Tag Archives: Justice Scalia

A Horrible Decision

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Marty Ryan

On Monday, the Court said it was constitutionally okay to take a sample of “skin cells”. They might just as well take an arm or a leg, your heart, your brain, or your medical records. Continue reading →

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Same Results; Different Reasoning

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Marty Ryan

Last November, I wrote a blog about how the Fourth Amendment is losing its meaning.   One of the examples I had used was the case of United States v. Jones.  The facts of the case are as follows:   Antoine Jones … Continue reading →

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Parental Rights and Wrongs

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Marty Ryan

it’s so strange that even the strange Justice Antonin Scalia concurred in the opinion of the majority by saying: “I join the Court’s opinion, which reasonably applies our precedents, strange though they may be.” Continue reading →

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