Conservative Supreme Court Justices

Obama's Justice

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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Geoffrey R. Stone

For the Supreme Court not to have liberal justices within its inner counsels undermines the Court's mission and leaves it intellectually crippled. It is flying on one wing.

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McCain's Court: Change We Don't Need

Cass R. Sunstein | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

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Cass R. Sunstein

There is a close connection between the constitutional views of McCain's preferred judges and the political views of the extreme right-wing of the GOP.

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Triumph of Politics Over Law (Part II)

Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

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Shahid Buttar

Despite the changing winds of politics, the expansion of the voting franchise has been one of our most consistent trends since the birth of the Republic.

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Obama Sides With....The Bush Supreme Court?

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media

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By taking an expansive position on capital punishment and siding with the Bush-and-McCain wing of the Court, Obama just made the distinction about what kind of Supreme Court appointments he might make less clear-cut. Perhaps that was the point.

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Supreme Court Hands Exxon $2 Billion... and Progressives an Opening

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Doug Kendall

At a time when gas prices and oil company profits are record highs, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken $2 billion from 32,000 Americans who lost their livelihood in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

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Fear-Mongering, Activism, and the Guantanamo Cases

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

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Doug Kendall

By Doug Kendall and Elizabeth Wydra Conservatives love to decry result-oriented judging--except when they don't like the results compelled by the law...

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Politicization of Voting Rights (Part I)

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

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Shahid Buttar

Today, as the nation prepares to rid itself of the presidential yoke imposed seven years ago by the Supreme Court, the Court continues to engage in partisan judicial activism.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.03.2008 | Media

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Scientists ordered to lie by Bush administration; Pentagon suspends its illegal retired military analyst program; Rumsfeld's propaganda; Federal Elections Commission paralyzed.

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Conservative Supreme Court Justices Skeptically Question DC Handgun Ban

Reuters | James Vicini | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

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The U.S. capital's strict gun control law faced a barrage of skeptical questions on Tuesday from the U.S. Supreme Court's conservatives. A majority o...

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Thomas: No Questions in 2 Years

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Two years and 144 cases have passed since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last spoke up at oral arguments. It is a period of ...

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Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — An attempt to blast a crippled U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile _ possibly on Wednesday night _ ...

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Supreme Injustices

Bradley Whitford | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics

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Bradley Whitford

It's not too late to take back the Court. Supreme Court Justices may keep their jobs for life, but the person with the power to appoint them does not. Conservatives know where their candidates stand on judges. Do you?

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Giuliani To Conservatives: I'll Pick Your Kind Of Judges

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

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Rudy Giuliani assured a conservative legal group Friday that if elected president he would appoint federal judges who adhere to their principles. He a...

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Supreme Imbalance: Why Judicial Passivism is Wrong

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics

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Geoffrey R. Stone

By evading their duty to enforce the Constitution in a meaningful manner, judicial passivists betray a central feature of our constitutional system.

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Supreme Imbalance: Conservative Activism on the Supreme Court

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics

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Geoffrey R. Stone

Apparently, the Equal Protection Clause, is to be used for only two purposes -- to invalidate affirmative action and to invalidate the recount process in the 2000 presidential election.

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Supreme Imbalance: Of Liberals and Conservatives

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics

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Geoffrey R. Stone

In my view, "Conservative activism" is the least principled and least justified approach of judicial conservatives. Unfortunately, it is also the prevalent form on the Supreme Court today.

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