http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/supremes/ en-us Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:28:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080185/posts In a thinly veiled dig at George Bush, Vladimir Putin today suggested that the US President was not in charge of American affairs, saying that it was “the court that makes the king”. Amid heightened tensions with the US in the wake of the war in Georgia, the Russian Prime Minister insisted that the US leader was a man of honour and integrity, but blamed members of the administration for the sharp deterioration of relations with Russia. ”I still hope we will maintain good relations, but it is the court that makes the king,” he told a group of foreign... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080185/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:28:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038531/posts Liberals, who hate guns almost as much as they hate cars, got a well-deserved lesson in Second Amendment rights when the Supreme Court spit in their face by ruling that the Constitution really does guarantee the right of Americans to own guns. The ruling, which struck down the District of Columbia’s laws almost totally restricting handgun ownership, affirmed the traditional view that the Second Amendment means exactly what it says when it guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038531/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030558/posts As the world has just learned, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 yesterday that “for the first time in our Nation’s history, the Court confers a constitutional right to habeas corpus on alien enemies detained abroad by our military forces in the course of an ongoing war.” So summed up Justice Scalia in a stinging dissent in which he was joined by justices Roberts, Thomas, and Alito. Justices Kennedy, Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, made up the majority Breyer. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030558/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:09:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021898/posts The Supreme Court is meeting to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases. Major cases still undecided include the rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., and whether people convicted of raping children can be given the death penalty. The court's term ends in late June. The Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021898/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 14:51:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019075/posts As the primary season nears a merciful end, the Clinton-Obama conflict is giving way to Obama-Clinton conjecture. Many in the Democratic Party support a so-called dream ticket of both, with Barack Obama at the top. They believe Hillary Clinton has earned the No. 2 spot through her feisty, never-say-die campaign, and they worry that her supporters will stay home in November if she isn't part of the ticket. Opponents counter that in terms of the electoral vote, Clinton might not help carry any states that wouldn't already go for Obama. Moreover, the possibility of both Clintons ganging up on a... wasingtonpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019075/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 12:38:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018016/posts WASHINGTON — John McCain and Barack Obama, the two leading presidential candidates, have set out sharply contrasting views on the role of the Supreme Court and the kind of justices they would appoint. Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.), in a speech two weeks ago, echoed the views of conservatives who say "judicial activism" is the central problem facing the judiciary. He called it the "common and systematic abuse . . . by an elite group . . . we entrust with judicial power." On Thursday, he criticized the California Supreme Court for giving gays and lesbians the right to marry, saying he... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018016/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 12:38:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017774/posts The poll is in the middle of the left hand column in the story that it was a tough decision for Ron George. LA Times Online Poll http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017774/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 21:03:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987926/posts The fate of the District's 32-year-old ban on handguns — along with the potential validity of other firearm laws across the country — now rests in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court after justices this morning questioned the constitutionality of the city's stringent gun statutes. "The court asked a lot of very insightful and interesting questions," said Alan Gura, a lawyer who argued before the nine justices in favor of upholding a lower-court decision that overturned the ban. "We feel very good about how the argument went and look forward to this case being resolved." The case — District... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987926/posts#comment Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:17:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949193/posts The future of the death penalty will be in the hands of the Supreme Court tomorrow when the justices hear arguments in a closely watched case that tests the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection. The case, brought by two death-row inmates in Kentucky who are challenging the three-drug cocktail used to kill prisoners, already has led Texas — the nation's leader in executions — and other states to halt executions until the high court decides the Kentucky case. When Oklahoma first authorized lethal injection in 1977 — a year after the Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was constitutional... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949193/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:34:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915170/posts Abstract: "The Irony of Populism: The Republican Shift and the Inevitability of American Aristocracy" analyzes the shift in the role of the Supreme Court following the movement towards a democratic Senate which culminated in the Seventeenth Amendment. The Supreme Court's shift is presented as the inevitable result of the system of mixed government that underlies the constitutional order, which orders American Government into democratic, aristocratic, and monarchical parts. While in the original conception of the constitution the Senate was the aristocratic part, the Senate would become part of the democratic part with the Seventeenth Amendment and prior procedural changes. Into... Social Science Research Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915170/posts#comment Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:12:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911366/posts WITH THE RELEASE of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' memoir, "My Grandfather's Son," all of the old smears directed against him since his confirmation hearings 16 years ago are once again being trotted out. That he's "incompetent." That he's "not qualified." That the only reason he was appointed is because he's black. In other words, that he's a product of affirmative action or, more precisely, an "affirmative action hire." Last week, for instance, liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote: "I believe in affirmative action, but I have to acknowledge there are arguments against it. One of the more cogent... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911366/posts#comment Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:07:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858346/posts WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, reversing course, agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement. The action, announced without comment along with other end-of-term orders, is a setback for the Bush administration. It had argued that a new law strips courts of their jurisdiction to hear detainee cases. In April, the court turned down an identical request, although several justices indicated they could be persuaded otherwise. The move is highly unusual. The court did not indicate what changed the justices' minds about considering the issue. But last week, lawyers for... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858346/posts#comment Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:44:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855522/posts WASHINGTON -- Nearly seven months have passed since the Supreme Court heard arguments about public school integration plans. A decision, it seems, is finally at hand. Whether school districts can use race as a factor in assigning students to schools is the biggest unresolved issue among the eight remaining cases. But as the court enters what is expected to be the final week of its term, several other important topics loom. They include disputes over limits on speech, separation of church and state and executing the mentally ill. The court's final days are being watched perhaps even more closely than... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855522/posts#comment Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:05:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804501/posts Wilkie v Frank Robbins Case: Right to exclude arguedWyoming Rancher refuses to grant BLM a right-of-way across his private land by Cat Urbigkit, Pinedale Online! February 28, 2007 In late January 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court has received its first briefs in federal appeal filed by Bureau of Land Management officials after an appeals court sided with Worland-area rancher Frank Robbins case. It’s been just over a year since the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that BLM employees cannot retaliate against a ranch owner for refusing to grant the BLM a right-of-way across his private land. The court’s ruling... Pinedale Online! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804501/posts#comment Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:36:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720164/posts Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday defended some of his Supreme Court opinions, arguing that nothing in the Constitution supports abortion rights and the use of race in school admissions. Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the high court, sparred in a one-hour televised debate with American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen. He said unelected judges have no place deciding politically charged questions when the Constitution is silent on those issues. Arguing that liberal judges in the past improperly established new political rights such as abortion, Scalia warned, "Someday, you're going to get a very conservative Supreme Court and regret... breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720164/posts#comment Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:33:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658013/posts Since the 1970s, a coalition of international human rights types and romantic supporters of Third World insurgencies has argued that guerillas ought to be covered by the Geneva Conventions even if they themselves are not bound by it. But every US administration since Jimmy Carter's has rejected this point of view. If I read Hamdan aright, the US Supreme Court has just accepted it, or sort of accepted it. National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658013/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:45:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633190/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court has tipped the balance in patent disputes ever so slightly toward the users of patented technology and away from inventors, owners of intellectual property and the hated "patent trolls"--companies that make money by suing for infringement of patents they own but don't use. In a victory for eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people), the justices ruled unanimously that federal courts must weigh several factors before barring a patent infringer from using a contested technology or business method.The online auction house had petitioned the Supreme Court to review the practice of automatically issuing... Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633190/posts#comment Tue, 16 May 2006 17:51:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595698/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor used a speech at Georgetown University to attack pro-life lawmakers who sided with Terri Schiavo's parents in their efforts to prevent their daughter's euthanasia death. She claimed a Congressional effort to have federal courts review the case was a first step towards a dictatorship. O'Connor, who backs abortion, announced her retirement last year and was recently replaced by federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito, who pro-life advocates hope will be more open to upholding laws that protect the right to life. "We must be ever-vigilant against those who would... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595698/posts#comment Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:30:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574123/posts It ought to be a major intellectual event in constitutional law when a Justice of the Supreme Court comes forward publicly to explain his theory of judging. Explanation is needed, for by now nobody familiar with the work of the Court believes it confines its rulings to the principles of the historic Constitution. There have always been instances when the Court voted its sympathies rather than anything resembling the Constitution, but over the last half century the divergence between the document and the decisions has sharply increased. Indeed, the criticism that the Court routinely departs from the Constitution’s principles, as... The New Criterion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574123/posts#comment Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:43:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564459/posts WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito won commitments from a majority of senators Tuesday, assuring his eventual confirmation and making a rightward tilt of the court likely. On the same day Alito won a 10-8 party-line approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee, five Republicans announced that they would vote for his confirmation in the full Senate, pushing him over 50 votes in the 100-member chamber. Fifty Senate Republicans, plus one Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, have publicly committed to vote for Alito through their representatives, interviews with The Associated Press or news releases. No Republicans have opposed him and... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564459/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jan 2006 05:59:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549715/posts By ADAM LIPTAK Published: December 31, 2005 Justice Antonin Scalia's wit is widely admired, and now it has been quantified. He is, a new study concludes, 19 times as funny as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Transcripts of oral arguments at the United States Supreme Court have long featured the notation "[laughter]" after a successful quip from a justice or lawyer. But until October 2004, justices were not identified by name, making it impossible to construct a reliable index of judicial wit. That has now changed, and Jay D. Wexler, a law professor at Boston University, was quick to exploit the new... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549715/posts#comment Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:15:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520751/posts (Note: The following is text of Rove's speech before the Federalist Society on November 10.) For some, it is the Bavarian Illuminati. For others, the Knights Templar. And in recent years, it has been the Trilateralists … the Bilderbergers … or the NeoCons. But for Senators Kennedy, Durbin, Schumer, and Leahy, the most successful conspiracy in the history of mankind is one of the most visible and open, as shown by your willingness to put yourselves on display. Who would have thought powerful members of the World's Most Exclusive Club would be so threatened by a movement of confident, principle-driven,... REAL CLEAR POLITICS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520751/posts#comment Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:22:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516675/posts BOSTON — Case study one: a pregnant woman wants an abortion. Her husband doesn't. Should he have a say? Case study two: a woman wants to become pregnant with frozen embryos. Her ex-husband opposes the decision. Should he have a say? The answer, legally, is no in the abortion case, and in the case of frozen embryos, almost always yes. It might seem paradoxical, but it is emblematic of the way technology is changing the landscape of human reproduction. And it is the kind of paradox that could get more attention with the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.... NY Times Week in Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516675/posts#comment Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:19:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512488/posts WASHINGTON — Samuel A. Alito has been a strong conservative jurist on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a court with a reputation for being among the nation's most liberal. Dubbed "Scalito" or "Scalia-lite," a play not only on his name but his opinions, Alito, 55, brings a hefty legal resume that belies his age. He has served on the federal appeals court for 15 years since President George H.W. Bush nominated him in 1990. Before that Alito was U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1987 to 1990, where his first assistant was a lawyer... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512488/posts#comment Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512373/posts President Bush appears poised to announce a new Supreme Court nomination today, moving quickly after a weekend of consultations to put forward a replacement for the ill-fated choice of Harriet Miers in hopes of recapturing political momentum, according to Republicans close to the White House. Judging by the names the White House floated by political allies in recent days, Bush seems ready to pick a candidate with a long track record of conservative jurisprudence -- one who would mollify the Republican base, whose opposition to Miers's nomination helped scuttle her chances. Several GOP strategists said the most likely choice seemed... WASHINGTONPOST.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512373/posts#comment Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:53:12 GMT