Linda Greenhouse Reflects on 30 Years Covering the Supreme Court - For 2,691 Decisions,
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Greenhouse is moving on to Yale. Her insight will be missed.Read the full story
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Greenhouse is moving on to Yale. Her insight will be missed.Read the full story
NYT Lock and Load - Supreme Court Ruling on Gun Rights
Friday, June 27th, 2008That last part is the final indignity of the decision: when the justices go to work at the Supreme Court, guns will still be banned. When most Americans show up at their own jobs, they will not have that protection. This audaciously harmful decision, which hands the far right ...
Court slashes judgment in Exxon Valdez disaster from $2.5B to $.5B
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens supported the $2.5 billion figure for punitive damages, saying Congress has chosen not to impose restrictions in such circumstances. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also dissented, saying the court was engaging in "lawmaking" by concluding that punitive damages may not exceed what the company ...
U.S. mulls Guantanamo closure as Bush term nears end
Friday, May 2nd, 2008The Bush administration could announce plans by the end of its term in January to close Guantanamo prison and an upcoming Supreme Court ruling might be the impetus for this, senior U.S. officials and experts say. The government is under international and domestic pressure to close the prison.Read the ...
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 ...
Supreme Court Inc.: Heading toward fascism?
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Today, however, there are no economic populists on the court, even on the liberal wing. And ever since John Roberts was appointed chief justice in 2005, the court has seemed only more receptive to business concerns. Forty percent of the cases the court heard last term involved business interests, up ...
U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review $2.5 billion in punitive damages in Exxon Valdez case
Monday, October 29th, 2007Roberts' court off the rails? The company has been battling the judgment for more than a decade. The company has managed to get the award cut in half from the original $5 billion awarded in 1994 by an Anchorage jury in the class-action suit.Read the full story