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Saturday, February 13, 2016

“Justice Scalia’s Outsized Legacy: A passionate, complex conservative, Scalia forever changed how Americans think about original intent; Both liberals and conservatives now play by Scalia’s rules.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 10:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Scalia Came Close to Greatness”: Online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, “Antonin Scalia will go down as one of the greatest justices in U.S. Supreme Court history — and one of the worst.”

Posted at 10:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Antonin Scalia Brought the Court to Him: His transformational tenure made originalism the rule by which every justice had to live.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 10:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dead at 79; Reagan appointee was conservative fixture during three decades on the high court”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Nominations to Supreme Court in Election Year with Divided and Unified Governments”: Josh Blackman has this post at his blog.

Posted at 8:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Scalia’s Death and Implications for the 2016 Election, the Supreme Court and the Nation”: Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

Posted at 8:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Simply Breathtaking Consequences Of Justice Scalia’s Death”: Ian Millhiser has this post at ThinkProgress.

Posted at 8:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Susan Page and Richard Wolf of USA Today report that “Justice Scalia found dead at Texas ranch.”

The Associated Press reports that “US Marshall’s Service confirms that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is dead at 79.”

And Chris Geidner and David Mack of BuzzFeed News report that “Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died; The conservative figure was the current court’s longest serving justice.”

Posted at 5:30 PM by Howard Bashman



BREAKING NEWS — “Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch”: Gary Martin of The San Antonio Express-News has this report.

Julie Fancher of The Dallas Morning News has a blog post titled “Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reported dead.”

Martin Pengelly and Ben Jacobs of The Guardian (UK) report that “Supreme court justice Antonin Scalia dies at 79; Texas governor confirms supreme court justice found dead at ranch; Local reports say Scalia died at ranch after day’s hunting.”

Posted at 5:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Pee-wee’s Big Comeback: After disappearing for nearly three decades, Paul Reubens’s subversive alter ego returns — and seems more radical than ever.” Jonah Weiner has this article in tomorrow’s edition of The New York Times Magazine.

This blog’s earlier related coverage can be accessed here and here.

Posted at 3:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Sotomayor Says ‘There Is a Place, I Think, for Jury Nullification’; The former 2nd Circuit judge suggests that court was wrong to categorically reject a jury’s right to acquit a guilty defendant”: Jacob Sullum has this post at Reason.com’s “Hit & Run” blog.

Posted at 2:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge’s legacy will live on in Oklahoma City’s federal courthouse”: Kyle Schwab of The Oklahoman has an article that begins, “Gentry Holloway said she feels blessed knowing that her father’s legacy as an appellate judge will live on by having the Oklahoma City federal courthouse named after him.”

Posted at 2:53 PM by Howard Bashman