John Paul Stevens

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stevens To Speak At UF

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The nation's oldest and longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens, is sharing his knowledge with University of Florida law school students. The 88-year-old jurist and friend of U.S....

The Case of the Seven Aphorisms

Sunday, November 16, 2008; Page B05 Let's stipulate: Summum is weird. All of which merely illuminates the First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Since 1971, the town's...

Obama’s legacy at Harvard

Obama’s win has made having “brains” sexy again, shares another Harvard graduate. Americans have picked someone who is a clear intellectual, rejecting the perception that politicians who were too intellectual were out of touch...

A funeral procession on angel dust

OR: Predictable fallout from the election of Barack Hussein Obama to the Office of the President of the United States of America Some things observed in the cacophanous concerto of life can simultaneously stupefy the most...

Obama likely to push US courts away from right

Saturday, November 15, 2008 WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama will have a chance to appoint dozens of sympathetic judges to U.S. federal courts over the next four years, reversing the judiciary’s shift to the right under...

The sonar ruling: National defense prevails

Finally a decision on national security that isn't all wet: The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed lower court rulings restricting the Navy's use of sonar in training exercises off the coast of Southern California.

Obama likely to push courts away from right

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama will have a chance to appoint dozens of sympathetic judges to U.S. federal courts over the next four years, reversing the judiciary's shift to the right under President George...

Sonia Sotomayor: Obama’s First Supreme Court Appointment?

Sonia Sotomayor is reportedly on Barack Obama’s short-list for the Supreme Court. If nominated and confirmed, she would be the first Hispanic person to serve as a Supreme Court justice. Sonia Sotomayor Biography of Sonia...

U.S. top court considers religious monument dispute

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday on whether a city violated a religious group's free-speech rights by refusing to put its monument in a public park near a similar Ten Commandments...

Another Reason I am So Happy Obama Won

Supreme Court Justices...With the disappointing decision today to overturn two court orders that had tried to restrict the use of sonar around whales and other marine mammals by the Navy while conducting "war games" in the...

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