De mortius nilhi nisi bonum— Speak no ill of the dead.   Despite the Latin injunction not to bad mouth the dead, it is impossible to say much good about Justice Antonin Scalia. Yet Adam Liptak, New York Times Supreme Court reporter, stretched the truth to say much good in his story of Scalia’s recent death at 79. Liptak cited Scalia’s “transformative legal theory.” … [Read more...]

With the Nevada and South Carolina results in the rear-view mirror, the chief topic of the presidential campaigns now will probably focus on the nomination of a Supreme Court justice to replace the recently departed Antonin Scalia. The lines on both sides have been drawn with President Obama announcing that he will “in due time” forward a nominee to the Senate. As for the … [Read more...]

Justice Antonin Scalia is an unbelievably retrograde thinker. He constantly dissents angrily in cases dealing with gay rights. Consider two cases: • In Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court invalidated a Texas statute banning homosexual relations (2003): “Today’s opinion is the product of a court that has signed on to the homosexual agenda,” Scalia wrote. “It eliminates … [Read more...]