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...
The Sideshow (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Barry Crimmins on Alito's dissent in the Supreme Court's recent death penalty decision : " Child abuse thrives when authoritarians rule -- authoritarians like Samuel Alito. Abused kids are already freaked out enough without having bloodthirsty men in robes boohooing their inability to take a life for an eye . Alito has inveighed against compassion at every turn but now we're supposed to believe that...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Douglas Kmiec is the kind of Catholic voter the GOP usually doesn't have to think twice about. The Pepperdine law professor and former Reagan Justice Department lawyer (Samuel Alito was an office mate) attends Mass each morning. He has actively opposed abortion for most of his adult life, working with crisis pregnancy centers to persuade women not to undergo the procedure. He is a member of the conservative...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Meckler notes that “Sen. John McCain says he’s outraged that presidential rival Barack Obama opposed the Senate confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts.” But McCain “seemed a lot less interested in criticizing his close friend” Joe Lieberman for opposing Alito. Lieberman explained his vote [...]
Althouse (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
WaPo reports: McCain emphasized that he would seek out Supreme Court appointees along the lines of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, saying they're the kind of jurists who will rule in favor of crime victims. "They will be the kind of judges who believe in giving everyone in a criminal court their due: justice for the guilty and the innocent, compassion for the victims, and respect...
Paul Soglin: Waxing America (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
It is clear that the Nader Supreme Court with the additions of the two most recent appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito will viciously reshape American law until the time comes when one of the five conservative...
Tammy Bruce (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
The Beast. The decision was 5-4. As with the Gitmo decision, the usual suspects failed us: Kennedy wrote the majority opinion. Dissenting in the case were Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Samuel Alito. Kennedy noted, btw, the "evolving standards of decency" affected the decision. I would say so--the last of a decency standard of the SCOTUS Gang...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
This morning, the Supreme Court issued a 5-3 decision (Justice Samuel Alito did not participate) slashing punitive damages Exxon Mobil must pay for the 1989 Valdez spill disaster from $2.5 billion to $500 million. “Nearly 33,000 Alaskans are in line to share in the award,” AP reports, which have been cut now from $75,000 each [...]
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
"In Atlantic Yards Favor?" We think they meant "In Atlantic Yards's Favor," but yes, the Supreme Court (excepting, at minimum, Justice Samuel Alito ) did do Atlantic Yards a favor in not taking Goldstein v. Pataki . And the Daily News and the Post did Forest City Ratner a favor, too, by penning editorials that saved the company's PR department from having to come up with something of their own. Yesterday's...
JasonPye.com (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Samuel Alito seems to be a solid supporter for property rights:[I]t’s exceedingly rare for individual justices to have the clerk record how they voted on a cert petition, but here Justice Alito did just that, and in a case that...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Justice Samuel Alito was not on the Supreme Court when it handed down Kelo in 2005. However, today he revealed that he may not be a big fan of that decision....
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
John Paul Stevens 88 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 75 Antonin Scalia 72 Anthony McLeod Kennedy 71 Stephen Gerald Breyer 69 David Souter 68 Clarence Thomas 59 Samuel Alito 58 John G Roberts 53 There's a near certaintly that the next President will be appointing at least one Justice to the Supreme Court and I'm pretty sure Senator Obama will not be appointing any Constitutionalists. The Republicans are in the...
The Sundries Shack (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Many of my fellow conservatives who are tenative John McCain supporters have told me that one of the two big reasons theyr’e behind him is his oft-made promise to appoint judges “in the mold of Chief Justice John Robert and Justice Samuel Alito”. Perhaps they should hear what sweet nothings Johnny Mac is whispering in [...]
Innisfree (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Thank God Anthony Kennedy is his own man... In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called "the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants." Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas also dissented. Scalia said the nation is "at war with radical Islamists" and that...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Over the protestations of Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas that some should have fewer rights than others.... today the Supreme Court ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have the constitutional right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts. [...]
