John Scalia won't actually join the Greenberg, Traurig firm until sometime next year, according to partner Joe Reeder, who said the job was offered weeks before the election and has no connection to the Florida case.

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The four generally conservative justices, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, are expected to argue either that Massachusetts doesn't have standing or that the EPA can decide for itself whether to regulate carbon dioxide.

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Justices John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy disagreed.

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Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion for the case, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito--all of whom generally vote conservatively and in favor of business interests.

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Here's the dilemma for an Antonin Scalia or Chief Justice John Roberts, who typically vote with the conservative bloc: While they don't like expanding federal power, they like second-guessing the democratic process even less.

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But a future challenge in the Supreme Court could face a different outcome, as the three justices who dissented strongly from the majority Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and John Roberts, the new chief justice will probably be joined soon by a like-minded fellow-Catholic, Samuel Alito.

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John Paul Stevens just turned eighty-nine, and four Justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Scalia, Kennedy, and Stephen Breyer) are in their seventies.

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