Supreme Court Justice Scalia: Roe v. Wade Not in Constitution

Justice Scalia: No, The Constitution Doesn't Protect Chicks And Gays Just Because They Are Chicks And Gays
Behold the awesome that is Antonin Scalia! (Interviewer) In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex Discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we've gone off in error by applying the 14th Amendment to both? (Justice Scalia) Yes, yes. Sorry, to tell you that. ... But, you know, if indeed the current society has come to different views, ...

Silly Women.You have no rights protecting you from discriminationaccording to a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect against Discrimination on the basis of gender or Sexual Orientation, according to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don’t think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we’ve gone off in error by ap...

Scalia Says Women Dont Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination: Amanda Terkel Reports
Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination by Amanda Terkel Huffington Post, January 3, 2011 WASHINGTON — The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gender or Sexual Orientation, according to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In a newly published interview in the legal magazine California Lawyer, Scalia said that while the Constitution does not disallow the pa...

NYT editorial: There He Goes Again
Justice Antonin Scalia has a knack for drawing unflattering light to himself and the Supreme Court. Recall, for example, when he refused to recuse himself from a case involving the energy Task Force run by Dick Cheney, his friend and duck-hunting companion, when Mr. Cheney was vice president. Justice Scalia is now getting attention for his outlandish view, expressed in an interview in the magazine California Lawyer, that the promise of equal protection in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment do...

Justice Scalia: Women not constitutionally protected from discrimination (The Lookout)
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in a recently published interview that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment does not prohibit Discrimination based on gender or Sexual Orientation. "Certainly the Constitution does not require Discrimination on the basis of sex," Scalia told California Lawyer. "The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. Nobody ever thought that that's what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that. If the current society wants to outlaw discriminati...

Antonin Scalia: The Constitution Does Not Bar Discrimination Against Women
In a new interview, Justice Antonin Scalia says that the 14th Amendment does not bar Discrimination against women, whether it's done by public or private entities. He couldn't be more wrong....

Women and Gay Gunloons Played for Chumps
Gunloons, like the GOP, like to pretend they're far more diverse than they are. That's when the gunloons find the rara avis that is a gay or woman gunloon, they publicize the gunloon far and wide. Well, female and gay gunloons, the gunloon's favorite gunloon Supreme Court Justice, Fat Tony Scalia says the Bill of Rights doesn't protect women or gays from Discrimination. Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It...

Young named Michigan Supreme Court's chief justice
A breakdown of the vote on the seven-member court was not immediately released. But Young, a nominee of the Republican Party, was widely expected to benefit from the GOP’s return to majority after the November election. Young was appointed to the state appeals court by former Gov. John Engler in 1995, and to the Supreme Court in 1999. Contact Dawson Bell: 517-372-8661 or [email protected]. ...

Scalia Agrees To Speak To New Conservative Members on the Constitution
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is again in the midst of Controversy with his decision to accept an invitation from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to speak to incoming conservative members about the Constitution as part of their training. Bachmann, the founder of the House’s Tea Party Caucus, is leading efforts to Repeal Health Care and seek new Legislation based on a more conservative view of the Constitution. The decision to participate in such an event shows exceedingly poor judgment....

Battle over money to manage Wyatt jail in R.I. Supreme Court
The governing board of the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, above, contends that it does not owe $182,833 to Avcorr Management. PROVIDENCE — The firm that formerly managed the troubled Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility contends that the jail’s governing board owes it nearly $183,000. The Legal Battle over the money, dating to last spring, has wound its way through Superior Court and has now landed in the state Supreme Court. Last month, the High Court issued a stay that gives the...

Now Thats Restraint
In pointing out that it’s hard to square Antonin Scalia’s assertions that the 14th Amendment provides no protection for gender equality with the rest of his jurisprudence, I didn’t even haul out the heaviest artillery. I think it’s safe to say that none of the framers or ratifers of the 14th Amendment thought they were voting for the principle that “states have to have uniform standards for vote counts and Recounts,” let alone “states have to have unifor...

Supreme Court Chief Justice Swears In Boehner's Staff
John G. Roberts Jr., the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, swore in President Obama - twice. But Chief Justice Roberts is apparently Bipartisan in his willingness to swear in federal employees. On Tuesday morning, he presided over a closed-door ceremony in the offices of the soon-to-be House Speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, to swear in the lawmaker’s staff a day before Republicans are scheduled to take control of the House chamber. Employees of the Federal Government are all required...

Does Statistical Significance Stink?
Steve Ziliak emails: Dear Mark, When is anosmia - the permanent loss of smell - "significant"? [There is] a Supreme Court case - to be argued on January 10, 2011 - involving the difference between "statistical" and "practical" significance. Should drug manufacturers and other companies be required to report the adverse effect of a product on users, if the effect is not statistically significantly different from zero at the 5% level? Can people file claims against ...

Obama Will Try Again On More Than A Dozen Judicial Nominees
What is this? The White House will tomorrow renominate more than a dozen Candidates for judicial positions on federal courts, a person familiar with the administration's plans tells NPR. The Senate failed to vote on the nominees before the last Congressional term expired last month. In all, the Senate never took an Up or Down vote on 19 of the Obama Administration's judicial nominees, leaving them stranded at the end of the congressional session. Among those the president will ren...

Obama Will Try Again On More Than A Dozen Judicial Nominees
What is this? The White House will tomorrow renominate more than a dozen Candidates for judicial positions on federal courts, a person familiar with the administration's plans tells NPR. The Senate failed to vote on the nominees before the last Congressional term expired last month. In all, the Senate never took an Up or Down vote on 19 of the Obama Administration's judicial nominees, leaving them stranded at the end of the congressional session. Among those the president will ren...

Environmental victory for Liberal majority may be short-lived
In a decision that stunned many in the state of Michigan, leftwing justices of the Michigan Supreme Court made one last statement in their last hours as Majority Leader by overturning a landmark 2004 decision that will allow citizens to sue environmental Regulators. Amongst those disturbed by this decision if Conservative Justice Robert Young Jr. whom is in line to become the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.  Justice Young is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has held a posit...

Whats Going on With the New Jersey Supreme Court?
What’s Going on With the New Jersey Supreme Court? Yahoo! Buzz Take your eyes off of New Jersey for a few days and you’ll almost surely miss a strange political dustup or two. The latest to play out among our friends across the Hudson River involves the New Jersey Supreme Court. A political feud playing out between Gov. Chris Christie and Democratic lawmakers is threatening to leave the court short two justices come September. Click here for the WSJ story; here for the NYT story; her...

Chief Justice Roberts to Privately Swear in Boehner Aides to Uphold the Constitution
Off to a good start. (Politico)- In another statement of the new House Republican majority’s commitment to the Constitution, aides to incoming Speaker John Boehner plan to take their oath of office Tuesday morning — a day before the same oath is administered to the 435 House members of the new Congress. At Boehner’s request, Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over the staff ceremony, which may be a first in congressional history. Aides in Boehner’s Washington and di...

Problems with Health Care Reform
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) allows federal Tax Dollars to directly subsidize Insurance plans that cover Abortions. This contravenes existing law.  The most well-known examples of the prohibition on the use of federal Tax Dollars to subsidize Insurance plans that cover abortions are the Hyde Amendment which applies to programs funded through the Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) appropriations bill and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). The...

Justice Scalia Teaches Seminars on Constitution to Congress
At the invitation of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will hold a seminar on the tenants of the Constitution for the House of Representatives. The seminar on January 12th will be held one hour before the House vote to Repeal ObamaCare. Some reports indicate seminars will be held bi-monthly, and others say there will be weekly meetings. In the video below, Bachmann says those interested in the Constitution will meet once a week to study it, the Declaration of I...

Adopt a Dissenting Book: Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Courts Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice
The Freedom Center’s new campus campaign will aid Students in encouraging their Professors to adopt books into their classes which express ideas that are often neglected in today’s academia. To download the student guide click here. Sign the petition to adopt a dissenting book here. To read David Horowitz’s Speech about the campaign click here. At NRB we’ll be featuring all 150 recommendations of Dissenting Books in our NRB Book Club Feature. Click here to see t

Prop 8 Case: Appeals Court Asks CA Supreme Court For Help
A federal appeals court has asked the California Supreme Court to help answer a question about who has standing to fight same sex marriage in the courts. At issue is whether the anti-gay groups who put Proposition 8 on the ballot in California have the legal standing to appeal a decision that Prop 8 -- which outlaws same sex marriage in the state -- is Unconstitutional. Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing that appeal, asked the California High Court to decide whether t...

The Fourteenth Amendments Guarantee of Birthright Citizenship
The American Constitution Society takes no position on particular legal or policy initiatives. All expressions of opinion are those of the Guest Bloggers. ACS encourages its members to express their views and make their voices heard in order to further a rigorous discussion of important issues. Editor's Note: Elizabeth Wydra authored an ACS Issue Brief on the 14th Amendment's birthright Citizenship clause and the efforts by some Tea Party groups and others to undermine the clause, which provides...

Scalia speech to new legislators faulted
Published: Jan. 5, 2011 at 11:01 AM Some legal scholars are criticizing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's plan to speak to House freshmen about the Constitution. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg Under the U.S. Supreme Court: 'Ho, ho, ho, who wouldn't go' -- to court and sue? WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Some legal scholars are criticizing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's plan to speak to House freshmen about the Constitution. He was invited by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., foun...

Read It and Weep
How the Tea Party's fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble. By Dahlia Lithwick Slate.com Posted Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 A reading of the Constitution during a Tea Party Patriots rallyMembers of the Tea Party are really into the Constitution. We know this because on Thursday, House Republicans propose to read the document from start to finish on the House floor, and they also propose to pass a rule requiring that every piece of new Legislation identify the source of its cons...