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...case in 1989. At that time just two states, Georgia and Maryland, forbade it. Now 18 do--almost half the number, 38, that permit capital punishment. In the majority opinion he wrote last week, John Paul Stevens called that a "dramatic shift in the state legislative landscape." Antonin Scalia, who wrote for the dissenters--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas were the other two--declared that the majority's decision rested upon nothing but "the personal views of its members...
...strict separation of church and state, as evidenced in recent decisions allowing Bible clubs to meet on school grounds and providing textbooks for religious groups on public school campuses. The Court split on its traditional conservative/swing bloc lines as Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote the opinion for Justices O'Connor, Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy...
...decision drew an interesting divide through the Court; Justice Breyer, considered one of the Court's most liberal members, does not usually side with conservative stalwarts Thomas or Scalia, but on this occasion he did, joined also by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Kennedy. Breyer has sided with the conservative side on drug and seizure cases before...
...implications - political as well as legal. The majority opinion, written by Justice John Paul Stevens, described the changing landscape of American opinion on the subject, citing numerous state legislatures that have outlawed the practice. Dissenting from the majority were Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who penned a scathing rebuttal to their colleagues' opinion. The three judges have expressed frequent and vocal displeasure over what they consider the Court's softening attitude toward the death penalty. For years there has been widespread speculation that Court moderates Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor...
...Gonzales’ record on the Texas Supreme Court, in short, is not that of a Scalia-style conservative. And Gonzales’s friends from the period confirm that the record honestly reflected his judicial philosophy,” the New Republic wrote...