Antonin Scalia Archives

Politics

Wrongful Convictions

How many innocent Americans are behind bars?

Radley Balko | 6.7.2011 12:00 PM

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Shrink the Prisons

Conservatives are as wrong about prison overcrowding as liberals were about welfare reform.

Shikha Dalmia | 6.7.2011 7:00 AM

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Supreme Court Upholds Order to Slash California's Prison Population

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2011 5:50 PM

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ObamaCare, the Necessary and Proper Clause, and U.S. v. Comstock

Damon Root | 4.20.2011 4:57 PM

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Scalia and the Innocent

Radley Balko | 4.4.2011 9:36 AM

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Not So Surprising News from the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 3.25.2011 5:43 PM

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Will Scalia's Angry Dissents Win the Future?

Damon Root | 3.10.2011 3:10 PM

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Why Is Scalia So Eager to Let a Murderer Off on a Technicality?

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2011 1:44 PM

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"The Pro-Business Roberts Court Is Striking Out"

Damon Root | 3.1.2011 7:06 PM

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Justice Clarence Thomas, Silent All These Years

Damon Root | 2.14.2011 4:03 PM

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Antonin Scalia's Complicated History with the Commerce Clause

Damon Root | 2.9.2011 9:50 AM

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Are There Five Supreme Court Votes Against ObamaCare?

Damon Root | 2.1.2011 11:38 AM

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Progressives vs. "Progressive Originalism"

Damon Root | 1.26.2011 6:21 PM

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Common Cause: Citizens United Should Be Overturned Because Scalia and Thomas Attended a Koch Seminar

Jacob Sullum | 1.21.2011 1:21 PM

Policy

Supreme Court To Decide If Smell of Pot, Suspicious Sounds Merit Warrantless Entry

Radley Balko | 1.13.2011 3:15 PM

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Commerce Clause Stirrings at the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 1.10.2011 5:05 PM

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L.A. Times Sides with Antonin Scalia

Damon Root | 1.6.2011 2:21 PM

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"Why would anyone think that Sotomayor doing her best Scalia impression would bring Kennedy to the left?"

Damon Root | 12.29.2010 8:05 AM

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Gay Marriage and the Law

The battle over Proposition 8 inches closer to the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 12.2.2010 4:30 PM

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Supreme Court Reviews Order to Free California Prisoners

Jacob Sullum | 11.30.2010 6:16 PM

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Breyer: Old Farts Like Me Have No Business Deciding Cases Involving New Technology

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2010 5:14 PM

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Stop Smearing Federalism

From consumer advocacy to gay marriage, liberals routinely embrace federalism. So why do they keep comparing it to slavery?

Damon Root | 11.10.2010 4:30 PM

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'What James Madison Thought About Video Games'

Jacob Sullum | 11.2.2010 3:58 PM

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The Deferential Constitutionalist

Liberals want a "Scalia of the left" on the Supreme Court. Is Justice Breyer their man?

Damon Root | 10.14.2010 4:30 PM

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You've Come A Long Way, Baby

The Second Amendment finally applies to the states. Now the fight over gun rights really begins.

Brian Doherty | 9.13.2010 1:00 PM

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When Criminal Defendants Face Conservative Judges

Damon Root | 9.10.2010 3:29 PM

Antonin Scalia

Fair Fraud

'Honest services' law

Jacob Sullum | 8.23.2010 6:32 AM

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Now We Know What Honest Services Fraud Is (Sort Of)

Jacob Sullum | 6.25.2010 12:15 PM

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Conservatives v. Libertarians

The debate over judicial activism divides former allies.

Damon Root | 6.8.2010 7:00 AM

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Supreme Court Grants Cert to Hank Skinner

Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 11:56 AM

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Scalia, Breyer, and Kagan: Just Friends

Damon Root | 5.21.2010 4:48 PM

Politics

How Should Justices Judge?

Striking a balance between liberal and conservative legal theories

Steve Chapman | 5.20.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

How Many More Are Innocent?

America's 250th DNA exoneration raises questions about how often we send the wrong person to prison.

Radley Balko | 4.29.2010 4:30 PM

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It It Too Early to Fight About Justice Scalia's Replacement?

Damon Root | 4.13.2010 4:33 PM

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Will Justice Scalia Abandon Originalism in the Chicago Gun Case?

Damon Root | 3.9.2010 11:01 AM

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Guns for All, Privileges or Immunities for None

The hearings in McDonald v. Chicago promise an unrevolutionary victory-but still an important one

Brian Doherty | 3.4.2010 3:00 PM

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Justice Scalia's Faint-Hearted 14th Amendment Originalism

Damon Root | 3.3.2010 10:28 AM

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Mohamed Atta and His Harmonica Quartet

Jacob Sullum | 2.24.2010 3:58 PM

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Clarence Thomas: The Pen Is Mightier Than the Microphone

Damon Root | 2.22.2010 4:05 PM

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Does Justice Scalia Think the Second Amendment Applies Only to the Federal Government?

Damon Root | 2.19.2010 4:57 PM

Policy

How Many More Are Innocent?

America's 250th DNA exoneration raises questions about how often we send the wrong person to prison.

Radley Balko | 2.8.2010 3:00 PM

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Will Obama's Next Supreme Court Pick Be a "Scalia of the Left"?

Damon Root | 2.8.2010 11:29 AM

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Ninth Configurations

Rights "retained by the people" make a comeback

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.26.2010 12:00 PM

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Gilligan's Wake Author Argues Ninth Amendment Law Before Scalia

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.13.2009 3:30 PM

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Honest Services Fraud: We Know It When We See It

Jacob Sullum | 10.15.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

'Can Congress Ban the Human Sacrifice Channel?'

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2009 1:03 PM

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Dershowitz Corners Scalia on Death Penalty, Catholic Faith

Radley Balko | 8.20.2009 1:51 PM

Antonin Scalia

The All-Argentina Issue is Here