Antonin Scalia Died of a Heart Attack, According to Death Certificate
The late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died this week of a heart attack, according to his death certificate.
Antonin Scalia Won
Justice Antonin Scalia is dead. His proteges will continue to wreak havoc throughout the country for decades. The longest-service justice at the time of his death, Scalia had more than 100 clerks work under him during his tenure. Those clerks (a couple token liberals among them, admittedly) went on to the highest…
Antonin Scalia Lost
Antonin Scalia died a failure. He failed at the thing he liked to claim he was doing, and he failed at the thing he genuinely was trying to do. Both failures are captured by the furious and immediate response to his death, as Republican members of the Senate hastily announced that they will preemptively withhold their…
Who Will Replace Antonin Scalia?
Uniquely accomplished Twitter egg and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died. And now, our hearts and Twitter feeds are weighed down by one, big question: Who is Obama going to try to sneak past a stonewalling Senate?
GOP Senate Majority Leader Says Whoever Obama Chooses to Replace Scalia Is Unfit to Serve
The official Republican response to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s untimely death appears to be an agreement that they will unilaterally railroad any Obama nominees on the logic it would be unfair for the sitting president to choose a replacement.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Found Dead at 79
U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia was reportedly found dead “of natural causes” at a luxury resort in Texas on Saturday, according to The San Antonio Express-News.
Supreme Court Rules Against "Wichita Massacre" Brothers in Death Penalty Case
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 against three convicted murderers, including two brothers, whose death sentences had been vacated by the Kansas Supreme Court. The decision—which ultimately revolved around sentencing procedures, the New York Times reports, and will likely not have very much impact on the…
Physicists Reject Notion That Racial and Gender Diversity Have No Value in Science
A group of nearly 2,000 professional physicists and astrophysicists have signed a letter, drafted by members of the Equity & Inclusion in Physics & Astronomy Facebook group and addressed to the Supreme Court justices, repudiating the lines of questioning put forward by Justices Antonin Scalia and John Roberts which…
Antonin Scalia: Affirmative Action Puts Black People In Schools That Are Too Hard for Them
Uniquely accomplished Twitter egg Antonin Scalia had some opinions about black people this morning. Or rather, he gave voice to some opinions that some people might have. Specifically, the opinion that affirmative action is bad because African-American students just can’t keep up in good schools.
Dumbass Tennessee Judge: If Gays Can Get Married, No One's Getting Divorced
A local judge in Tennessee has denied a divorce to a man and woman on the grounds that the Supreme Court’s recent decision on same-sex marriage means only the Supreme Court can decide “what is not a marriage, or better stated, when a marriage is no longer a marriage.”
Colbert Teases Dissenting SCOTUS Justices For Being Wrong and Bad
“History moves fast,” Stephen Colbert says in this short monologue critiquing the dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision. “It’s hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full, Constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did.”
Scalia Is a Twitter Egg
There is a now-familiar ritual performed by liberal commentators and journalists following Supreme Court decisions that go their way: The praising of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s blistering dissents.
Quiz: Antonin Scalia or Minions Meme?
Antonin Scalia is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Minions are cartoon characters from a series of popular family films. Dissents authored by Antonin Scalia are laced with quips, one-liners, and barbs designed to be stripped from their greater context and shared, by his ideological fellows and foes alike. …
Supreme Court: Obamacare Subsidies Still Legal in All States
In a 6-3 decision announced Thursday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in King v. Burwell that federal healthcare subsidies under the Affordable Care Act—a.k.a. Obamacare—are legal in all states, not just those with their own state-run insurance exchanges.
How to Kill the Hobby Lobby Decision in One Not-That-Easy Step
Over at The Nation, Katha Pollitt proposes a solution to the ongoing rain of fire, brimstone, rubber and glass that followed the Supreme Court's June decision in Hobby Lobby. Repeal the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, she says, and be done with it. Ayup.
Scalia, in Brooklyn, Says He Can't Judge Hate or the NSA
Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving active justice of the Supreme Court, has a great deal of charm at his disposal, in person. From a distance, it’s easy to imagine Scalia as a sort of aloof, smoldering demon, throwing cruel barbs at popular notions about justice and progress. Yet he is dear friends with Ruth Bader…
Antonin Scalia Believes the Devil and Talk Radio Are Both Real
The biggest question raised by Jennifer Senior's upsettingly entertaining interview with Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia in this week's New York magazine is the metaquestion: Why is Scalia running his mouth? What leads a sitting justice to keep building a public dossier of his crotchets and prejudices, rather…
Antonin Scalia: I Suspect I Have Homosexual Friends
In an interview with New York magazine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia sat down with Jennifer Senior and shared his feelings about words, women, homosexuals, the Devil, Jesus, and Claire Danes.
Antonin Scalia Does Not Believe in Molecular Biology
Justice Antonin Scalia agrees with his fellow Supreme Court justices that naturally occurring genes can't be patented. Where he appears to differ: The existence of genes, the basic science of genetics, molecular biology, and evolution. He just dissented from all of the above.
Scalia in a Really Weird Hat, and Senator Claire McCaskill Is Creep-Shotting It
"Four years ago today I began tweeting," Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill wrote this morning. "One of my first tweets was a comment on Scalia's weird hat." Indeed, it was:
