Word: scalia
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...Legal Defense and Educational Fund, argued against overturning Runyon by stressing that it had become a "significant part of the web of congressional and judicial efforts to rid the country of public and private discrimination." Surprisingly, when Manhattan attorney Roger Kaplan argued to overturn the ruling, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who had voted to rehear the case, asked from the bench, "Let's concede that ((Runyon)) is wrong. So what? What's special about this case to require us to go back and change our decision?" When Kaplan answered that the 1976 ruling "intruded on the operation of Congress," Scalia...
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall can be "sullen and at times overbearing," though he listens "objectively." His benchmate John Paul Stevens is a "maverick." Byron White writes in a manner that is "hard to understand." But far more irritating is the behavior of Reagan Appointee Antonin Scalia, who "asks far too many questions ((and)) takes over the case from the counsel." Even Sandra Day O'Connor, herself a dogged questioner, has become "exasperated" by Scalia...
...lone dissenter was Justice Antonin Scalia, who took the unusual step of summarizing his dissent aloud. In a lengthy argument that contained an acid reference to "our former constitutional system," he suggested that even the slightest diminution of Executive power by Congress is unconstitutional. If the Executive Branch cannot be trusted to investigate itself, he asserted, the voters and not Congress should remedy the situation...
...frustration in Scalia's tone was one sign of the ambiguous results of Reagan's effort to nudge the high bench to the right. In the term just ended, the Justices sent out mixed signals on everything from privacy rights to criminal law. Consider some of last week's other notable decisions...
When the decision came down last week, however, the result was less clear cut. Four Justices -- Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall and Stevens -- ruled that the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids capital punishment for any offenders who committed their crimes before reaching 16. Three others -- Rehnquist, Scalia and White -- said the Constitution posed no such barrier. Justice Kennedy did not participate...