Archive for the ‘roberts’ Category

Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection Use

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

"We ... agree that petitioners have not carried their burden of showing that the risk of pain from maladministration of a concededly humane lethal injection protocol, and the failure to adopt untried and untested alternatives, constitute cruel and unusual punishment," Chief Justice John Roberts said in an opinion that garnered ...

Schumer to fight new Bush high court picks

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Senators were too quick to accept the nominees’ word that they would respect legal precedents, and “too easily impressed with the charm of Roberts and the erudition of Alito,” Schumer said. “There is no doubt that we were hoodwinked,” said Schumer. Well duh.Read the full story

Old-line Republican warns ’something’s in the works’ to trigger a police state

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. "Something's in the works," he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place.Read the full story