Supreme Court Justices

The Supreme Court and Health Care: A Wake-Up Call to Political Reality

Robert K. Lifton | Posted 04.10.2012

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It is high time that the American voters look behind the wizard's curtain that hides the reality that the judges are making the law to fit their personal political preferences. Once citizens appreciate that reality, they can take the next step.

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Constitution Check: Would an Elected Supreme Court Get More Respect?

Lyle Denniston | Posted 04.10.2012

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Among scholars who want the U.S. Supreme Court changed, most want term limits, not elections. The reason seems obvious, given the politics of the day.

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Thomas Makes Blunt Assessment Over Colleagues' Style

AP | By BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 04.06.2012

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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Maybe it's Southern courtesy or his introverted nature that keeps him from interrupting attorneys during oral arguments, Supreme Cou...

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Let's Talk About Impeaching Supreme Court Justices

Nathan Newman | Posted 04.05.2012

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Progressives need to get over their recent attachment to the courts as an institution and recognize that unelected judges have overwhelmingly been the enemy of civil rights and economic justice in this nation.

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Did Justice Thomas Take Personal Leave During the Healthcare Arguments?

David Coleman | Posted 04.05.2012

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How can a sentient judge, responsible for casting a deciding vote in a 5-4 case -- that is widely said to be the most important of the decade -- sit through the proceedings mute for six hours?

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Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 03.31.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week's marathon arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that i...

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Health Care Being Decided In Secret

Posted 03.30.2012

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By James Vicini WASHINGTON--U.S. Supreme Court justices on Friday held closed-door deliberations on President Barack Obama's healthcare overhau...

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Health Care Reform's Fate Now Rests With The Justices

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.29.2012

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WASHINGTON — While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health...

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Supreme Court Throws Fate Of Health Care Law Into Question

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.27.2012

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WASHINGTON — The fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative...

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Inside The Supreme Court Justices' Styles

AP | By JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 03.26.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Six men and three women will emerge from behind red velvet curtains, black-robed and silent. They will step up toward a raised bench in ...

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Justice Sotomayor Hears a Case on Sesame Street

Lisa McElroy | Posted 04.21.2012

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Justice Sotomayor is known for being down-to-earth and approachable. Even so, it's not so often that people just walk up to her on the street and ask her to resolve their disputes. Unless she's on Sesame Street, that is.

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10 New Year's Resolutions the Supreme Court Should Adopt

Eric Segall | Posted 02.26.2012

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Enter the 21st century and allow television cameras in the Courtroom: What are you trying to hide?

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Supreme Court Justices Asked To Sit Out Health Care Case

AP | By MARK SHERMAN | Posted 11.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congr...

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The Not-So-Supreme Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 01.13.2012

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WASHINGTON — Nothing about the Supreme Court – not its magnificent building atop Capitol Hill nor its very title – suggests that its...

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Equal Justice Under Law?

Stephen Wyse | Posted 12.13.2011

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The maxim that "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" has found a new expression in the nearly absolute discretion that U.S. Supreme Court has in decidi...

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Who's Urging Supreme Court To Listen To GOP Judge On Health Care?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 11.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- When the Justice Department submitted a petition to the Supreme Court yesterday urging it to declare once and for all that the 2010 heal...

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Diversity, Faith And The Supreme Court

Mark Osler | Posted 10.28.2011

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Currently, there are six Catholics and three Jews on that bench, leaving no one who shares a faith background with the 51 percent of Americans who are Protestant.

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30 Years Ago: The Nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 09.05.2011

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It's hard to imagine Justices Roberts or Alito or Thomas fixing salmon mousse in preparation for being appointed to the Court. Sandra Day O'Connor might not have gained the appointment if she hadn't.

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A Retired Supreme Court Justice's Video Game Revolution

Newsweek | Danielle Friedman | Posted 09.02.2011

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Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has launched a series of videogames that teach kids about government. She talks to Danielle Friedman ...

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talks Supreme Court Retirement Plans

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 09.01.2011

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WASHINGTON — Democrats and liberals have a nightmare vision of the Supreme Court's future: President Barack Obama is defeated for re-election ne...

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WATCH: Aspen Ideas Fest: Does The Supreme Court Follow The People?

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 09.01.2011

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The U.S. Supreme Court has had a hefty couple years. From the 'Citizens United' ruling which opened the floodgates of corporate money in politics to ...

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Justice Ginsburg Worries About Supreme Court's Politicization

Posted 08.31.2011

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed concern over the increasing influence of politics on the Supreme Court in a recent interview with USA Today. ...

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Retiring Justice Stevens Writing Book On 5 Chief Justices

WSJ | Ashby Jones | Posted 06.29.2011

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Retirement (or at least the retirement we plan for ourselves someday: a total and complete devotion to cheap gin, expensive chorizo, bad golf, daytime...

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Obama's Empathy for the Supreme Court

John Paul Rollert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Skepticism like Sotomayor's is a challenge to the President's jurisprudence. If the law strays into uncertainty, it does not necessarily follow that a judge should rely on personal experience instead.

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Keep Those Federal Judges Coming...

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

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The decision by a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Christian group against the new health care law is proof of just how impo...

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