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Harold Koh: Supreme Court Nominee? All You Need To Know

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

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Harold Koh, current dean of the Yale Law School, is one the top prospects for President Obama's Supreme Court nominee once Justice David Souter retire...

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Obama Must Not Waver On A Souter Replacement

Oliver Willis | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Politics, US Supreme Court, David Souter, Supreme Court Justices, David Souter Retires, Barack Obama, Politics News
Oliver Willis

Obama should be constantly reminded that he has no excuse not to act from a posture of strength. He should appoint an honest-to-goodness liberal to the Supreme Court.

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AZ Sheriff: Schools Employees Should Question Children About their Legal Status

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Arizona, Illegal Immigrants, Justice-William-Brennan, Jack Lasota, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Arpaio, U.S. Supreme Court, Ee, Politics News
Marlene H. Phillips

If Sheriff Clarence Dupnik gets his way, children in Arizona schools may be asked to answer questions that have nothing to do with reading, writing and arithmetic.

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One Strip-Search Too Many

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Strip-Searches, Justice Breyer, Teenagers, U.S. Supreme Court, Living News
Tamar Abrams

How many of us are willing to send our preteen and adolescent kids to school each morning, open to the possibility that they may be strip-searched for Tylenol?

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Justice Clarence Thomas: Too Much Focus On Rights

New York Times | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

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Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question from the Supreme Court bench since Feb. 22, 2006. He speaks only to announce his majority opinions, r...

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Justice Extends To Bagram, Guantanamo's Dark Mirror

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: US Supreme Court, Amin Al-Bakri, Haji Wazir, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo, Redha Al-Najar, Obama Administration, Justice Department, US District Court, International Justice Network, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Fadi Al-Maqaleh, Bagram, Enemy Combatants, Bagram Detainees, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Afghanistan, Cuba, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Andy Worthington

Whereas Gitmo prisoners had, over the years, secured habeas corpus rights, none of these privileges had been extended to the prisoners in Bagram.

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Scalia the Homophobe and Barney Frank the Hero

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barney Frank, Antonin Scalia, Homophobia, Scalia, Samuel Alito, Gay, Constitution, Scalia-Homophobe, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

Barney Frank has called one of the most senior justices of the Supreme Court a homophobe.

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Court Will Not Expand Minority Voting Rights

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court limited the reach of the Voting Rights Act on Monday, a decision that could make it harder for some minority cand...

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My Appointments for the Supreme Court

Christian Nwachukwu, Jr. | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

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Christian Nwachukwu, Jr.

Here is my wish list for Supreme Court justices. Is this list biased? Doubtless. I did not undertake this exercise as either journalist or adviser, but rather, as citizen.

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Wyeth Loses Supreme Court Case, Opens Consumer Suits Against Pharma

Reuters | Lisa Richwine and James Vicini | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday, holding that pharmaceutical companies can be held liabl...

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Supreme Court Decisions Increasingly Influenced By YouTube

New York Times | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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The Supreme Court is entering the YouTube era. The first citation in a petition filed with the court last month, for instance, was not to an affidavi...

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Our Rights in Peril: The Future of the Courts

Rabbi David Saperstein | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

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Rabbi David Saperstein

The upcoming change in Administration makes us optimistic that the rightward shift of the courts will end -- but this optimism cannot be an excuse for complacency.

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Bad News, Good News For The Guantanamo Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: US Supreme Court, Judge Judith Rogers, US Appeals Court, Adel Hakimjan, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Adel Abdul Hakim, Barack Obama, Enemy Combatant, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, UN Convention Against Torture, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Albania, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, Huzaifa Parhat, Sweden, China, US Asylum, Guantanamo Files, World News
Andy Worthington

First, the good news. Adel Abdul Hakim, one of five Uighurs (Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province), who was released from Guantánamo in M...

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How to Knock Off a Justice or Two

Michael Wolff | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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Michael Wolff

Nobody leaves -- these incredibly, horrifyingly old people hang on well past reasonable retirement age. In some sense the mission of the court has been merely to preserve itself, its look, feel and balance.

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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two)

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Vanity Fair, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Guantanamo Tribunals, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Morris Davis, David Rose, Rasul v. Bush, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Dick Cheney Iraq War, Closing Guantanamo, Iraq, Politics News
Andy Worthington

I have covered the Military Commissions in depth and at no point has it ever been demonstrated that the system dreamt up by Cheney and Addington in November 2001 is "fair and honest."

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Chicago Handgun Ban Survives First Challenge

Chicago Tribune | Carlos Sadovi and Hal Dardick | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago won round one in its defense of the city's handgun ban, but Mayor Richard Daley said today he's looking at less sweeping gun control measures ...

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The End of Legal Limbo

Nan Aron | Posted 01.09.2009 | Home

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Nan Aron

When Mr. Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri legally brought his wife and children from Qatar to Peoria, Illinois, on September 10, 2001, he had planned to earn...

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NOAA(H) and the Whales

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

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Christopher Brauchli

Pity the poor whale. All it wants is to peacefully swim in the ocean. Instead it finds itself caught up in a net of litigation and rule-making processes.

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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.

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Why Guantanamo Must Be Closed: Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

In an attempt to separate fact from fiction, I'd like to offer my advice, based on the three years I have spent studying Guantanamo in unprecedented detail.

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Prop 8's Victory is a Big Loss for California Supreme Court

Peter Scheer | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

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Peter Scheer

Although its name did not even appear on the ballot, the California Supreme Court was perhaps the state's biggest loser in Tuesday's historic elections.

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Premature Emancipation? A Pragmatist's View of the Gay Marriage Struggle

Gary Cohan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Gary Cohan

Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.

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Here Come the Four Horses of the Apocalypse, FDA Lawyers

Doug Bremner | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Doug Bremner

This weekend was All Soul's Day, so I thought it appropriate that our own four horsemen of the apocalypse are ushering in our day of doom.

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The Supreme Court Is at Stake on November 4th

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, John McCain, Ed Koch, Roe vs Wade, Constitutional Rights, Barack Obama, John McCain Supreme Court, Sarah Palin, Supreme Court Justices, Politics News
Menachem Rosensaft

If John McCain or, even worse, Sarah Palin, were to appoint the next several Supreme Court justices, their repressive, regressive world view would shape our nation's future for decades to come.

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Supreme Court Accidentally Protects Voters While Stripping Americans Of Their Rights

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 11.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Rights, US Supreme Court, Ohio Republican Party, Civil Rights, Ohio, Help America Vote Act, Gonzaga v Doe, Democratic Party, Voting Rights, Republican Party, Voting, Private Right of Action, Jennifer Brunner, Hava, Alexander v Sandoval, Home News
Cristóbal Joshua Alex

Last week's Supreme Court decision in Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party is a disastrous ruling masquerading as a populist victory. Sure, the Court stop...

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