Look what SCOTUS is up to...
atlargely.com 1/11/2009 — This is very interesting indeed: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court served notice Friday that it may make a far-reaching change in civil rights law in 2009 and knock down a pair of long-standing rules that give special protection to minorities in the ...

Scotus Sanity
eschatonblog.com 1/22/2009 — This one's finally dead. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government lost its final attempt Wednesday to revive a federal law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. The Supreme Court said it won't ...

And Optimistic SCOTUS Thought
corner.nationalreview.com 5/1/2009 — The first person I talked to about the Souter news last night (shockingly, though, all of Santa Monica didn't seem to be buzzing with their Blackberrys about it) asked: "Has Souter been good on anything?" Worst things could happen ...

SCOTUS politics: 'Within days'?
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 5/15/2009 — The Washington Post : “President Obama told senators at a White House meeting yesterday that he would review names of potential Supreme Court nominees over the weekend, leading participants to believe an announcement could come within days, ...

911 families says President Obama wrong on SCOTUS decision.
mudvillegazette.com 2/10/2009 — And admitted Gitmo is ‘pristine, professional operation’? No way. Friday, Debra Burlingame was among the 40 family members of the 2,975 murdered on September 11 and the 17 sailors murdered aboard the USS Cole who met with President Obama. During the meeting, President Obama was wrong on ...

SCOTUS - Detainees Have Habeas Rights
newshoggers.com 1/22/2009 — It was close, but today the Supreme Court decided that America should observe the rule of law by applying Habeas Corpus to detainees at the Gitmo prison complex. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay ...

SCOTUS To Keep Hands Off Gay Marriage Issue?
rhymeswithright.mu.nu 4/13/2009 — I find this bit of analysis to be rather intriguing – and a sign that current justices have learned from the over-reaching of an earlier era. In other contexts, this sort of turmoil might amount to an invitation for the...

Blowback in the SCOTUS Wars
blogs.abcnews.com 5/7/2009 — Supreme Court fights get ugly. Anyone old enough to remember how "Bork" became a verb knows that. The first shot fired against U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor came from New Republic writer Jeffrey Rosen,...

First thoughts: SCOTUS shortlist?
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 5/11/2009 — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** The SCOTUS shortlist? According to a couple of sources in the know, there appears to be a working short list of about six names for President Obama’s Supreme Court pick. The co-frontrunners (in ...

SCOTUS to NYC & DC: You Lose, Again
alphecca.com 3/10/2009 — This looks to be the end for the NYC & DC lawsuits filed against several firearm manufacturers claiming that their legal products create a nuisance for the City. From (ironically) Bloomberg News: The U.S. Supreme Court left intact lower court ...