Word: scalia
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...majority coalition cut across ideological lines. Sandra Day O'Connor, a Reagan appointee and the court's only woman, joined the liberal Marshall in his opinion, as did William Brennan, Harry Blackmun and (with a minor exception) John Paul Stevens. Antonin Scalia, a philosophical conservative who is Reagan's only other appointee to the bench, wrote a separate opinion that agreed with the outcome but on narrower grounds...
...Everybody was in a jolly mood." Thus a court insider described the atmosphere as the Rehnquist Court went to work in closed session for the first time last week. With William Rehnquist newly sworn as its Chief and Antonin Scalia the newest Associate Justice, the reassembled U.S. Supreme Court began going through the summer's accumulation of new cases. The transition has proceeded smoothly. Former Chief Justice Warren Burger moved out of his chambers early so they could be repainted, and most of Rehnquist's pictures and effects are now tidily in place. Burger retains a smaller office, for retired...
...reasons, the Chief describes each case briefly and gives his views first. Burger sometimes rambled on and lost his place. Rehnquist is expected to state the issues more sharply and succinctly. The discussion will now end on a strong intellectual conservative note as well: as the junior member, Scalia speaks the last word. The new dynamics will be at work this week, when, on the first Monday of October, the Justices formally open the term. Oral arguments are scheduled Wednesday in one of the most difficult cases they face. Feminists are split over a 1978 California law allowing a pregnant...
Though 65 Senators voted to confirm Rehnquist, there were 33 nays, the most ever for a successful court appointee. The Senate was kinder to U.S. Appeals Court Judge Antonin Scalia, voting 98 to 0 to approve his nomination as Associate Justice...
...Scalia, a 1960 graduate of the Law School, wasto have taken part in a symposium entitled"Contrasting Approaches to the Interpretation ofthe United States Constitution," which promises toprovide a high-powered forum on the direction theSupreme Court should take in the future...