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Supreme Court ruling on child rape strikes a blow to human rights.

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living


Michealene Cristini Risley

Last Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy s...

John Roberts Visits Highway 61

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics


Doug Kendall

As the Sprint case indicates, the Supreme Court's liberals are increasingly finding that constitutional history supports progressive outcomes, while the conservatives are willing to discount inconvenient historical arguments.

Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: The Most Important Habeas Corpus Case in Modern History

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics


Andy Worthington

Tomorrow's hearing is of colossal importance, not only to the detainees in Guantánamo, many of whom are about to start their seventh year of imprisonment without charge or trial, but also to the government.