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- Justice Kennedy warns ABA of 'slight foreboding'
  Posted by Billbar from Rawstory
  Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the third most senior judge on the Supreme Court who has often been its swing vote, addressed the state of the rule of law in America and globally on August 5, 2006. His remarks came during the keynote address at the ABA's Annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. "We are at another turning point in the history of the law," Kennedy remarked. Discussing the importance of an independent judiciary, Kennedy added, "I sense a slight foreboding, I sense that we are not making the case as well as we ought."
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- Scalia rejects Texas GOP appeal on DeLay
  Posted by Jeff from Yahoo News!
  Apparently, Scalia has a moral value. Or perhaps he thought it was too close to election time to take this up. Score one seat for Democrats in Texas.
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- Justices Back Most G.O.P. Changes to Texas Districts
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld most of the Texas congressional map engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay but threw out part, saying some of the new boundaries failed to protect minority voting rights.
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- Justices KO law on political funds
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Bush's right wing court overturns Vermont's spending limits. When will the Court decide that democracy is endangered by money in politics - and that this trumps free speech in political campaigns? When the Court is no longer packed with biased corporatists.
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- High court upholds Oregon assisted-suicide law
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  "Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people trumped federal authority to regulate doctors. New Chief Justice John Roberts backed the Bush administration, dissenting with the majority for the first time." Huge victory for individual rights. You can see how Roberts would vote on abortion.
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- Abortion Politics - Newsweek Politics
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  "Any activist will tell you they'd rather have the issue out there than to have it resolved," says this pro-choice Republican, who has worked on the Hill and for various Republican interest groups. "If Roe were overturned, we'd be electing Democrats as far as the eye can see." Clift gets at the ultimate hypocrisy of GOP leadership - they're using the religious right. They'll never actually overturn Roe and Alito is probably on board with that.
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- Alito's Wife Accused to Fake Tears During Graham Questioning
  Posted by Jeff from Dailykos
  Interesting DailyKos post...could it be the Republicans are just putting on a show? :)
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Duo take Obama birth challenge to Court

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NYT Lock and Load - Supreme Court Ruling on Gun Rights

An extremely well written argument against yesterday’s right-wing ruling on the Court.

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3:09 pm 6/27/08
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Supreme Court rejects death for child rape

I saw today that Obama came out in support of the death penalty for child rape:
"I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes," Obama said at a news conference. "I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution."

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12:08 pm 6/26/08
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Supreme Court rejects death for child rape

Life in prison is good enough…if they survive. It’s not like child rapists get to live the life of Reilly(Riley?) in prison.

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4:26 pm 6/25/08
Jon comments on:
Lessig: Make Way for Copyright Chaos

Definitely worth a read: Lessig is one of the more interesting legal minds out there.

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Jeff comments on:
Justices Back Most G.O.P. Changes to Texas Districts
The Supreme Court is losing its legitimacy.
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9:02 am 6/28/06

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