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Review: 'American Original' by Joan Biskupic
Cook :: NE :: USA | 3 days ago
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Before obtaining a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States, Antonin Scalia taught law at the University of Chicago. His colleagues and students there during the late 1970s and into the 1980s understood they were in the presence...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Joan Biskupic, Constitution of Supreme Court, court justices, Cook, Bradley Foundation, Supreme Court of the United States, Clarence Thomas, John G. Roberts, Samuel Alito, Law Crime
US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas visits UA
Tuscaloosa :: AL :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice Clarence Thomas speaks to law students at the University of Alabama School of Law during the Fall 2009 Albritton Lecture in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. United States Supreme Court Justice...
Tags: United States Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, law students, court justices, justices clarence
Justice Ruth Ginsburg hospitalized for drowsiness
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized overnight after experiencing extreme drowsiness but was later released, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday. Spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Ginsburg, who has been treated for pancreatic cancer,...
Tags: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice, justices ruth, hospitalized overnight, Ruth Ginsburg, briefly hospitalized, court justices, cancer surgery, surgery earlier
Court mulls law on animal cruelty
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to let stand a federal law barring some depictions of animal cruelty, such as dogfighting videos, by declaring that such images are not protected by the First Amendment. But a broad spectrum...
Tags: animal cruelty, US Supreme Court, federal law, dog fight, court justices, cruelty video, Congress, human sacrifice, court weighs, free speech, Washington
Sotomayor to be ceremonially sworn in
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, already a member of the court, takes a ceremonial oath of office to be formally welcomed to the bench. In the ceremony called investiture, Chief Justice John Roberts was to administer the oath to Sotomayor Tuesday,...
Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, justices sonia, Obama, court justices, John G. Roberts, president obama, judicial oath
Justice Stevens slows his hiring at high court
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has hired fewer law clerks than usual, generating speculation that the leader of the court's liberals will retire next year. If Stevens does step down, he would give President Barack Obama his second high court...
Tags: John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice, justices stevens, justices john, court justices, Barack Obama, law clerk
Sotomayor sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility In the first private oath, she promised to support and defend the Constitution. After the second oath, Roberts congratulated Sotomayor and welcomed her to the high court. She then embraced her mother and her brother, who was standing beside her during...
Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, US Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court, John G. Roberts, chief justices, Juan Luis Sotomayor, justices john, sotomayor sworn, puerto ricans, court justices
Supreme court justices have it too good | Jack Balkin
Columbia :: SC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Supreme court justices have it too good Life on the US supreme court has become too comfortable. Judges should hear more cases and be replaced regularly Justice David Souter has many virtues as a jurist: he has been a modest, thoughtful and lawyerly...
Fond Philly farewell for Souter from judges
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Supreme Court Justice David Souter is saying a fond farewell to judges and lawyers he has worked with for nearly two decades.Souter says members of the legal profession should take satisfaction in doing "something worth doing" and trying "to do it well."He...
Tags: David Souter, Justice Souter Describes Judges, justices david, Supreme Court, court justices, Patrick Leahy, Erick Erickson, fond farewell
Supreme Court Justice Souter plans to retire
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The official, who requested anonymity, confirmed reports late on Thursday by NBC News and National Public Radio that Souter, one of the court's liberal members, would step down. An appointment by Obama, a Democrat who praised the court's liberal-leaning...
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