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Touré rips Scalia’s remarks on Voting Rights Act: ‘Completely racist’
Friday night on MSNBC’s “Martin Bashir” show, host Martin Bashir welcomed Touré, co-host of “The Cycle,” who discussed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s remarks characterizing 1965′s Voting Rights Act as “racial entitlement.” Touré called the sitting justice’s statements “completely racist” and wondered that in the face of so much evidence…
Civil rights icon ‘pained’ to hear Supreme Court justice on ‘the verge of some racist feeling’
Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights icon, blasted Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday night. He told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow he was “shocked” that Scalia said Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act was renewed by Congress due to “a phenomenon that is called…
Scalia berates school children visiting court: Constitution is ‘dead, dead, dead!’
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday said the U.S. Constitution was “dead, dead, dead” and lashed out at school child who he said had visited the high court with the wrong view of the document. During a lecture at Southern Methodist University to promote their second book together, SMU…
George Takei slams Scalia for ‘repugnant’ anti-gay comment
During an appearance on MSNBC, actor and LGBT activist George Takei called for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse himself from upcoming cases involving the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8. Scalia recently told an audience at Princeton University that someone could be morally opposed to…
Princeton freshman: Scalia’s ‘reduction to the absurd’ defense was absurd
The Princeton freshman who confronted Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on his legal opinions regarding same sex marriage told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner on Monday that, while Scalia was cordial in his answer, he still ducked the question. “I don’t feel his response was accurate,” said Duncan Hosie, who asked Scalia…
Same sex couple: Conservative justices ‘have an opportunity to redeem the Republican Party’
The first same sex male couple to appear in African-American lifestyle magazine Jet’s wedding announcements had harsh words for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent defense of “moral feelings” against homosexuality during an appearance on MSNBC Tuesday, but said the court’s conservative justices had a chance to do right by…
Scalia: ‘Handheld rocket launchers’ could be constitutional
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday said that even “handheld rocket launchers” could be considered legal under his interpretation of the Constitution’s Second Amendment. In the wake of a massacre in Colorado that left 12 dead and 58 wounded, host Chris Wallace asked Scalia if the Constitution would support…
Scalia on ruling in Bush v. Gore: ‘Get over it’
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Wednesday that the 5-4 decision that delivered the Presidency of the United States to George W. Bush in 2000 was the most controversial ruling of his career at the nation’s top court. “I guess the one that created the most waves of disagreement was…
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