Word: scalia
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...April 25, Reagan's three Supreme Court appointees--Justices Kennedy, O'Connor, and Scalia--joined Justices Rehnquist and White and voted to reconsider the right of minorities to sue private parties for racial discrimination under a post-Civil War statute, section 1981 of Title 42 of the United States Code. If the Court overturns section 1981, as it is expected to do, it will be the first time in 100 years that the Court has overturned a precedent expanding minority rights...
Would George Washington have run for office, asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, if he had been the target of vicious parodies? But Washington was lampooned, replied Attorney Alan Isaacman. In 1789 he was depicted riding an ass. "I think George could handle that," said Scalia. "That's a far cry from committing incest with your mother in an outhouse...
...left, in particular, has waged its fight with an almost palpable sense of vengeance. Some liberals want to make up for their leadership's rather lax opposition to the promotion of William Rehnquist to Chief Justice and the appointment of conservative Antonin Scalia to the court last year. Moreover, with only 16 months remaining in the Reagan Administration, the Bork issue has become a device to galvanize and unify the disparate interest groups on the left. Neas is overseeing a "megacoalition" of prominent liberal organizations, including the N.A.A.C.P., Common Cause, People for the American Way, the National Organization for Women...
...which he concurred in the dismissal of a libel suit brought by Bertell Ollman, a Marxist college professor, against the conservative columnists Evans and Novak. In language that went beyond Supreme Court decisions on the matter (and which provoked a sharp rebuttal joined by his then colleague Antonin Scalia), Bork wrote that a "remarkable upsurge" in libel suits and damage awards "has threatened to impose a self-censorship on the press" as effective as government censorship. Because the core value of a free press is clearly part of the original intent of the First Amendment, he argues, judges in this...
...anti-Roe majority. The court still includes four staunch supporters of Roe: Harry Blackmun, the author of the decision, plus Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan and John Paul Stevens. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White both dissented from Roe and would probably vote against it again. Antonin Scalia is thought to be against abortion. Bork would make four firmly against. But Sandra Day O'Connor is a question mark, and may become the swing vote in any majority. While O'Connor believes the court has gone too far in preventing states from regulating abortion, she may be reluctant to toss...