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5 days ago · My “top 10” list is made up of cases that have done the most to shape the field as a while or the implementation of a major environmental statute. Putting together this list highlighted a decades-long duel between two Justices, Antonin Scalia and John Paul Stevens. Often, Scalia voted against the environmental side and Stevens voted for it.
4 days ago · “Aye” and “Yea” mean the same thing, and so do “No” and “Nay”. Congress uses different words in different sorts of votes. The U.S. Constitution says that bills should be decided on by the “yeas and nays” (Article I, Section 7).
5 days ago · And for some reason Justice Samuel Alito can’t stop talking about this witch trial judge. Shawn Musgrave. May 16 2024, 7:34 p.m. ... who clerked for late Justice Antonin Scalia and notoriously ...
6 days ago · Common Cause first pointed out glaring ethical violations by the Supreme Court more than a decade ago when it exposed unreported travel by then-Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas. The research that led to those revelations also found that Justice Thomas for years had annually failed to report his wife’s income – much of it ...
6 days ago · David Foster Wallace > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing.
4 days ago · Tom recruited the initial core faculty, a superb group comprised of Joe Falvey, Steve Sefranek, Laura Hirshfeld, and two people who have faithfully served you and all of your predecessors: Professors Mollie Murphy and Rich Myers. The conversations that weekend were exhilarating and fruitful. The most notable attendee was Justice Antonin Scalia.
4 days ago · Ninety-eight senators vote to confirm Scalia. The two who did not do so abstained from the vote but did not vote against him. Joe Biden, when serving as vice president years later, said that he regretted not fighting against Scalia, saying the justice was too conservative and radical, but was persuasive in the 1980s.
