Many important areas of our jurisprudence leave us at the mercy of precisely the kind of coercive power that the Constitution was designed to protect us against.
When not leaving a mark with his jurisprudence, Scalia left a mark with his scathing, often sarcasm-riddled dissents -- protesting vociferously on every major pro-gay rights ruling and the two big challenges to the Affordable Care Act. .
People have felt that they can get away with that, because there is a sort of artificial distinction between race and politics that our jurisprudence has left us with, where if you do it on the basis of race, you're out of bounds; if you do it on the basis of politics, you're in bounds.
"In its vain attempt to make the incredible plausible," he went on, "today's opinion distorts our Confrontation Clause jurisprudence and leaves it in a shambles".
On the question of Islamic law's place in Egyptian jurisprudence, the assembly left unchanged a longstanding article at the beginning of the text grounding Egyptian law in the "principles of Islamic law".
With no actual games to offset the jurisprudence news, college basketball is left to contemplate what N.C.A.A. investigators sniffing around the high school of Kentucky recruit Nerlens Noel means.
"In his three decades on the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia left a lasting impression on American jurisprudence," she said in a statement.
"A son of Chicago, he has made all of us in Illinois proud and left an indelible and important mark on American jurisprudence," the release reads.
They refer fondly to golden ages in which giants like Marshall, Holmes and Cardozo spoke in strong voices that left you feeling you had been exposed to works of literary art as well as superior jurisprudence.
And because she's attuned to the "springs of conscience" that well up from faith — Nussbaum left the Episcopal Church for Reform Judaism when she married — she can analyze some of the Supreme Court's recent jurisprudence on religion with sympathy rather than disdain for the enterprise of accommodation.
