Justice Kennedy

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

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Justice Kennedy, Supreme Court, Capital Punishment, Child Rape, Harvard University, Rape of a Child, United Nations, Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz, Crc, Sexual Abuse, Spitzer, Perpetrator, Child Sexual Abuse, Living News
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...

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John Roberts Visits Highway 61

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy, Highway 61 Revisited, Antonin Scalia, Guantanamo, Bob Dylan, John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Sprint Supreme Court Case, Politics News
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.

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

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Seth P. Waxman, Justice Kennedy, War on Terror, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, General Paul D. Clement, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Al Odah v. United States, Military Commissions Act, Boumediene v. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Stephen Abraham, John Paul Stevens, Enemy Combatants, Lakmar Boumediene, Joanna Mariner, Human Rights Watch, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Rasul v. Bush, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Politics News
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.

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