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scotusblog.com - 3/4/2009
Analysis: In search of a limiting principle
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Analysis Tugged between a sense that a constitutional ruling on judges’ duty to take themselves out of cases if bias is suspected should provide very clear guidance, and a sense that it might be written only to apply in the most extreme factual scenarios, the Supreme Court set itself a ...
scotusblog.com - 3/9/2009
Court rules against minority districts
— scotusblog.com — Dividing 5-4, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that federal voting rights law does not require the... creation of a new legislative district when that would include a racial minority group that has less than 50 percent of the population, as a remedy ... (more) Court rules against minority districts

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scotusblog.com - 3/10/2009
Analysis: Is race forever to be present in politics?
— scotusblog.com — Analysis Two starkly differing views of the contemporary role of race in American politics emerged in full... view in the Supreme Court’s wide-ranging new ruling on federal voting rights law. Both views start with the same premise, but end up ... (more) Analysis: Is race forever to be present in politics?

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Justices Question Money-Court Nexus
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society — ... “In search of a limiting principle,” SCOTUSBlog’s Lyle Denniston says, the court was “[t]ugged between a sense that a constitutional ruling on judge’s duty to take themselves out of cases if bias is suspected should provide very clear guidance, and a sense that it might be written only to apply in the most extreme factual scenarios.” ...

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