the U.S. Supreme Court cleared a hurdle on Wednesday in a federal court hearing where the judge repeatedly asked the lawyer defending "traditional marriage" how gay unions harm those between men and women. California, a cultural trendsetter for the United States, banned same-sex marriages in a vote last November that ended gay unions only months after a state court legalized them. The passage of the ban... Read Full Story
Chief Justice John Roberts spoke out in vain Tuesday against a lower court ruling he says will "grant drunk drivers 'one free swerve'" that could potentially end someone's life. Roberts' statement came in a dissent as the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Virginia officials who had their drunk driving conviction of Joseph A. Moses Harris, Jr. thrown out by that state's Supreme Court. Police were notified by an anonymous tipster that Harris was driving intoxicated, but the... Read Full Story
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says those who want modern-day legal interpretations to view the U.S. Constitution through contemporary lenses are seeking rigidity, not flexibility, in the country's justice system. Scalia is well-known as a strict constructionist in his interpretation of the Constitution. He told a Tucson audience Monday that the rival approach favors sweeping judicial decrees to shape society "coast to coast" on issues such as abortion, rather than seeking to pass... Read Full Story
A white cross erected in the California desert to honor soldiers killed in World War I plunged the US Supreme Court Wednesday into a complex debate on the separation of church and state. Critics charge that the cross, erected 75 years ago, violates the US Constitution, which bans the government from favoring one religion over another, because it sits on government land at the Mojave National Preserve. The nine justices appeared divided on the issue between conservatives and liberals, in a... Read Full Story
By Drew Zahn, WorldNetDaily
Obama Oath Redo - Where's the Holy Book?
A California attorney lobbying the U.S. Supreme Court for a review of Barack Obama’s qualifications to be president confronted the chief justice yesterday with legal briefs and a WND petition bearing names of over 325,000 people asking the court to rule on whether or not the sitting president fulfills the Constitution’s “natural-born citizen” clause.
According to Orly Taitz, the attorney who confronted Chief Justice... Read Full Story
Wardrobe Malfunctions: Where’s the Justice?
The U.S. Supreme Court revived the infamous Janet-Jackson supposed wardrobe-malfunction case, ordering a lower-court (yeah, it sucks being on the bottom) to revisit the case. The FCC fined CBS $550,000 for indecent exposure when Janet Jackson’s nipple was exposed to 90 million viewers who tuned in to the 2004 Super Bowl halftime infomercial. Had it been her brother Michael who had exposed his nipple for the 9/16ths of a second, the FCC noted the... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the New York attorney general's office can investigate whether national banks discriminated against minorities seeking mortgages. The justices overturned part of a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that entirely blocked the state office from investigating or enforcing the fair lending laws against national banks because they are subject instead to federal regulation. In the court's main split opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia... Read Full Story
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