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LA Times’ Oliphant discusses SCOTUS and religion

A few weeks ago, I noted that with the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court of the United States would no longer have a Protestant Christian as a member. Now James Oliphant,...

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Scalia: gays and women not included in “any person”

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia believes that women and gay people are not protected by the constitution from state mandated and enforced discrimination. (SF Chronicle) The U.S. Constitution does...

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The problem with constitutional originalism

I am not a constitutional scholar. I’m not even an attorney. But I am a fairly logical person who has great respect for the intents and purposes of the US Constitution and who is troubled by efforts on...

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Just in: Scalia finds objecting to homosexuality is like objecting to murder

Okay, that’s not news. It’s not even all that interesting. Unless you consider that a Supreme Court justice is so extremely biased against one segment of the US population that he is incapable of...

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Duncan Hosie, Scalia’s questioner: new gay hero

No this is not Ron Howard The student who questioned Scalia’s extremely offensive legal writing during his Princeton appearance has caught the attention of the politically aware. His student...

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I’ll tell you when, Justice Scalia

JUSTICE SCALIA: You — you’ve led me right into a question I was going to ask. The California Supreme Court decides what the law is. That’s what we decide, right? We don’t prescribe law for the future....

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Guess What? You’re An Invented Minority!

So says U.S Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: In an apparent reference to the court’s recent decisions on gay marriage and benefits for same-sex couples, Scalia said it is not the function of the...

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Admit it. All You Really Want To Do Is Read Scalia’s Dissent.

You know you want to. Where else will you find a Supreme Court decision compared to “the mystical aphorisms of a fortune cookie?” So here it is. But before we dive in, let’s look at Scalia’s classic...

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Justice Scalia found dead

The Supreme Court has been a body in political balance with three liberal justices, three conservative justices, and Justice Kennedy who, in the middle, often swung the majority. But there has been...

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Dead Scalia’s Legacy

If Scalia’s death doesn’t sharpen our attention to what’s really at stake in the 2016 elections, I don’t think anything else will. It’s tempting to think that we’re not likely to see the likes of...

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