The Political Thought of Justice Antonin Scalia: A Hamiltonian on the Supreme Court
Porter County Politics (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Chicago Sun-Times Article On the eve of today's 221st anniversary of the U.S. Constitution's adoption, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told conservative lawyers in Chicago that the University of Chicago Law School — where he used to teach — has lost its edge and gone liberal. Back in the days when Scalia — the court's most vocal supporter of adhering...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
"The Alienator: Making sense of Justice Scalia's personality--and his theory." Online at Slate, Emily Bazelon has this review of Joan Biskupic's new book, "American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia." And at "The BLT: The...
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
In this installment of Slate V's Bookmark, author Joan Biskupic relates a pair of revealing anecdotes from her new biography of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
How Appealing (Free subscription) | yesterday
"'American Original' by Joan Biskupic: A new biography shows the intellectual prowess -- and interpretive liberties -- of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia." In today's edition of The Los Angeles Times, Jim Newton has this review of Joan Biskupic's new...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Just about everyone knows now that Justice Antonin Scalia likes to hunt. Those sporting instincts were painfully revealed when controversy erupted over his refusal to recuse himself from a case involving then-Vice President Dick Cheney shortly after he went duck...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority in Heller , "nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill." But as the 7th Circuit noted in a case involving a man who was caught with a shotgun...
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
In Joan Biskupic's new biography of Antonin Scalia, American Original, the justice wears a wreath of superlatives. He is the most quoted member of the Supreme Court and the one scholars write about most. He is the justice who writes the most concurrences—separate opinions that accept the holding of a majority opinion but usually part company with its reasoning. He is also the justice...
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Antonin Scalia is apparently doing a speaking tour supporting the "originalist" interpretation of the Constitution, whereby a justice has to use his or her telepathic powers to read the minds of people who died 200 years ago, a power they only use for the fair and correct application of the law. The fact that it ends up being pretty unfair to anyone who isn't a wealthy, white...
