Antonín Dvořák

William Rehnquist was born on Oct 1, 1924 in Milwaukee, WI to his parents William and Margery Rehnquist. From an early age he embraced his family’s respect towards Republican Party leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Robert Taft (Biography, 2005). After graduating high school, Rehnquist attended Kenyon College for one year before entering the Army Air Corps during World War II from 1943 to 1946. Upon completion of his military service, he attended the University of Stanford where he earned a…

Entertainment Merchants Association, Chief Justice Antonin Scalia stated that "Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas and even social messages through many familiar literary devices, such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music” (Brown v. Electronic…

Constitution. Paper Number 78, having been cited in thirty-seven Supreme Court opinions as of April 2007, has had an immense influence on the debate regarding the interpretation and application of the Constitution (Coenen). Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is an advocate of textualism, arguing that the meaning of the Constitution lies in the words of the document, and that the Constitution should be regarded in favor of its “original meaning”. Justice Stephen…

2 Cheng Xinnan Cheng POLT 202 - 02 Prof. Kahn Dec. 6, 2016 Prompt 6 (slippery slope) Slippery Slope: Legitimate Reasoning of the Supreme Court The slippery slope is a metaphoric way to describe undesirable possible future as a consequence of today 's event. When the Supreme Court is dealing with a new implied fundamental right, the slippery slope argument was employed to state possible disastrous consequences due to the Court 's specific decision, more specifically, whether or not to…

The Supreme Court is the highest court of the judicial system and can shape the direction of the American judicial system and the morals of society. All other courts reside under the Supreme Court and adhere to the standards set in cases decided by the Supreme Court. The importance of the Supreme Court explains why the nomination of a new justice to the court can be a heated and contentious situation between the two parties that reside in the American political system. President Trump nominated…

Appeals and the Oregon Supreme Court agreed that this treaty does not generate individual rights, but only rights of countries, meaning that the state did not have to honor the federal treaty. In a 5-4 decision by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Samuel Alito with Mr. Breyer, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Souter, and Mrs. Ginsburg disagreeing, the members of the Supreme Court ruled that states are allowed to deny Article 36…

In Cather’s short story, “Paul’s Case,” Cather depicts a dispiriting story a high school boy named Paul with a severe case of depression. Paul is irrationally and foolishly obsessed with theater and the performing arts and often flees from the bitter reality of school and work into his own imagination, using the arts as means of achieving this. “Paul half closed his eyes, and gave himself up to the peculiar stimulus such personages always had for him” (75). However, instead of entering the art…

Wade was wrong, and should be upended by the judicial system. One judge, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that said that the crucial right to privacy, which the 1973 case ruled against, was “utterly idiotic”. (Insert citation) However, the Roe vs. Wade court ruling made way for the legalization of a procedure that had high death rates prior…

try to interpret the meaning the best way they can to ensure a fair trial. The case of the District of Columbia v. Heller in 1976 is the case in question. When the case was presented to the Supreme Court, the opinion of the court came from Justice Antonin Scalia. In the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the case was about examining as to whether if the Second Amendment was violated for Dick Anthony Heller. The District of Columbia decided to create a gun control law, which placed a ban on…

I believe that these two justices’ jurisprudence, or philosophy of law, is shaped by their political ideologies. This is not to say, however, that I believe that the two justices’ political ideologies affect their ability to come to objective decisions since ultimately, their most important task is to remain impartial. The two SCOTUS justices are on the opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. In addition to their opposite ideologies, the pair has two completely different philosophies of law…