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The Court after Scalia: We need a new Justice like Scalia to help end the abortion-distortion effect
15 Sep 2016, 8:06 am
Justice Samuel Alito authored a three-member dissent demonstrating the abortion-distortion effect in the bending of normal claim-preclusion, evidence, and severability rules. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 7:53 am
The new Justice will line up with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who are pretty much categorically opposed to such discrimination, and will be in opposition to Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor, who can be counted on to defend politically correct racial preferences more or less categorically. [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 1:25 pm
Representative John Lewis (D-Ga.), an icon of the civil rights movement during the 1960s, called it a dagger in the heart of voting access for minorities. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 5:00 am
For very different but overlapping reasons, Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor disagreed. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 10:18 am
In dissent, Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, protested that “whether petitioner is entitled to relief on this [second-step] ground has nothing to do with Foster,” since Foster addressed only Batson’s third step. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 1:42 pm
(Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas joined the dissent. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 4:35 am
” Barbara Leonard of Courthouse News Services reports that “Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas complained Monday about inmates winning Supreme Court relief on the basis of new precedent about discriminatory jury strikes. [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 4:34 am
” Briefly: In her column for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse suggests that Justice Clarence Thomas “revels in his chosen role as the anti-Thurgood Marshall. [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 8:13 am
Arizona, 15-8366, the Court held that when the state puts a capital defendant’s future dangerousness at issue, a defendant has the right to inform the jury that the only possible sentence besides death is life imprisonment, even if he remains eligible for executive clemency; shockingly, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, dissented from that pro-defendant result. [read post]
25 May 2016, 2:20 am
At Slate, Mark Joseph Stern contends that “something very odd is happening” at the Court: “Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas lost a major constitutional case back in January. [read post]
19 May 2016, 5:30 pm
But this short statement stimulated Justice Thomas (joined by Justice Samuel Alito) to respond that “I would not prejudge that matter” and “Barker may not necessarily translate to the delayed sentencing context. [read post]
16 May 2016, 4:41 pm
Justice Thomas concurred in the judgment. [read post]
16 May 2016, 12:02 pm
In a 6 to 2 opinion authored by Justice Samuel A. [read post]
2 May 2016, 2:33 pm
” Ocasio and other officers plainly agreed to obtain property “from another,” and the body shop owners “agree[d] to help” him commit this crime. [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 1:59 pm
Dissenting, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, insisted Heffernan’s demotion was merely callous and perhaps “misguided or wrong,” but not unconstitutional. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 6:00 am
” In other news related to the vacancy created by Scalia’s death, Tony Mauro reports in The National Law Journal (subscription or registration may be required) that Scalia’s current law clerks have been re-assigned to the chambers of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 7:38 am
A quick recap of the facts Brandon Thomas Betterman pled guilty for his failure to appear for sentencing in a prior criminal matter. [read post]
27 Mar 2016, 2:54 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Globalization has produced a wealth of marvelous work that seeks to theorize the emerging relationships between states, non-state actors (especially multinational corporations), and international organizations. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 12:49 pm
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22 Mar 2016, 12:35 pm
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