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WASHINGTON, DC—As the nation says goodbye to Justice Antonin Scalia, each of his colleagues issued statements praising their departed colleague. The statements from each of the current members of the Supreme Court are reproduced here:

Last night featured a terrific national championship college football game, but tonight, it will be President Obama spiking the football. Obama’s State of the Union address tonight will be a triumphalist reading of his massive accomplishments.

Former U.S. Director of Homeland Security and current University of California President Janet Napolitano is reportedly training professors in the UC system how to avoid using alleged microaggresions, which now include such patriotic expressions as “America is the land of opportunity,” “There is only one race, the human race,” and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job.”

As a candidate for President of the United States, Barack Obama promised to restore balance to the Constitution, after what many argued was a period of executive overreach, infringing on civil liberties and the balance of powers. When he launched his campaign, he even referred to his past career as a “civil rights lawyer,” and a constitutional law teacher. Once in office, however, Obama expanded executive powers even further, and led a 6-year assault on judicial independence.

Saturday at the Costco in Arlington, VA, right outside of Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a surprise stop to see former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signing copies of her book, “Hard Choices.” Justice Sotomayor tells press

Adam Liptak’s article – “Sotomayor Finds Her Voice Among Justices” – in Wednesday’s NewYork Times is the latest paean for Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent two weeks ago froma Supreme Court decision upholding a Michigan ballot initiative’s ban on racial preferencesin

On Apr. 22 in Schuette v. BAMN, the Supreme Court of the United States held 6-to-2 that a Michigan constitutional amendment ending racial preferences in many aspects of state government does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has upheld Michigan’s ban on using race as a factor in college admissions. The justices said in a 6-2 ruling Tuesday that Michigan voters had the right to change their state constitution to prohibit

This is an update to our Jan. 3 report that Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an emergency injunction against the Obama administration, ordering that it could not enforce Obamacare’s abortion pill mandate against a Catholic nuns’ charity until the Supreme Court decided

Foreign plaintiffs cannot bring suit in America against foreign defendants for events that took place entirely on foreign soil, according to a Jan. 14 unanimous judgment by the Supreme Court.  If part of a global business empire committed illegal acts

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments regarding whether President Barack Obama’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are unconstitutional. The case will probably be a lopsided defeat for the president, with his own Supreme Court appointees expressing

Syndicated columnist  Jamie Stiehm penned a highly offensive oped for US News and World report entitled, “The Catholic Supreme Court’s War on Women”, enraging scores of readers who are currently venting their disgust in the comment section. Her screed is completely

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has offered pro-lifers a glimmer of hope as the Obama administration urges the Supreme Court not to exempt Roman Catholic nuns from the Obamacare mandate to provide birth-control and abortion-related coverage. The Little Sisters of the Poor

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a Obama appointee, issued a temporary injunction against the ObamaCare contraception mandate. The law forces employers, including those with religious affiliations, to provide health insurance, including coverage for contraception and abortion-inducing drugs. The injunction went

Miley Cyrus will reportedly not get a chance to twerk near Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor when the two ring in the new year together at Times Square in New York City this week. Sotomayor will be the first Supreme

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been chosen to lower the boom on the New Year, pressing the button that triggers the descent of the countdown ball in Times Square. Sotomayor, who hails from the Bronx, is the

Abortion is likely going back to the U.S. Supreme Court in what will be a major case. Pro-lifers won a victory Tuesday at the Supreme Court, albeit a temporary one. However, the justices also tipped their hand that they were

Author Terry McMillan routinely uses her Twitter account to share positive, uplifting messages with her fans. In between, the Waiting to Exhale author rants against conservatives. Today, McMillan went the latter route, blasting the current Supreme Court in the hours

In Fisher v. University of Texas, the Supreme Court considered UT’s admissions process, which uses applicants’ race as a factor. The Court held that the Constitution sets a high bar for government’s of race without violating the Fourteenth Amendment, and

On Monday, the Supreme Court raised the bar on what government must prove in programs that give preferences based on race, in a surprising 7-1 decision in Fisher v. University of Texas. Beginning in 1978, the Supreme Court has held

The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by a vote of 97-0, and he should already be considered someone on President Obama’s

A historic Supreme Court decision is imminent, one that could fundamentally reshape the balance of power between federal and state governments as it has existed from almost half a century. The justice are very likely going to strike down one

On Jan. 15, the Supreme Court decided a somewhat quirky case about a floating house.  Federal law vests exclusive jurisdiction in the federal courts over maritime cases. As Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the Court, maritime cases concern, “watercraft or

CBS News’ Scott Pelley speaks Bronx-Born Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Justice Sotomayor admits that Affirmative Action “today” is “different” than it was when she was a beneficiary of it. She was given a possible acceptance into Princeton despite the

Just last week Breitbart News reported on the threat to religious liberty from the HHS Mandate: starting today, Hobby Lobby is subject to penalties of $1.3 million per day for its owners refusing to violate their Christian beliefs after a

Late Sunday evening, Federal Judge Lawrence Zatkoff of Michigan ruled that Domino’s Pizza would not have to provide contraceptives or abortion services to his employees under Obamacare.  Zatkoff wrote that the founder of Domino’s, Thomas Monaghan, had “shown that abiding

“We must obey God rather than men!”–Acts 5:29. Now that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s application for an emergency injunction protecting them from Obamacare’s HHS Mandate on abortion and birth control, Hobby Lobby has decided to

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s emergency application to be exempted from the HHS Mandate on abortion services, but that should not be considered a sign that the HHS Mandate will survive its legal challenges in the

(Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has refused to block enforcement starting next week of a requirement in President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare overhaul that some companies provide insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. In an order

In an eloquent, heartfelt and powerful op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal titled “What is the American Creed,” David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale, delineates the ideas that distinguish American exceptionalism and exactly how they are abused

Compelling objecting employees to fund political speech for government unions violates the First Amendment even if you later refund that money to those employees, the Supreme Court held in Knox v. SEIU, a case that is a major blow to

Everyone is now waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to hand down its decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the name of the case frequently referred to simply as “Obamacare.” Lawyers argued four issues before the justices who will decide the

At a forum in Washington D.C. convened to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the nomination of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Justice Elena Kagan remarked that her job has not changed much between her post as solicitor general

Clive Crook has an interesting post at the Atlantic today arguingthat Obamacare is a “milder dispensation” of government power thansingle-payer. And if single-payer is Constitutional, then stopping theObamacare mandate is really no victory worth having. In other words, thegovernment can