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8 Oct, 2007 7:42 pm
... amusing video with cameos from David Souter, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, the ever-lovely Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Arlen Specter, Lindsey Graham,
... master. Micahel Chertoff's job is really taking a toll on his body. Samuel Alito's haircut is a little sketchy, but his wife speaks very ... figures are, despite the way the
people (myself included) portray them as ideological ironclads. Clarence Thomas, like everyone else, has an opinion on the Appalachian State
upset over ...
21 Mar, 2008 7:47 pm
... and CBSNews.com. If you really want to take the measure of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, don't bother reading his self-serving,
cry-for-help book. ... a black man named Allen Snyder. By a margin of 7-2, with conservative Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., writing the majority opinion, the Court Wednesday
overturned Snyder's death ... two-faced prosecutor and the quick-draw trial judge. One of these Justices was Clarence Thomas, just the second
black person to sit on Court. Despite the obvious scheme ...
22 Oct, 2007 11:40 am
... most neutral, followed by David Souter. Agree? ADDED: This is making me think of that radio show I did with Sunstein the day Samuel Alito was nominated to the Supreme Court:
Cass Sunstein came ready with statistics based on reading 41 Alito dissents and ... So, in the spirit of the Emmy's, I suggest the following: The Consistent Application of Principles
Award goes to Justice Clarence Thomas. The What-Side-of-Bed-Did-I-Get-Out-of-Today Award goes to Justice Anthony Kennedy. The Check Executive
Power ...
24 Nov 7:42 am
... Lee University. The roots of the conservative re-examination of crime policy might also be found in the jurisprudence of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. The two justices, joined by liberal colleagues, have said the original meaning of the Constitution required them to rule against the ... , of
course. Two notable exceptions to the trend, said Timothy Lynch, director of the Cato Institute's criminal justice project, are Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice
Samuel A. Alito Jr.
23 Nov 3:35 pm
... and very liberal, to adopt a strategy employed successfully by conservatives (e.g., John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Clarence
Thomas). Might this be viewed as a subtle effort by Judge Lynch, a 58-year-old white male not known for being a radical-left judge, to advance his own Supreme Court ... Scalia [New York
Times] Clerkship Applications Up 66 Percent From Last Year [Blackbook Legal Blog] Supreme Court - United States - Clarence Thomas - Law -
United States Supreme Court
13 Nov, 2006 11:53 am
... was mistaken...to find a 'reasonable probability' that the jury did not consider respondent's future potential," Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts
and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas joined Kennedy's opinion. In his dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said
the majority opinion reaches a "strange conclusion" based upon speculation. "I simply cannot believe that the ...
1 Jul, 2007 5:22 am
... . Ordering a federal trial judge to review the convict's delusions, the court's majority hinted, but stopped short of saying, that inmates need to rationally understand why they're
being executed. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissent that was joined by the court's most conservative members, including its newest
additions, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.
3 Feb 10:45 am
... the justices are done hiring their October Term 2009 law clerks, except for Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice David Souter. Justice
Souter traditionally hires last, so it's ... . Chris Fonzone (Harvard 2007 / Wilkinson) 4. Jennifer Nou (Yale 2008 / Posner) Justice Samuel Alito 1. Amit Agarwal (Georgetown /
Kavanaugh) 2. K. Winn Allen (UVA / ... Natalie Ram (Yale 2008 / Calabresi) 4. David Zionts (Harvard 2008 / Garland) Justice Samuel Alito 1. ? 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor (retired): 1 ...
22 Nov 4:01 pm
... Court's oral argument offered little to bolster Nifong's Craven view. Only two justices, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, seemed indifferent to designing a solution that might
hold the Iowa prosecutors accountable for their actions; the duo has a ... regarding virtually all criminal justice issues, so their pro-prosecutors position in the oral argument came
as little surprise. As usual, Clarence Thomas didn't ask any questions in the session; the other six justices appeared to have an open mind
about ...
24 Nov 6:04 am
... roots of the conservative re-examination of crime policy might also be found in the jurisprudence of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence
Thomas. The two justices, joined by liberal colleagues, have said the original meaning of the Constitution required them to ... of the Cato Institute's criminal justice project, are
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. "Roberts and Alito are coming down consistently on the side of the government in these criminal justice cases,"
Mr. ...
15 Apr 10:14 am
... / Brown (D.C. Cir.)) Justice David H. Souter 1. ? 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? Justice Clarence Thomas 1. Tyler R. Green (U. Utah 2005 / McConnell /
Cassell (D. Utah)) 2. ... .)) 3. Chris Fonzone (Harvard 2007 / Wilkinson) 4. Jennifer Nou (Yale 2008 / Posner) Justice Samuel Alito 1. Amit Agarwal (Georgetown / Kavanaugh) 2. K.
Winn Allen (UVA / Sutton) ... 3. Natalie Ram (Yale 2008 / Calabresi) 4. David Zionts (Harvard 2008 / Garland) Justice Samuel Alito 1. ? 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
(retired): 1. ? ...
3 Mar, 2008 11:34 am
... Scalia and Clarence Thomas. For instance, the candidate observed that he had "strongly supported John Roberts and Samuel Alito for
the Supreme Court," who had demonstrated fidelity to the Constitution, and "that is why I would seek men and women like them as ... my judicial philosophy (e.g., Chief Justice John
Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Samuel Alito), but who also have established themselves within the
conservative legal community as faithful adherents of ...
12 Nov 2:00 am
... series of court cases in Alabama. The Communist Party in America takes special interest in the case and hires Samuel Leibowitz, one of the most successful criminal defense
lawyers in the US, to represent the defendants. Despite poor evidence and one ... the throat of a prison guard, eventually escapes from prison in 1948. According to the documentary, of
all the defendants, only Clarence Norris goes on to 'make a life for himself'. He is finally pardoned by Alabama Governor George Wallace in
1976, ...
29 Jun, 2007 9:29 am
... Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, had all failed to assess those claims properly. In a stinging dissent, Justice Clarence
Thomas called the ruling "a half-baked holding that leaves the details of the insanity standard for the district court to work out." He was joined in the minority by Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel A. Alito Jr. Gregory W. Wiercioch, a staff lawyer for the Texas Defender Service who argued Mr. Panetti's appeal before the
...
10 Dec, 2007 7:04 am
... at this link. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered the majority opinion, from which Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito,
Jr. dissented. The second sentencing-related decision announced today came in the case of Gall v. United States, No. 06-7949. You can access the ... case at this link. Justice John Paul
Stevens delivered the majority opinion, from which Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito, Jr. dissented. Today's third and final
opinion in an argued ...
20 Mar, 2008 8:55 am
... to pick an all-white jury for a black defendant's murder trial, on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man who has been on death row for 12 years. The vote was 7 to 2, with
Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia dissenting. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote the opinion. It was the second time since he
joined the court more than two years ago that Justice Alito voted for the defendant in a criminal case in which ...
13 Jun, 2008 9:53 am
... invoke the fundamental procedural protections of habeas corpus. The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times." Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr., Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas were the dissenters. Click on the following link to
access the full opinion. If you cannot click on the link, copy and paste it into your browser. [www.supremecourtus.gov] ...
22 Oct, 2008 9:06 am
... Republican appointments to the Supreme Court. I said, "I didn't know he disliked John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia." I guess he also doesn't like the fact that it was Republicans that made him who he is. This is betrayal. You know, it's
possible to like and respect John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and still think the next 2
appointments should be made by a Democrat. ...
2 Feb 8:18 am
... federal appeals court there, four of the five most conservative justices to serve on the court since 1937, of a total of 43, are on the court right now: Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr. and Justices Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. The fifth was Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, whom Chief
Justice Roberts replaced in 2005. The study took into account the votes in divided cases on ideologically charged issues like criminal procedure ...
29 Sep 9:06 am
... Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who voted to hear 63 cases in 1993. The phenomenon seemed to cut across ideological lines. Justice Clarence Thomas
voted to hear 72 cases per term, down from Justice Thurgood Marshall's 125. Justice David H. ... independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation. (Seven justices are in the pool
now. The exceptions are Justices John Paul Stevens and Samuel A. Alito Jr.) "The prevailing spirit among the 25-year-old legal savants, whose life experience is necessarily
limited in ...
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