Antonin Scalia

Carroll County's gun law nullification fantasy

2013-05-23 12:24:00

Nullification fever is spreading across the rural counties along the Mason-Dixon Line, with Cecil, Harford and Carroll counties passing resolutions in the last month declaring their view that Maryland's new gun control law is unconstitutional. Cecil's...

Wrong about racism

2013-03-03 04:00:00

One day, many years ago, I was working in my college bookstore when this guy walks in wearing a T-shirt. "White Power," it said. I was chatting with a friend, Cathy Duncan, and what happened next was as smooth as if we had rehearsed it. All at once,...

Aren't the Supremes ready for their close-up?

2013-03-29 19:00:53

Unless you waited in line for five days to get one of the coveted audience seats at the Supreme Court, you probably experienced this week's oral arguments on same-sex marriage as something of a Ken Burns film. Websites and TV broadcasters played audio of...

The false analogy between abortion and gay marriage

2013-03-26 13:19:41

If the tenor of their questions is any indication, the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared evenly divided in the challenge to California's law banning gay marriage, with Justice Anthony Kennedy, predictably, in the middle. But rather than deciding...

Scalia and racial entitlement

2013-03-06 12:45:00

The Sun has published several commentaries, including one by Leonard Pitts Jr. ("Wrong about racism," March 3), discussing Justice Antonin Scalia's recent remark during oral arguments about the Voting Rights Act being a "racial entitlement." None squarely...

What Scalia really has against the Voting Rights Act

2013-03-05 03:00:00

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is alleged to be one of the great intellects of conservative jurisprudence, but his comments during oral arguments over a challenge to the 1965 Voting Rights Act displayed all the mental acuity of a third-tier...

No time to go weenie on Maryland gun control

2013-02-27 16:32:00

Watch out, ladies and gentlemen, the Maryland Senate — where Democrats outnumber Republicans 35 to 12 — could be going weenie on gun control. Already, they're caving to the "gun enthusiasts" on the proposal to require a license to buy a...

Supreme Court questions sides in challenge of Md. DNA law

2013-02-26 17:38:41

Maryland's practice of collecting genetic information from people arrested — but not convicted — on serious charges took the national stage Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on what Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. called "perhaps the...

Obama goes big on gun control, but can he deliver?

2013-01-18 00:00:00

The first general reaction to President Barack Obama's package of gun control ideas seems to be criticism that it's too ambitious. Predictions are being heard that he will fall far short of his aspirations and even fail to restore the ban on assault...

Robert Bork, the original originalist

2012-12-24 03:00:00

Robert Bork, who died Wednesday, occupies a peculiar position in the pantheon of American conservative heroes. Most conservatives celebrated Judge Bork as the champion of constitutional values who was denied his rightful position on the Supreme Court by...

Supreme Court upholds health care law's mandate

2012-06-28 11:55:00

The U.S. Supreme Courtupheld the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law Thursday, ruling that the government may impose tax penalties on people who do not have health insurance. The court's long-awaited ruling rejected a broad legal...

Health care reform survives

2012-06-28 11:32:00

By voting to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.erased concerns that the Supreme Court had become captive to a political rather than a legal agenda. As he promised to do during his confirmation...

Commentator Bill O'Reilly, left, talks with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia during the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on April 27.

2013-04-27 20:53:00

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, left, talks with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia during the White House correspondents' dinner.

2013-04-27 00:00:00

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

2013-04-12 12:46:11