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[…] what happens with their lives stays a national issue. Earl Ofari Hutchinson Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is the author of In Scalia’s Shadow: The Trump Supreme Court ( Amazon Kindle).  He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton […]

[…] So please, keep the cameras shuttered for this one. Earl Ofari Hutchinson Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is the author of In  Scalia’s Shadow: The Trump Supreme Court ( Amazon Kindle).  He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on […]

[…] and the GOP. That’s the method to Carson’s zaniness. Earl Ofari Hutchinson Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is the author of In Scalia’s Shadow: The Trump Supreme Court ( Amazon Kindle).  He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton […]

[…] Blacks for Trump 2020 fits neatly into that mold. Earl Ofari Hutchinson Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is the author of In Scalia’s Shadow: The Trump Supreme Court ( Amazon Kindle).  He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton […]

[…] all with a bland poker face, and a smile. Earl Ofari Hutchinson Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is the author of In Scalia’s Shadow: The Trump Supreme Court ( Amazon Kindle).  He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton […]

[…] sounds like there is a real issue because Republicans have been urging President Obama to neglect his duty in nominating a Justice to replace the deceased Antonin Scalia. And this has sparked much debate regarding their stance. But really why would anyone have expected something different to happen? Every initiative Obama has proposed has […]

[…] SCOTUS begins in earnest when his name formally comes to the Senate for confirmation.  Democrats will go to the barricades to paint him as a dangerous Antonin Scalia mold judicial reactionary who will decisively and dangerously tip the delicate liberal-conservative court balance on SCOTUS wildly to the right for years to come. The likelihood […]

[…] EPA, the Dept. of Education, and a litany of other federal agencies, not to mention try to dump anywhere from two to four more strict constructionist Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas type judges on the SCOTUS and throughout the federal judiciary then the battle-lines will quickly harden. Senate Democrats will be the firewall to […]

[…] maybe, and I’m being generous there.” So why would Thomas ask something now? The primary speculation is that it may be due to the absence of the late Antonin Scalia. Thomas and Scalia were both conservative, but Scalia was more talkative and likely asked many of the questions Thomas would’ve wanted to ask. clarence thomas

[…] of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill that vacancy has triggered a chorus of civil rights organizations expressing their adamant opposition. As a former clerk to Justice Scalia, 1998-1999, Judge Coney Barrett has frequently lauded him as her mentor, and praised his judicial philosophy both as a law school professor and as a judge. […]

[…] a number with the potential for dramatically destabilizing insurance markets. The dissenting justices said that the law clearly says that the subsidies should be limited. Justice Antonin Scalia even suggested that the court “rewrote” the law and “we should start calling this law SCOTUScare,” which drew a smirk from Roberts. “Words no longer have […]

[…] reports Politico.​​ G​arland, as most will recall, was nominated by former President Barack Obama in March 2016 as his choice to fill the vacancy on the US Supreme Court following Antonin Scalia’s death.​ However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t care and refused to allow his nomination to be considered. Developing … Merrick Garland (Getty)

[…] the next few years. They will in almost all cases be judges cut from the same hardline right-wing ideological cloth as his oft touted favorite justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. And, if they choose, sit on the bench until they drop dead or are so infirm that they choose to call it quits. […]

[…] Jackson would make her confirmation as close as any Supreme Court justice’s in modern history, and mark a drastic shift from a generation ago, when Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsberg were getting Senate approval with little to no opposition. It is still possible that Jackson will get bipartisan approval, though one previously […]

[…] on the Constitution. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, who is highly unlikely to vote to confirm her, tried to tease out her views on the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s theory of originalism and on the more expansive theory of constitutional interpretation held by liberal justice Stephen Breyer, whom Jackson hopes to replace. But the nominee […]