Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's a pretty good crowd for a summer Friday morning at Kennedy Center. From stage right (where else?) Justice Antonin Scalia enters.
Right Wing Watch (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
As John McCain continues to work to win over right-wing leaders, activists, and voters, the one constant theme he has been hammering is his pledge to nominate judges like John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court; a promise...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Retiring New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse has answered some more questions from readers at nytimes.com. After an earlier revelation that she considers the former ACLU lawyer Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a centrist comes details of her deep affection for late ultra-liberal Justice William Brennan , whose decisions favored explicit racial quotas, no limits on abortion, mandatory...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The New York Times sent veteran Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse into retirement in grand style on Sunday, turning over to her the front page of the Week in Review for " 2,691 Decisions ," a title marking the number of court cases she had covered during her tenure. Unmentioned were her off-the-clock denunciations of conservatives, as in her infamous speech at Harvard in June 2006 when she tore...
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Digby points out that Linda Greenhouse, the NYTimes Supreme Court reporter for many many years, is hanging up her pen. Her last column recall the importance of defeating Robert Bork : It has made a substantial difference during these last 21 years that Anthony Kennedy got the seat intended for Robert Bork. The invective aimed at Justice Kennedy from the right this year alone, for his majority opinions...
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- the two oldest Supreme Court justices and half of its liberal wing -- are considered the most likely to retire during the next president's term in office.
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburt are oldest justices on the Supreme Court, and could step down in next administration, but not necessarily. Read the full story
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
WASHINGTON — John Paul Stevens still plays tennis at 88. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, works out regularly in the Supreme Court gym.
Southern Appeal (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Here is today’s spit-take inducing comment, courtesy of David Broder, concerning Justice Anthony Kennedy appointment to the Supreme Court: It turned out to be successful beyond Reagan’s wildest dreams. And it gets, er, better: Kennedy was exactly what Reagan thought — “a true conservative” and “a courageous, tough, but fair” jurist. The 1987 edition of the Almanac of the [...]
Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Hat tip to Booker Rising Sometimes you read stuff and go WTF? What Barack Obama owes Clarence Thomas: Lately, I’ve had the most spirited debates with my students and friends, and I always come away feeling like the loser. Is Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court appointment the biggest development in U.S. race relations since the civil rights movement? I, for [...]
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The liberal writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and lecturer at Case Western Reserve University argues that the liberal U.S. Senator owes a debt to the conservative U.S. Supreme Court jurist : "I, for argument's sake, draw a straight line between Barack Obama's White House aspirations and the embarrassing spectacle of Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation. As soon as I dare utter 'Thomas' in...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
WASHINGTON Justice Anthony Kennedy vaulted from California to the Supreme Court 20 years ago, seemingly with his eyes wide open.
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The Supreme Court overturned the most stringent handgun ban in the country, towards the end of last month. In a 5-4 decision, the Court struck down the Washington D.C. statute banning the public possession of a firearm. In a majority ruling written by conservative justice Antonin Scalia, the Court issued a direct rebuke to gun control advocates, who have long argued that the first clause of the Second...
Heavy-Handed Politics (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
By Rich Lowry Why did the Founders bother toiling in the summer heat of Philadelphia in 1787 writing a Constitution when they could have relied on the consciences of Supreme Court justices like Anthony Kennedy instead? Kennedy is the Supreme Court's most important swing vote and its worst justice. Whatever else you think of them, a Justice Scalia or Ginsburg has a consistent judicial philosophy, while...
Heavy-Handed Politics (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
By William Rusher It must be fun to be Justice Anthony Kennedy. You show up for a conference at the Supreme Court and almost always find that four of your colleagues (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens) are lined up on the liberal side of every ideological issue, while the other four (John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas) are on the conservative...
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abportail | 06/17/2008
Emma Roberts-Greets her fans as she attends and event at The Grove shopping center
abportail | 06/15/2008
Emma Roberts - Kit Kittredge "An American Girl" Premiere and After Party - Los Angeles - June 14"
andee29 | 06/10/2008
ABC News Controversial New Movement: Autistic and Proud Activists Say Stop Looking for a Cure and Accept Autistic People as They Are By DEBORAH ROBERTS, MICHELLE MAJOR and JONANN BRADY June 10, 2008 — Ari Ne'eman and Kristina Chew say they are the faces and voices of autism's future. They're part of a controversial group hoping to radically change the way others look at autism. Their message: Stop
