The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia this weekend sent shockwaves across the nation’s political and legal establishment, producing torrents of commentary about his ...
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Possible nominees to replace Scalia on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Republicans are near-unanimous in demanding that President Barack Obama leave it to his successor to nominate a candidate to fill the Supreme Court ...
Read More »Scalia tributes transcend ideology: ‘We were best buddies’
“He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh,” the liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in a statement.
Read More »In victory or dissent, Scalia was a man of strong opinions
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia kept your attention, whether you liked him or not. He was a big personality who rather enjoyed the ...
Read More »Scalia death harms conservative chances on unions, abortion
Justice Antonin Scalia’s death will have an immediate effect on some of the country’s most contentious legal questions, undercutting conservative hopes of winning sweeping victories ...
Read More »Obama to nominate Scalia successor ‘in due time’
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared Saturday night he would seek to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin ...
Read More »Justice Antonin Scalia dead at 79
Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died. He was 79.
Read More »Reaction to Justice Antonin Scalia’s death
Influential conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in West Texas, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Saturday. He was 79. Reaction to his death ...
Read More »McArdle: Courts face limits on color-blind equality
Affirmative action is an unfair solution to an unfair problem, and even if you are less bothered by this unfairness than by the unfairness of 250 years of slavery, this makes affirmative action politically unstable.
Read More »Noah Feldman: Supreme Court’s big year ends with Big Love
Is the Supreme Court of 2013 radically liberal or radically conservative? The answer, it turns out, is both.
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