When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suggested last week that allowing judges in a democracy to decide which minorities to protect could encourage pederasts and child molesters to seek ...
In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On a cold January day in 2012, a senator walked into the U.S. Capitol, banged ...
Justice Antonin Scalia turns 75 years old today. Like all birthdays of all controversial public figures that end in 'five' or 'zero' it is being treated as an oppurtunity to make sense of his legacy.
Kavanaugh said in his 2016 speech that those two dissents are a sign of how Scalia believed that courts had “no legitimate role … in creating new rights not spelled out in the Constitution.” “For ...
In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On a cold January day in 2012, a senator walked […] The post The concurrence ...