Category: Courts

Scalia: The Justice Who Brought His “A” Game

This week’s Courier Herald column: Justice Antonin Scalia died Saturday. The immediate political reaction was as expected as it was unseemly. Expected because one of the courts most conservative members has left a vacancy during a heated election to replace our country’s most progressive President. Expected because the candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie sanders

Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died

This morning U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in Texas. He had apparently been there for a quail hunt. From his official Supreme Court biography: Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, March 11, 1936. He married Maureen McCarthy and has nine children – Ann Forrest, Eugene, John Francis,