Antonin Scalia

'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation

2013-05-17 15:00:00

At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...

Peter Sagal's 'Constitution USA' hits the road with humor

2013-05-07 07:00:00

NEW YORK — If someone told you of a barnstorming TV host who interviewed people around the country about a given subject, you'd say it sounds like a lot of the road-trip reality series that have proliferated on cable TV. But what if that host...

Supreme Court won't revive Alabama immigration law

2013-04-29 19:30:00

WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court made it clear Monday that enforcing immigration laws was reserved for the federal government, not the states. By an 8-1 vote, the justices rejected a request from Alabama to revive part of a 2011 law designed to drive...

Chasm divides gun control and gun rights advocates

2013-04-21 18:38:00

SACRAMENTO — "Living in parallel universes," is how Senate leader Darrell Steinberg describes it. Gun control and gun rights advocates "talking past each other." Emanating from different cultures, incapable of agreeing on how to make us all...

Letters: The language of Justice Scalia

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Re "Scalia's poison pen," Opinion, April 14 Bigoted as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's views on homosexuality seem, he makes a valid legal point by intimating that equal protection claims asserted to support gay marriage similarly support...

What now on gun control?

2013-04-18 00:00:00

Despite the mounting casualties of gun violence and a brutal massacre that left 20 children dead in Newtown, Conn., the Senate on Wednesday failed to pass a bipartisan compromise to widen background checks for potential purchasers of guns as well as...

Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits

2013-04-17 19:15:00

WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...

Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts

2013-04-17 08:34:00

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that U.S. courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding lawsuits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed out a...

Supreme Court hears custody dispute over adopted girl

2013-04-16 23:05:00

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to decide who should raise a 3 1/2-year-old girl who was given up by her single mother: the South Carolina couple who adopted her at birth or her biological father, who invoked his rights as a...

Antonin Scalia's anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him

2013-04-14 00:00:00

It seems these days as if everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made...

Prop. 8: Antonin Scalia surprisingly tame in gay marriage hearing

2013-03-27 05:11:00

Justice Scalia lays a gay marriage trap for Ted Olson. There was a silly fertility joke about Strom Thurmond, but Scalia Watchers hoping to see the famously acid-tongued justice in action were out of luck Tuesday. The irascible U.S. Supreme Court...

Conservative justices hint at procedural barrier to DOMA ruling

2013-03-27 10:03:00

WASHINGTON -- Two of the Supreme Court's most conservative members suggested Wednesday that procedural barriers should prevent the justices from ruling on the constitutionality of the federal law that denies benefits to legally married same-sex couples,...

Commentator Bill O'Reilly, left, talks with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia during the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on April 27.

2013-04-27 20:53:00

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, left, talks with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia during the White House correspondents' dinner.

2013-04-27 00:00:00

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

2013-04-12 12:46:11