Antonin Scalia

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in a radio interview broadcast Tuesday that interrogators can inflict pain to obtain critical information, such as the location of a bomb about to explode or the plans or whereabouts of a terrorist group. "It seems to me you have to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be absurd to say you couldn't, I don't know, stick something under the fingernail, smack him in the face.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's daughter was arrested this week and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and child endangerment. Ann S. Banaszewski, 45, of Wheaton, was arrested while driving away from a fast-food restaurant in the suburb 20 miles west of Chicago, police said. Three children were in Banaszewski's van when someone called police to report a suspected intoxicated driver.

It has been two decades in the making, but this is the year Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most outspoken dissenter, could emerge as a leader of a new conservative majority. Between now and late June, the court is set to hand down decisions in four areas of law -- race, religion, abortion regulation and campaign finance -- where Scalia's views may now represent the majority.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reportedly told an overseas audience this month that the U.S. Constitution did not protect foreigners held at America's military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Scalia also told the audience at the University of Freiberg in Switzerland that he was "astounded" at the "hypocritical" reaction in Europe to the prison, said this week's issue of Newsweek. The comments came weeks before justices were to take up an appeal from a detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

Justice Antonin Scalia said Thursday he was strongly opposed to using foreign law to decide constitutional cases in the Supreme Court but also was opposed to having Congress outlaw the practice. "I don't think it's any of your business.... Let us make our mistakes, just as we let you make yours," he told a luncheon audience that included several members of Congress at a public policy forum on Capitol Hill. Scalia is a conservative and a believer in the independence of the courts.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went before 1,500 members of the American Civil Liberties Union on Sunday to explain his views on the Constitution and on the proper role of judges, winning polite applause from the liberal audience. "My job, as I see it, is to preserve the original meaning of the Constitution," Scalia said -- not to decide whether a law "is a good idea or bad idea."

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had some advice Monday night for those who want to have fun in government service: Don't become a federal judge. In a humorous account of the arcane issues and voluminous paperwork confronting the vaunted high court, Scalia said he never even wanted to become a lawyer but was swayed by the comfy lifestyle enjoyed by an uncle in the legal profession.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has been widely criticized for referring in a recent interview to "that homophobe Antonin Scalia," an injudicious exercise in name-calling that obscures Frank's larger and more valid point: that the opinions of the tart-tongued Supreme Court justice leave little doubt of his utter lack of sympathy for gays and lesbians. "Homophobia" used to mean "fear of homosexuality," but it's now used to describe any overt hostility toward gays.

There's Antonin Scalia chatting with Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes." There's Scalia speaking at length on National Public Radio. And there he is again, taking questions from high school students on C-SPAN. Picture Greta Garbo joining Facebook, and you get the idea. Until now, the Supreme Court justice has been notoriously averse to associating with the media. He has often excluded them from public appearances, even barring C-SPAN from covering an award he received in 2003 for protecting freedom of speech.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had cancer surgery this year, was kept at a hospital overnight after she became drowsy and fell from her seat aboard an airplane. Court officials blamed a reaction to medicine. Ginsburg, 76, was taken by paramedics to Washington Hospital Center around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday and released Thursday morning, court officials said. Ginsburg, along with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Antonin Scalia, was heading to London to take part in ceremonies marking the opening of Britain's new Supreme Court, whose justices were formerly known as the Law Lords.