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Alex Pfeiffer The Daily Caller 6/26/2015 …Thomas’ dissent focused on the idea of negative rights, “As one later commentator observed, ‘[L]iberty in the eighteenth century was thought of much more in relation to ‘negative liberty’; that is, freedom from, not freedom to, freedom from a number of social and political evils, including arbitrary government power,’” […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: "disparate impact claims", 1968 Fair Housing Act, due process, gay marriage, human dignity, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, same sex marriage, slavery | Category: Civil rights, Racism, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Lydia Wheeler and Ben Kamisar The Hill 6/26/2015 The Supreme Court in an historic 5-4 ruling on Friday said there is a right to same-sex marriage in all 50 states, delivering a monumental win for gay and lesbian couples across the country. Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the swing vote on the court, sided with its […] June 26th, 2015 | Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, culture, gay marriage, homosexuals, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, Obergefell v. Hodges, religious liberty, same sex marriage, Star Parker, The Radiance Foundation | Category: 14th Amendment, religion, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Tim Grieve National Journal 6/26/2013 Dissenting from this morning’s opinion on the Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Antonin Scalia – as expected – holds nothing back. In a ripping dissent, Scalia says that Justice Anthony Kennedy and his colleagues in the majority have resorted to calling opponents of gay marriage “enemies of the human race.” […] June 26th, 2013 | Tags: “Rush Limbaugh Show”, Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), gay marriage, Hollingsworth v. Perry, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, Prop 8, same sex marriage, tax-exempt, traditional marriage, United States v. Windsor, Vladimir Putin | Category: 10th Amendment, Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, IRS, Politics, Progressives, religion, Russia, SCOTUS, States, Taxes | Comments are closed
Orin Kerr The Volokh Conspiracy 3/26/2013 At the oral argument today in Hollingsworth v. Perry, Justice Scalia repeatedly questioned Ted Olson on when same-sex marriage became unconstitutional. From the transcript: JUSTICE SCALIA: I’m curious, when - when did — when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the Fourteenth […] March 26th, 2013 | Tags: Doug Mainwaring, gay marriage, Hollingsworth v. Perry, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, National Capital Tea Party Patriots, Prop 8, same sex marriage, Theodore Olson | Category: California, SCOTUS, Tea Parties | Comments are closed
Tony Lee Breitbart.com Big Government 2 Nov 2012 Whoever wins next week’s presidential election may shape the Supreme Court for the next generation of Americans, highlighting how important Tuesday’s election is to the high court’s future constitutional integrity. Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy — both of whom were appointed by President Ronald Reagan — […] November 3rd, 2012 | Tags: activist judges, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Ruth Ginsburg, Mitt Romney | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, law enforcement, Politicians, Progressives, SCOTUS, US Constitution | Comments are closed
How conservative legal philosophy helped create the health care ruling We must beware the dangerous temptation to read our own values into the Constitution and to assume that anything we think good is in there somewhere and anything we think is bad is forbidden. Sheldon Richman Reason Magazine 7/8/2012 Amid all of Chief […] July 8th, 2012 | Tags: American Medical Association, Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, Chief Justice John Roberts, Commerce Clause, conservatives, enumerated powers, Federalism, individual mandate, jurisprudence, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, NFIB v. Sebelius, nullification, Robert Bork | Category: Congress, Fascism, federal mandates, Health Care, Medicine, Politicians, SCOTUS, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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