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Supreme Court Justice Scalia: Women's Rights Not in Constitution
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySorry to tell you this, but Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's conservative stalwart, says the Constitution does not protect women or gay Americans from discrimination. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution -- equal protection under the law -- does not apply to sex discrimination, Scalia said in a recent interview, the Washington Post reports. Fielding a question from California Lawyer magazine, the justice said: "You know, if indeed the current society has come to different views, that's fine. You do not need the Constitution to reflect the wishes of the current society. Certainly, the ...
Justice Antonin Scalia Says 'Yes' to Tea Party Invitation
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyRep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has scored a big name as keynote speaker for her Tea Party Caucus next month. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia accepted the congresswoman's invitation to address the panel and headline what's being billed as a "Conservative Constitutional Seminar," USA Today reported Thursday. The weekly meetings are officially for members of Bachmann's caucus, but Yahoo News said she hopes "all the members of Congress" will attend. She plans on inviting Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts for future sessions. Bachmann, a tea party favorite, told USA Today ...
Supreme Court Justice Scalia Content in 'Brave New' Digital World
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTurns out Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the high court's senior conservative light, loves his digital gadgets. The 74-year-old Scalia told a recent meeting of the Federalist Society that he downloads his own music into an iPod -- mostly classical and opera -- and studies legal briefs on his own iPad, the Washington Post reported. Ok, his staff loads the documents, but still Scalia chuckled, "I don't have to schlep the briefs around... Oh, it's a brave new world." Despite his digital delights, Scalia remains unenthusiastic about the prospect televising Supreme Court hearings. ...
The Supreme Court: Forget Televising It; Get the Justices on Twitter
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailySupreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia evidently has earned the nickname "Mr. Clueless" from his wife, Maureen, because he knows little about technology and nothing at all about Twitter. "I don't even know what it is, to tell you the truth," Justice Scalia told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial & Administrative Law this past week. He had been asked by Rep Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.), clearly no master, either, of 140-character expression: "Have any of y'all have ever considered Tweeting or Twitting?" We should all be happy that the Justices from time to time use computers instead of ...
'Dangerous' Sex Offenders Can Be Imprisoned Indefinitely, Supreme Court Rules
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal officials can indefinitely hold inmates considered "sexually dangerous," even after they have completed their prison sentences, the Associated Press reports. The court overturned the 4th District Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia, which said Congress overstepped its legal authority in allowing extended detention of certain sex offenders. In the case of United States v. Comstock, the justices voted 7-2 to overturn the lower court's opinion. "The statute is a 'necessary and proper' means of exercising the federal authority that permits Congress to ...
C-SPAN Supreme Court Book: Conservative Justices Suggest Caseload Increase
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyC-SPAN, the treasured chronicler of American public affairs, has yet again provided a valuable service with a new documentary book about the Supreme Court. As is the case when it televises political proceedings, the sheer relentlessness of its pursuit of governmental monotony has ginned up some truly insightful nuggets from the justices. It's as if the sound of Brian Lamb's voice has lulled the otherwise un-lullable into actually revealing some pertinent off-the-bench thoughts. The most significant news item in the book, intentionally or unintentionally revealed, is that it is the Court's ...
Speculation Begins to Build About an Obama Court
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Feb. 5) – With so much else going on, there's been little time during the first year of the Obama administration to ask a perennial question of presidential politics: What's likely to happen to the Supreme Court? ABC News weighed in Thursday with speculation that two liberal Supreme Court justices – John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg – could step down during Obama's first term. Stevens, 89, didn't hire a full team of clerks for the spring. He also told reporters, "This can't be news. I'm not a kid." And Ginsburg, 76, has undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer. ...
Justice Scalia: 'I Have Religious Views...They Have Nothing to Do with My Job'
By Joan Biskupic - Politics DailySupreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has never passed up the opportunity in abortion cases to remind his colleagues that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision continues to divide America. In a 2000 dissenting opinion, he chided such centrist conservatives as Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy for earlier predicting a truce of sorts in the abortion wars."While I am in an I-told-you-so-mood," he wrote in Stenberg v. Carhart, "I must recall my bemusement ... at the ... expressed belief that Roe v. Wade had 'called the contending sides of the national controversy to end their national division' ... ...
Following the Sonia Soap Opera (Lindsey Graham Likes Her! He Really Likes Her!)
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyHow did Judge Sonia Sotomayor do it? She sat there – and that broken ankle had to be aching – as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee engaged in the usual political posturing and speechifying, appealing to their bases and the cameras. And they asked a question here and there. ...
Barney Frank Calls Justice Antonin Scalia a 'Homophobe'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyFox News online is reporting that Frank made the comment to what it calls "a gay online news site," as opposed to a gay news site that rents a storefront and tells people the news if they walk up to it. From Fox News:"At some point, [the Defense of Marriage Act] is going to have to go to the United States Supreme Court," the congressman, a Democrat, said. "I wouldn't want it to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has got too many votes on this current court." The report goes on to explain that the basis for Frank's comment is likely the text of ...
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