The Supreme Court just rejected 7-2 a constitutional challenge to the 3-injection lethal injection protocol. Details to come. The case is Baze v. Rees. Good to know that Supreme Court believes that dogs deserve better treatment than the human condemned.Update: SCOTUSBlog has more. The Court...
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The recently retired Justice O'Connor recently spoke at Hunter College with Justice Breyer, and was asked by a student if there was a vote she regretted casting. After rejecting the.
I have to say, I have mixed emotions about the New York Times's decision to replace Linda Greenhouse with Adam Liptak. I'm afraid it is going to defang him and.
The Supreme Court's decision today in New Jersey v. Delaware was decided in favor of the latter. The two dissenters? Trenton's Antonin Scalia and Trenton's Sam Alito. (Well, Stevens dissented in part, but to argue that the rule announced by the Court was insufficiently protective...
The first question about the D.C. gun case is, how will they rule? Reporters who observed the oral argument today seem nearly certain that 1)a majority of the Court will.
Jeffrey Rosen's article about the pro-business court -- the Chamber of Commerce's "litigation center filed briefs in 15 cases and its side won in 13 of them" -- is very.
Jeffrey Rosen brings up an interesting point about the judicial options for the next Democratic president. The recent Republican dominance of the White House leaves the Democrats with a very small group within the most desirable target candidates (relatively young, female or Hispanic, significant appellate...
I cringe whenever I see that the Roberts Court is taking a case like this:In theory, a criminal-law doctrine known as the exclusionary rule forbids prosecutors from using evidence obtained.
I have more thoughts here.
In the wake of yesterday's oral argument in the Indiana voting rights case, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, in which the Bush v. Gore majority played ping pong with Paul Smith, the lawyer for the Indiana state Democrats challenging the law, facial challenges to...
It's been buried by NH primary news, but it's worth noting that the Supreme Court heard Baze v. Rees yesterday. The case challenges Kentucky's use of a three-drug cocktail to.
Scott covered the important points in his post about the Supreme Court's decision today in Gall and Kimbrough. Boiled down, the Court in these cases says that it meant what.