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Radical Left Makes Inroads at Scalia Law School Under Banner of Black Lives Matter

Posted by Jacob Meckler on June 26, 2020 33 Comments

It will come as no surprise to most Americans that academia has been lost largely to the Left. To put this in perspective, college professors donate to Democratic candidates over Republican ones by a ratio of 95-1, Yet, there are notable holdouts in the academic world, among them the aptly named Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, just outside Washington, D.C.

Republicans gearing up to fill possible Supreme Court vacancy this election year

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2020 33 Comments

Can you feel the tension? Every time Ruth Bader Ginsburg goes to the hospital or has a medical diagnosis or procedure, you can feel it. What if this is the time?

Liberal nightmare: Takeover of federal judiciary by “larval Scalias is devastatingly close to completion”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2019 47 Comments

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell's long march towards remaking the federal judiciary is moving along. Just this week, the Third Circuit "flipped" to majority Republican-appointees, the Second Circuit is on the brink of flipping, and several other evenly split Circuits are likely to go Republican.

Harvard Law Establishes Professorship to Honor Antonin Scalia

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 03, 2017 0 Comments

“Justice Scalia had a singular impact on statutory analysis and legal thought."...

Scalia called Obamacare ‘SCOTUScare’ and warned it might endure — and he was right

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2017 37 Comments

With the House having passed a healthcare bill, and the Senate close to passing a version, there is a lot of debate over the specifics of the bills. Shameless Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders portray Republicans as setting out to kill tens of thousands of Americans. In the wake of the shooting of Republican Congressmen by a Sanders-supporter spouting similar talking points, the false death claims are nothing short of incitement to violence.

Mandatory union dues survive as SCOTUS deadlocks without Scalia

Posted by Sarah Rumpf on March 29, 2016 11 Comments

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States, stuck in a 4-4 deadlock, affirmed the lower court's decision in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a labor union dues case. The one sentence decision offered no explanation and simply stated, "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court."

Should public employee unions be able to impose mandatory dues?

At issue in the case was a challenge to the power of public employee unions to impose mandatory dues, an issue that has been bitterly fought by both sides of the labor union debate. Tuesday's ruling allows the unions to continue to collect dues for collective bargaining costs, pursuant to a prior case from 1977 that allowed these mandatory dues, so long as the employees were not forced to pay for political or ideological activities.

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