Indian Kavya Literature, Vol. 6 (Warder, Anthony Kennedy//Indian Kavya Literature)
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Last week, the West Virginia Supreme Court issued a well-deserved slap in the face to a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, which all too often makes up the law out of whole cloth to meet its latest view of...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Wall Street Journal reports: Justice Anthony Kennedy got into a messy situation this month after a widely circulated report that his office made a school newspaper get permission before running an article about the justice. It turns out the incident at New York’s Dalton School wasn’t the only such case.... In an interview with The Wall Street [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! Long-time CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has decided to leave the cable network. He made this announcement on last night's show and this is effective immediately. TVNewser has more details and Hotline has the text of his announcement. Looks like NYT 's Media Decoder broke the story. And here's how Media Matters reacted . Could Dobbs be considering a future run for political office?...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
In the midst of economic contraction unseen since the Great Depression, it is unsurprising that the economic developments plans of the City of New London now lay in ruins. Opponents of a government that is accountable to voters are rejoicing in this opportunity to again criticize the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo . Here is the WSJ Editorial Page : The Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Kelo v. City...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Supreme Court Justice and First Amendment fetishist Anthony Kennedy would not let some high school newspaper to publish an article about his recent visit to Manhattan’s Dalton School until he approved the piece first. “‘The justice’s office received a draft of the proposed article on Monday and returned it to the newspaper the same day [...] Anthony Kennedy - Supreme Court of...
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
WSJ Review and Outlook, Nov. 9, 2009 : "Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. As President Obama likes to say, this was a "teachable moment" about our current government. The vote was 220 to 215,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
WASHINGTON — Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack. Terrance Graham, implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17, was given a life sentence by a judge who told the teenager he threw his life away. They didn't kill anyone, but they effectively were sentenced to die in prison. Life sentences...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
You might have noticed as of late that the Wrap-Up has taken on a very predictable cadence. The polling news comes first, with numbers and analysis. Then, in bullet form, the political news of the day soon follows. Well, there is good news and bad news on this Friday afternoon/evening. The bad news: near as I can tell, there is no new polling to report today (not surprising: after exhausting themselves...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
There's been lots of Buzz lately about Anthony Kennedy Shriver of Miami - son of Sargent and Eunice, brother of Maria - running for Florida governor. We haven't heard back from him, but it sounds like he is very seriously...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Constitutional-law experts scrambled Monday to apply meaning to an order issued by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, temporarily blocking the release of the names of those who signed Referendum 71 in what has been a months-long legal exchange.
The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
At SCOTUS Blog, Lyle Deniston notes an interesting development: This afternoon, Justice Anthony Kennedy issued an order temporarily restoring an injunction preventing the public disclosure of the names of people who signed a petition in favor of a referendum on Washington’s new quasi-marriage law. Attorneys for the signers have noted that petition signers have not had their names publicly disclosed...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who signed a ballot measure on gay rights.
Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked D.C. from releasing the names of people who signed a ballot measure on gay rights.
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Nobody Like Her by digby This post by Michelle Goldberg gives tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, something that isn't done enough, and should be. There has never been a Justice like her, and there never will be again. She's a true feminist hero, and as much as people believe that those battles are long over, and perhaps now even believe that the victories were inevitable, they're not and they weren't....
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin again turned to his usual labeling of the ideological split on the Supreme Court on Monday’s American Morning. Toobin labeled Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts “very conservative” three times, as opposed to the mere “liberal” justices on the Court. The analyst also bizarrely claimed that the “liberal side” of the body...
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