Stephen Breyer

Puzzled: Why is Fordham Univ giving an award to Justice Breyer?

What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008

Now that I am back home, I am catching up on news and mail.I was aware during my recent travels that Fordham University was planning on giving an award to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. The prize is the Stein Prize in Ethics. Now as I read more about this, and people continue to send me [...]

Obama's Justice

The University of Chicago Law Schoo (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008

On Sunday, September 21, the New York Times published an editorial (“The Candidates and the Court”) predicting that, if elected president, Barack Obama will appoint “moderate” or “centrist” justices, like Stephen Breyer, rather than “all-out liberals, like William Brennan or...

Just Asking

Political Wire (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008

During his weekend interview with Pastor Rick Warren, Sen. John McCain said that if he were president he would have never nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court. McCain wasn't a senator when Stevens was nominated, but why did he nevertheless vote to confirm Ginsburg , Breyer , and Souter ?

Beware the Supreme Court

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...

New Oversight Of Supreme Court Needed

Commentary - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008

In recent decades, from Abe Fortas and Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, to Clinton appointees Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the 1990s, liberal Democrats are rarely disappointed in the......

What Anthony Kennedy Says, Goes

Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008

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 side. So...

• McCain criticizes Obama's high court favorites - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• McCain Keeps Focus on Supreme Court, Judicial Nominations - Washington Wire

Supreme Court rules that child rapists can't be executed

Return of the Conservatives (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008

I can't think of a class of criminal that would warrant being executed more than a child rapist. I am outraged that Anthony Kennedy along with his socialist liberal pals John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer would allow a monster such as Patrick Kennedy to steal one more breath of oxygen rather than to have him executed and sent to burn in hell. From the decision:...

The Supreme Court and The Next President

Contrapuntal News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

Age as of January, 2017, Inauguration Day of the following President: Justice John Paul Stevens: 96 years Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 82 years Justice Antonin Scalia: 80 years -- Conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy: 79 years -- Swing Vote Conservative Justice Stephen Breyer: 78 years Justice David Souter: 77 years -- Swing Vote In other words, the next President will literally define the Supreme...

Please, Somebody Sell Justice Scalia Some Stock - Ann Woolner

Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008

For Chief Justice John Roberts , it's Hewlett-Packard. Stephen Breyer has Colgate-Palmolive, Bank of America, IBM, Nestle. Samuel Alito : Bristol-Myers Squibb and Exxon Mobil. Those companies are among 33 that went to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of killing a lawsuit against them. Victims of South Africa's brutal apartheid era are suing American companies they say aided racist repression there....