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Jun 26, 2015 · J ustice Antonin Scalia told his Supreme Court colleagues that their legal reasoning in the court’s 5-4 ruling that states must license same-sex marriage and recognize similar unions from...
Feb 14, 2016 · Scalia's stance on gay rights demonstrated his originalist view: He believed the Constitution couldn't protect gay rights, because no one could envision, for example, same-sex...
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Jun 26, 2015 · In his dissent in the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, seen here in 2011, showed contempt for his colleagues. The legal world may have...
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How Antonin Scalia helped open the door to gay marriage nationwide. In retrospect, the high court's ruling was the moment of sea change predicted by the famously acerbic justice. (Image...
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- Anthony Kennedy should write fortune cookies. Much of Scalia’s dissent reads less like a judicial opinion than a piece of withering literary criticism.
- Hippies know the truth about what marriage does your sex-life. In his majority opinion, Kennedy writes: “The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality.”
- Californians are not "genuine westerners" In lamenting the usurpation of the legislature by an unrepresentative group of justices, Scalia offered this assessment of the Supreme Court’s demographic diversity
- If you want to stay married, you better watch your mouth. Responding to Kennedy’s claim that marriage helps couples discover greater freedom of expression, Scalia writes
Feb 16, 2016 · Feb 16, 20161:33 PM. Justice Antonin Scalia in December 2006. Alex Wong/Getty Images. One of the things that makes legal scholars and legal geeks tick is the challenge of separating out what...
Feb 14, 2016 · “By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition,” Scalia wrote in dissent in 2013 when the court struck down part of a federal anti-gay marriage law.
