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Supreme Court restricts unwarranted police use of drug-sniffing dogs
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police cannot intrude onto private property and use drug-sniffing dogs to obtain probable cause for a more thorough search, in an untypical ruling that saw Justice Antonin Scalia side with the court’s liberal wing to swing the 5-4 decision. The case, Florida v.…
Rep. Barney Frank comments on Scalia, prostitution, marijuana and more
Rep. Barkey Frank (D-MA) gave a very candid interview on the Michelangelo Signorile radio show as he prepares to retire from Congress after 16 terms, reported the Huffington Post. The openly gay congressman reflected on marijuana legalization, Justice Antonin Scalia, same-sex marriage, and prostitution. On recent ballot initiatives that legalized…
Justice Scalia: It really enrages me to hear criticism of ‘politicized court’
Justice Antonin Scalia insisted Monday that the Supreme Court had not succumb to partisan politics. “Look, some people in recent months have criticized the court as being a politicized court because all the Republican appointees vote one way and all the Democrat appointees vote the other way — and that…
Chris Hayes: Now we know where Supreme Court justices get their news
On Saturday morning’s edition of MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes,” host Chris Hayes used his weekly “Now We Know” segment to note the fact that many of the conservative Supreme Court justices appear to be getting their news from right wing blogs. Referencing remarks by Justice Antonin Scalia regarding the…
Drugmakers shielded from lawsuits: US Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – Vaccine makers are protected from lawsuits, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, dashing the hopes of a US couple who had sought monetary damages after their daughter fell ill after a round of routine childhood inoculations. By a 6-2 vote, the US high court, in an opinion by written…
Top Reagan DOJ official slams Scalia for ‘secretly’ meeting tea party members
WASHINGTON – A top Justice Department official under President Ronald Reagan tore into Justice Antonin Scalia for holding a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill with tea partyers. “Justice Antonin Scalia galloped beyond the farthest boundaries of judicial propriety in secretly meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss the Constitution with Tea…
Court hears arguments on violent video games
Supreme Court hears arguments on whether violent video games should be government-regulated The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed sympathy for a California law that aims to keep children from buying ultra-violent video games in which players maim, kill or sexually assault images of people. But several justices said the law…
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