Archive for the ‘supreme+court’ Category
Friday, June 27th, 2008
That 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 ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Will the Court's conservatives undermine the Voting Rights Act?Read the full story
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage, the justices ruled 4-3 in striking down the ban. "In view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship," Chief Justice Ronald M. George wrote of marriage for the majority, "the California Constitution ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Today, 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 ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
A Florida death row inmate has been granted a stay of execution by the US Supreme Court in an action that offers further evidence that a de facto national moratorium on executions is in place. The stay, announced Thursday afternoon, came four hours before Mark Dean Schwab was scheduled to ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Roberts' 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
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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
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
An excellent oped piece in the NYT: "If the current five-man majority persists in thumbing its nose at popular values, the election of a Democratic president and Congress could provide a corrective. It requires only a majority vote in both houses to add a justice or two."Read the full story
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court's judgment. The court's four liberal justices dissented. "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Roberts said.Read the full story
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