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• They Hate Freedom, Except Of Choice: New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda ...

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Cspan, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, Scotus, Supreme Court, They Hate Freedom Except Of Choice

  New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse throws a fit and refuses to allow C-Span to televise a panel discussion (just like Scalia), because she got in trouble last year for basically...

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• They Hate Freedom, Except Of Choice: New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda ...

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Cspan, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, Scotus, Supreme Court, They Hate Freedom Except Of Choice

  New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse throws a fit and refuses to allow C-Span to televise a panel discussion (just like Scalia), because she got in trouble last year for basically admitting she’s a dirty baby-killing liberal (just like Ginsburg). Now everyone knows she’s a liberal and a jerk (just like, uh…

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• Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act

  Published: September 7, 2007, 8:45 am

  Tags: Patriot Act, Scotus, Court Rulings

  From the AP: Judge strikes down part of Patriot ActA federal judge struck down a key part of the USA Patriot Act on Thursday in a ruling that defended the need for judicial oversight of laws and bashed Congress for passing a law that makes possible "far-reaching invasions of liberty." U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero immediately stayed the

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• AG Ficus Update

  Published: September 16, 2007, 4:56 pm

  Tags: Horticulture, Humor, Scotus, John Roberts, Aclj, Justice, Attorney General, Regent University, Wing Nut

  In a previous post, Mick came up with what I believe to be the perfect candidate for the position of new US Attorney General: a potted plant. In comments, yours truly suggested the law school @ Regent University as particularly fertile ground to find a suitable shrub. Besides, I’m pretty sure Regent U. alumnus (and American Center for

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• Lost In That Hopeless Little Scream: David Souter’s BFF claims the Supreme ...

  Published: September 19, 2007, 1:36 pm

  Tags: 2000, Al Gore, David Souter, George W Bush, Lost In That Hopeless Little Scream, Quicklinks, Scotus, Supreme Court, Weeping

  David Souter’s BFF claims the Supreme Court Justice didn’t weep uncontrollably after the United States curled up and died in 2000, but Souter still loathes Washington D.C. and probably...

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• Lost In That Hopeless Little Scream: David Souter’s BFF claims the Supreme ...

  Published: September 19, 2007, 1:36 pm

  Tags: 2000, Al Gore, David Souter, George W Bush, Lost In That Hopeless Little Scream, Quicklinks, Scotus, Supreme Court, Weeping

  David Souter’s BFF claims the Supreme Court Justice didn’t weep uncontrollably after the United States curled up and died in 2000, but Souter still loathes Washington D.C. and probably the Supreme Court, too. [Union Leader]

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• Book Review: Ellery's Protest by Stephen D. Solomon

  Published: September 24, 2007, 5:57 pm

  Tags: Abington Senior High School, Prayer, Schools, Stephen D Solomon, Abington Township, Ellery Schempp, Scotus, Books, Ellery S Protest, Book Review

  On the morning of November 26th, 1956, Ellery Schempp would engage in a small act of protest that would suck the nation into political and theological turmoil that exists to this day. In his homeroom at Abington Senior Highschool in Abington Township, a suburb to the north of Philadelphia, during the morning devotionals in which the King James

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• Frank Rich on Clarence Thomas

  Published: October 7, 2007, 1:30 am

  Tags: Clarence Thomas, Frank Rich, Race, Scotus, 60 Minutes, Rush Limbaugh

  Clarence Thomas is one of the biggest right-wing judicial activists out of many that have been appointed by right-wing presidents. And now, he exposes himself as an angry, bitter man who talks about one vendetta after another, aided and abetted by a

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• Maureen Dowd: Was Clarence Thomas picked because he was Black?

  Published: October 7, 2007, 1:51 am

  Tags: Maureen Down, Rudy Giuliani, Clarence Thomas, Scotus, George W Bush, Al Gore, Race

  Maureen Dowd places herself inside Clarence Thomas' musings, and tries to rationalize him and fails. The fact of the matter is that he was picked even though he had only one year of experience as a judge, and he was picked by Bush I as a way to p

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• Special Rights for the Wealthy.

  Published: October 11, 2007, 7:45 pm

  Tags: Corporate Personhood, Wealthy, Taxes, Poverty, Scotus, Equity Tax

  One of the big problems with the tax system is that there are too many special rights for the wealthy; namely, the fact that many pay much lower taxes than average Americans do. The Washington Post reported this week that the Senate will not advance

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• SCOTUS Legalizes Extraordinary Rendition.

  Published: October 11, 2007, 7:30 pm

  Tags: Extraordinary Renditions, Scotus, World Peace, Governments, Human Rights, Khaled El Masri

  The SCOTUS, in effect, upheld the Constitutionality of extraordinary renditions by refusing to hear the case involving Khaled el-Masri, who was wrongly kidnapped and rendered to Afghanistan and then Albania. The Bush administration had wanted the cou

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• What Clarence Thomas and George Bush have in common.

  Published: November 16, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: George W Bush, Clarence Thomas, Scotus

  Clarence Thomas at work serving on the SCOTUS:Thomas has been long famous for his unwillingness to ask questions at oral argument. Asking questions at oral argument is not really all that unusual, since the entire purpose is for the justices to ask q

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• SCOTUS to Hear Major Second Amendment Case

  Published: November 20, 2007, 1:46 pm

  Tags: Scotus, Supreme Court, Guns, Second Amendment

  A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. For the first time in sixty-eight years, the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear a case to determine just what the Second Amendment "right to keep and bear arms" means: Here is the

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• Gee, Wonder How This Is Going To Turn Out

  Published: November 20, 2007, 3:22 pm

  Tags: Gun Laws, 2nd Amendment, Washington Dc, Supreme Court, Scotus

  to Lyle Denniston of the Scotusblog, the mere phrasing of the court’s order hints at where the court is planning to go on this one: Some observers who read the Court's order closely may suggest that the Court is already inclined toward an individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. That is because the order asks

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• SCOTUS to Take on 2nd Ammendment

  Published: November 21, 2007, 12:58 am

  Tags: Scotus, Gun Control

  ScotusblogAfter a hiatus of 68 years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to rule on the meaning of the Second Amendment the hotly contested part of the Constitution that guarantees a right to keep and bear arms. Not since 1939 has the Court heard a case directly testing the Amendment's scope and there is a debate about whether

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