Antonin Scalia

Should the Death Penalty Still be Legal? Origins of the death penalty span all the way back to the time of Hammurabi about three and a half millennia ago. “In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon codified the death penalty for twenty five different crimes” (Reggio, PBS.org). Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, the reasons that justified these so called “inhumane” punishments, was the reason that surpassed all others, logic. The death penalty was archaically considered the…

It 's lunchtime but your supervisor has elected you to go for a random drug test. "Why me and why not him,” this is a common question that is often asked by employees. Most people believe that their body belongs to them and what they do in their free time is their business, however others believe that drug testing staff is within an employer’s legal right. President Bill Clinton in 1998 famously said it depends what the meaning of “is” is. This points out the importance of definition. First…

appointing a new Supreme Court justice was a hot topic of the 2016 presidential election. After Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing, the Supreme Court was split between four conservative justices and four liberal justices. President Obama nominated a candidate to fill his seat, but the Republican Senate did not confirm his nomination because they did not want another liberal judge to replace Scalia, and decided to wait until the newly elected President to make the nomination. Filling the vacant…

Jim Obergefell was born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio. He was the youngest out of five other siblings and was raised based upon the catholic religion. Around the middle age of twenty Jim Obergefell finally came out to his family as gay. In 1992 Jim met his reason to fight for gay rights, John Arthur. After these two had frequently met up they began to fall for each other more, and as time went by the both of them lived together, worked together, and began to live a normal happy life together…

The Affordable Care Act ( ACA) was initially created so that low-income families could receive health care benefits. This led to a court case between the National Federation of Independent Business and Kathleen Sebelius, where the Affordable Care Act was questioned its constitutionality. The National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius allowed people to be aware of the current healthcare issues and how the court case impacted the healthcare system. Primarily, the introduction of the…

was pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. On June 24, 2013, the Fifth Circuit's decision was vacated, and the case remanded for further consideration in a 7–1 decision, with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissenting. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas filed concurring…

Affirmative Action policies have stirred debate about fairness of favoring certain groups over others. The most controversial part of these programs is their use of minimal levels of required minority participation. “Affirmative action policies are those in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups in American society”ncsl. Affirmative Action has left many people out in the cold, it allows people to be chosen by…

that there is no correlation between the two than that there is. For example, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011), the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that California could not ban the sale of violent video games to minors. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the majority opinion that studies purporting to show a connection between violent video games and harmful effects on children "have been rejected by every court to consider them, and with good reason: They do not prove that violent…

2012 ruling cited language related to schools in the landmark 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which held that the Second Amendment provides an individual right to bear arms. The majority opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia said that states could still restrict guns in "sensitive places" such as schools (Shaw, 2013). Schools are exactly that: sensitive places. It is unreasonable to expect that teachers should be armed and ready for a fight at all times. Their…

The Freedom of Religion Religious Freedom The First Amendment Right within the Constitution guarantees every American citizen the freedom of religion. This includes Christianity, Catholicism, Judaism, and if you should so please, Atheism; along with other religious denominations. Unfortunately, the religious liberty is under attack. Not only in our schools, but at work, during social functions, between churches,and in public(Cato institute, 2011). This is an outbreak of opinions and…