Scalia's take on Voting Rights Act a slap in the face

OPINION - The justice also criticized attempts to expand the number of minority groups protected by the federal government, noting that child abusers are a minority, but that doesn’t mean they deserve protection...

John Lewis to Scalia: The right to vote is ‘what people died for'

Morgan Whitaker

POLITICS NATION - Congressman John Lewis, a hero of the civil-rights movement, said he was appalled to hear Justice Antonin Scalia refer to the Voting Rights Act as a 'racial entitlement'...

Antonin Scalia: State of the Union is a 'childish spectacle'

Mark Sherman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th consecutive year, he would not be joining them for the State of the Union...

Scalia makes incendiary remarks on LGBT rights

Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday found himself defending his legal writings that some find offensive and anti-gay...

Supreme Court casts serious doubt over future of affirmative action

Mark Sherman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas' use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action...

Scalia says abortion, 'homosexual sodomy' are easy cases

Mark Sherman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Antonin Scalia says his method of interpreting the Constitution makes some of the most hotly disputed issues that come before the Supreme Court among the easiest to resolve...