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By Robert V. Percival | May 9, 2014
The legal blogosphere was buzzing last month with the discovery of a major gaffe in a Supreme Court decision that had just been released. What attracted all the attention was not so much the substance of the error - misrepresenting the position of the Environmental Protection Agency in a case decided in 2001 - but its source: Justice Antonin Scalia, the author of the court's decision in the 2001 case. I know from personal experience, mistakes can happen, even at the highest court of the land.
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By Charles Levendosky | June 2, 1996
"GET A LIFE, judge." That was the reaction provoked by reading Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's petulant dissent in Romer vs. Evans, which struck down Colorado's anti-gay amendment.He doesn't bother to disguise his loathing for homosexuals. He criticizes them for having "high disposable income," "possessing political power much greater than their numbers" and enjoying "enormous influence in American media and politics."Could call it envy -- except U.S. Supreme Court justices enjoy more of the same.
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By DeWayne Wickham | April 30, 1999
FIVE days before two teen-agers went on a murderous shooting rampage in a Colorado high school, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a group of students at the Park School in Baltimore County that if he had his way, people would have more -- not less -- access to deadly weapons.At a small luncheon following his speech to 300 students there, Justice Scalia said that citizens have a right to own machine guns, said Jessica Munitz, a 17-year-old Park senior.Pressing the outer limits of his thinking on this matter, Jessica -- who has earned early admission to Princeton University -- said she asked Justice Scalia if he thought people should also "be allowed to have hand-held rockets that can bring down airplanes."
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By Dennis O'Brien and Dennis O'Brien,Sun Staff Writer | April 13, 1995
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told 400 people at the University of Baltimore Law School last night that courts should not use legislative history to interpret laws, that he does not feel any sense of power in the job and that he is sorry the First Amendment required him to sanction burning of the American flag."
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By Lyle Denniston and Lyle Denniston,Washington Bureau | May 15, 1993
WASHINGTON -- When the Yankees play at Camden Yards, a famous -- and devoted -- fan of theirs sometimes can be found in a good seat there. But not easily. He will blend in perfectly, wearing an ordinary baseball cap and glasses. He won't look a thing like Antonin Scalia.It may be only at the ballpark that Justice Scalia really blends in. At the Supreme Court, where he works as the nation's premier showman-judge-theoretician, he is a loner who is losing regularly in a stubborn fight to protect the true conservative cause against the "balancers," the moderates in the middle of the road who are now in control.
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By Dennis O'Brien and Dennis O'Brien,Sun Staff Writer | April 13, 1995
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told 400 people at the University of Baltimore Law School last night that courts should not use legislative history to interpret laws, that he does not feel any sense of power in the job and that he is sorry the First Amendment required him to sanction burning of the American flag."