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Mike Sacks

Clarence Thomas' Questions, Part 3: The Myth of Scalia's Puppet Is Quashed As Quickly As It's Created

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 11.23.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Video, Crime, Eighth Amendment, United States v. Fordice, Antonin Scalia, Race, Clarence Thomas, Resegregation, Gonzales v Raich, Segregation, Desegregation, Death Penalty, Health Care, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Politics News

Twenty years ago this month, Justice Clarence Thomas appeared for the first time on the bench for oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Out of the cas...

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Mike Sacks

Chief Justice Roberts Defends Scalia's Honor

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.01.2012 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Video, 9th Circuit, Minneci v. Pollard, Antonin Scalia, Eighth Amendment, Prisons, Chief Justice Roberts, Elena Kagan, Ninth Circuit, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- It's 9th Circuit smackdown season at the Supreme Court and, judging from Tuesday morning's oral arguments, Richard Lee Pollard could be ...

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Mike Sacks

VIDEO: Supreme Court Will Ponder Bad Lawyers, Broken Elbows And Eyewitness IDs

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.28.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Lawyers, Video, Sixth-Amendment, Eyewitness Id, Minneci v. Pollard, Missouri v. Frye, Eyewitness Identification, Eighth Amendment, Lafler v. Cooper, Due Process, Perry v. New Hampshire, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Monday for another two weeks of oral arguments. Next week's docket is stacked with criminal ca...

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Court Sides With Kids Sentenced to Life in Epic Battle Over Our Constitutional Rights

Chris Cassidy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Originalism, Judicial Activism, Terrance Graham, Graham v. Florida, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Eighth Amendment, Politics News
Chris Cassidy

The ruling is a rare and welcome bright spot from the Roberts Court, which is prone to siding with the government and corporations against individuals asserting their constitutional rights.

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