Tag Archives: Antonin Scalia

U.S. Supreme Court: The Shape of One’s Soul and the Color of One’s Conscience

Posted on February 17, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud (Column originally published at Morning Open Thread on Daily Kos) Justice Antonin Scalia (front row, second from left) is dead. I assume that the President will do his job and nominate a new Justice. Then the great … Continue reading →

Posted in Abraham Lincoln, American History, Barack Obama, George Washington, Illinois, SCOTUS, Senate | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Is a WOMAN a PERSON? The Answer You Get Depends on Who You Ask

Posted on October 27, 2015 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Is a Woman a Person?” The answer “Yes, of course,” may seem obvious, but it’s not so clear-cut in American law. When a sitting Supreme Court Justice says that the Equal Protection clause of the 14th … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Canada, Reproductive Rights, SCOTUS, United States, Women's Rights | Tagged , , , | 38 Comments

Justice Antonin Scalia: The Bard of the Bench? (With a Mark Fiore Political Cartoon Video)

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Award-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore said that it only seemed fitting “to use Antonin Scalia’s own words for a poetry slam, since the justice’s snarky dissents are filled with so many poetic gems.”  Fiore noted that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Government, Health Care, Homosexual Rights, Humor, Jurisprudence, Poetry, Politics, SCOTUS, Short Video, United States | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

Picture of the Day for June 26, 2015: On the Subject of Same-Sex Marriage and Justice Antonin Scalia

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

Posted by Elaine Magliaro I couldn’t resist posting this picture today.

Posted in Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Equal Rights, Government, Homosexual Rights, Jurisprudence, Justice, Political Science, Politics, SCOTUS, Society, United States | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Joins the Torture Debate…Once Again Claiming That Nothing in the Constitution Prohibits It

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Mark Sherman of the Associated Press reported today that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was “joining the debate over the Senate’s torture report by saying it’s hard to rule out the use of extreme measures to extract … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Government, Hypocrisy, Media, Politics, Society, United States | Tagged , , , , | 45 Comments

Antonin Scalia’s Thoughts on Secularists, the Devil, the Separation of Church and State, and Religion in the Public Square

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Antonin Scalia on the Separation of Church and State Antonin Scalia is our country’s longest-serving Supreme Court Justice. Scalia, a Catholic, was appointed to the highest court in the land by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Free Speech, Government, Jurisprudence, Politics, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, SCOTUS, United Kingdom | Tagged , , , , | 14 Comments

A Mark Fiore Video Cartoon: “Tradition”–On Having an Originalist Respect for Our Roots

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

SUBMITTED BY ELAINE MAGLIARO In the following cartoon video, Mark Fiore ponders what life might be like in this country if we lived in the same kind of society Americans did at the time our Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution. … Continue reading →

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Just for Fun on Friday: A Mark Fiore Video Starring Antonin Scalia As Archie Bunker

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

BY ELAINE MAGLIARO Since posting the story about Chevron going after Pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore yesterday, I’ve been watching more of Fiore’s videos. I thought some of you would enjoy the following video he made of Antonin Scalia … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Humor, Politics, SCOTUS | Tagged , | 3 Comments