Comments on: Decisions: campaign finance limits nullified; five rulings overall

By: qaz

qaz — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:22:40 +0000

What about the Texas redisriting case? Thanks

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:07:33 +0000

It’s about time!

By: moxfulder1

moxfulder1 — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:29:02 +0000

wow. Scalia’s concurrence in Marsh was about as awesome as Breyer’s dissent in Arlington was embarrassing.

three cheers for common sense, and three cheers for textualism.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:43:18 +0000

The campaign case is another example of Justice Breyer taking some centrist position that underlines he is not the kneejerk liberal some stereotype him as. Two others involved school drug testing and funding of computers etc. to religious schools.

Scalia, et. al. aren’t as kneejerk as people think, but the kneejerking works both ways, which is not suprising, though still worth noting now and again.

By: PatHMV

PatHMV — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:15:41 +0000

The Scalia vs. Alito vote should put to rest the "Scalito" name-calling.

I'm very pleased with the result in Gonzales-Lopez. The defendant demonstrated, almost conclusively, that his counsel of choice would have produced a much different outcome. The key government witness was left intact by the attorney he was forced to use, while his attorney of choice destroyed the witness' credibility in a post-trial deposition. As Justice Scalia pointed out, if the dissent were to have prevailed, then there would be no right granted by the 6th Amendment which was not granted by the Due Process Clause; the 6th Amendment would have effectively been written out of the Constitution.

By: johnlex

johnlex — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:30:41 +0000

Scalia’s concurrence in Marsh mischaracterizes the facts about the innocence research. It’s a great read, much like fiction is.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:08:58 +0000

Will wonders never cease….

SCALIA, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which STEVENS, SOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER, JJ., joined. ALITO, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and KENNEDY and THOMAS, JJ., joined.

Scalia went with the “liberal wing”; he must be getting old.

By: federalist

federalist — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:43:22 +0000

Scalia’s concurrence in Marsh is a great read. He really takes some of the dissenters to task.

By: valpodogs

valpodogs — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:56:54 +0000

Arlington School District was 6-3 with Alito writing and Ginsburg concurring separately. Not 5-4.