Proving once again how astute Nader was to argue that control of the executive branch is irrelevant, a dismal looking day at the Supreme Court with the moderate Sam Alito writinga 5-4 opinion gutting standing in environmental Establishment Clause cases and Roberts writing an opinion...
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The Times on the Bowles decision:If the Supreme Court, with its new conservative majority, wanted to announce that it was getting out of the fairness business, it could hardly have.
In a 5-4 division of justices I'm already sick of, on Thursday the Supreme Court overruled two precedents to throw out an appeal to a murder conviction as being outside.
Speaking of Judge Southwick and peremptory challenges, this is interesting. Apparently he (along with a majority of his colleagues in Mississippi) is sometimes sympathetic to claims of racial discrimination. If they're made by a white person:Judge Southwick has participated in numerous cases involving challenges to...
I reiterate my opposition here.
Welcome to Crazy Nino's House of Federalism! We guarantee that any characterization of facts by a state court, even if it's so tendentious or transparently false that even a conservative.
Simon Lazarus and Rochelle Bobroff have more on Alito in the wake of his casting the decisive vote in the awful Ledbetter decision:In the meantime, they can expect more opinions in this vein from the Roberts Court. Justice Alito's solicitude for employers is not new....
The small band of people arguing that Sam Alito would be anything but a catastrophe for liberal constitutional values had very few arguments available to them, given the overwhelming evidence.
As Ruth Bader Ginsburg notes, the evidence of gender discrimination in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear, decided today by the Supreme Court, is unambiguous:Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at.
Thers quotes the first half of the Scalia quote approvingly cited by Ann Althouse. I'd like to deal with the second:"What Shakespeare is to the high school English student," Scalia said, "the society's accepted constitutional traditions are to the prudent jurist."He does not judge them,...
The feminist Canadian jurist Bertha Wilson passed away last week. Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada (by Pierre Trudeau in 1982, the same year.
Last week, Bean pointed us to this op-ed by Cass Sunstein, who argued that Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent in Carhart II--which rooted a woman's right to obtain an abortion on.