Antonin Scalia

Law and Order Supreme Court justice could be called the most prestigious law job in America. Justices make some of the most important decisions for the United States, and once appointed they serve for life, or until they step down. Unfortunately, there is no definite time when a justice’s “life term” will come to an end, and Justice Antonin Scalia’s suddenly ended earlier this year. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly this year during a hunting trip in Texas at age 79. Scalia was an influential conservative justice in the Supreme Court, and his death leaves the court with a 4-4 split of democratic to republican justices. This is one of the reasons there is disagreement over when to appoint a new justice, before or after President…

Antonin Scalia was a Supreme Court Justice who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan. He was a well-rounded judge who stood for the Constitution, and the way the founders intended the constitution to be conceived. He was a conservative judge who stood his ground for what he believed was the correct thing to do. Leaning to the conservative side, Scalia made a decision to uphold the constitution. He believed the constitution was not to make change easier but delay or prevent change. Scalia…

Antonin Scalia Antonin Scalia was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, he was often described as the intellectual anchor of the Court’s conservative wing. Antonin Gregory Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey on March 11, 1936. He attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate and obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. After spending six years in a Cleveland law firm, he became a law school…

land, and as such, the Justices of this Court are all extremely well respected. All members of this hallowed institution have rightly earned the designation as significant legal scholars. The notion has been put forward that Justice Antonin Scalia is the most significant member of the Court in United States history. This is an exaggeration to say the least. There have been many Justices that would more accurately be called significant to the Supreme Court. Even Scalia notes in his opinions…

Scalia sat in on a number of extremely important cases during his term which allowed him to right a number of strong opinions and dissents that are well known in the legal world. Some of Scalia’s more well-known opinions and dissents pertain to the following cases: District of Columbia v. Heller, Obergefell v. Hodges, National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, Lawrence v. Texas, Kansas v. Marsh, King v. Burwell, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Scalia’s use of textualism becomes clear in…

They go on to state that the overall method that Myriad Genetics used to sequence the DNA was nothing unique to the scientific community, offering no real contribution to the rest of society (Supreme Court of the United States). It simply wasn’t Thomas 4 innovative enough to deserve its own patent. They even state that groundbreaking, new discoveries don’t necessarily even solicit an immediate patent for it doesn’t fully satisfy the rules of section 101 from the Patent Act (Supreme Court of the…

Antonin Scalia was a very respected leader in his line of work. He was known as a conservative Republican who shared his transformative theories, writing, his unique personality and opinions. Scalia was known as an originalist and a believer in the living constitution. Scalia’s brilliant views made him the leader of the conservative intellectual renaissance in his three decades on the supreme court. Antonin Gregory Scalia was appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, as the…

Despite the solid reasoning behind it, there are many who criticize the ruling in the Obergefell case. Justice Antonin Scalia, for example, delivered a scathing critique in his dissenting opinion. Scalia claimed that the Obergefell ruling, and the judicial activist ideology behind it, had resulted in a devolution in the purity of the Supreme Court. Scalia believed the decision had degraded the Supreme Court from a bastion of Constitutional rationality to a body with arguments as capricious and…

the three votes against the Colorado Supreme Court’s finding was Antonin Scalia who penned the dissent. In his dissent, Scalia does three things to convincingly disarm an extremely well-founded opinion. First, Scalia argues that the opinion’s argument that the State’s reading of Amendment 2 was “implausible” is ignorant of the entire breadth of the Amendment. Justice Scalia cites the Colorado court’s decision which says that “Colorado law currently proscribes discrimination based on age, marital…

Federalist Alexander Hamilton regarded the Constitution as the fundamental law, which is superior to any state statute, and as a limited Constitution. In Federalist Paper Number 78, Hamilton argues that the Supreme Court should have the authority to invalidate acts of Congress that are deemed unconstitutional, and that if there is a variance between the Constitution and a law passed by Congress, federal courts have the responsibility to follow the Constitution. Paper Number 78, having been cited…