Tag: Antonin Scalia

  • Nation & World

    The chosen one: Amy Coney Barrett

    In her new book Linda Greenhouse traces forces that made near certain rise of newest — and undeniably consequential — Supreme Court justice.

    13 minutes
    President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett.
  • Nation & World

    Sizing up Gorsuch on style, substance

    Law School scholars react to President Trump’s nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    No hearing for Garland, but plenty of noise

    Harvard analysts discuss the politics at work behind the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland ’74, J.D. ’77.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Clean Power Plan’s legal future ‘a mess’

    The future of the President Obama’s Clean Power Plan hangs in the balance with the Supreme Court vote to freeze the plan in place, halting implementation while legal issues are decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and, likely, by the Supreme Court itself.

    13 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Death of a judicial giant

    Harvard reacts to the death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    It’s moot, but it matters

    Third-year Harvard Law School students clashed in the high drama of the venerable Ames Moot Court Competition on Tuesday under the jurisdiction of visiting federal judges, including one of the nation’s foremost legal authorities, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Shadowing the Supreme Court

    Every January, a handful of Harvard Law School students head to Washington, D.C., to work on cases bound for the U.S. Supreme Court.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Moments that make Commencement

    After weeks of rain and cold, Harvard ended the 2010-11 year on a postcard-perfect day of azure skies and warming breezes. Most of the focus was on the speeches and rituals of Tercentenary Theatre, of course. But all across Harvard Yard, where graduating students, faculty, families, and friends gathered, there were thousands of magical moments…

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s historic mark

    As Elena Kagan becomes the 112th Supreme Court justice, she adds to an impressive list of now 23 justices who have one thing in common: Not only have they shaped the law in influential and historical ways — they all hail from Harvard.

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