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15 Feb 2016, 12:05 pm
I’m sure people will point to statistics that demonstrate that, on the vast majority of issues, the Supreme Court is not split into 4-4 liberal/conservative camps, with Justice Kennedy being the swing vote. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 6:19 am
Justice should be built into the system.Providing fair compensation to lawyers for the quality and quantity of workthey perform amounts to improved justice not only for them but also fortheir clients.The General Assembly probably has not received sufficient credit for thisimprovement.Granted, it took years of advocacy efforts before the Assembly began to moveon the issue.But granting more money for indigent defense was not necessarily apolitically popular move, especially … [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 4:33 am
Of course, at this point, they've also heard fewer cases than last year. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 2:23 am
I'd pointed yesterday to a list of reform bills supported by the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, and was reminded in the comments that I should be sure to point out the online bill lists of items supported and opposed by other criminal-justice related organizations:Texas District and County Attorneys Association (TDCAA): See their legislative page and their list of key bills to watch.Texas Municipal Police Association(TMPA): See their Feb. 19 bill tracking… [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 12:45 am
Thousands of offenses against the peace have created a new class of criminal fugitive from justice. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 8:57 am
That point didn’t go down well with at least some of the Justices. [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 6:19 am
But we should also remember that justice is not inevi-table. [read post]
22 Jan 2024, 6:16 am
“The Architect of Our Divided Supreme Court: A hundred years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful; His interventions marked a turning point whose effects are still being felt. [read post]
12 May 2010, 11:03 am
He emphasized his point by using the example of a Confederate prison in which 13,000 Union soldiers died from malnutrition and disease during the Civil War: However, whether the constitutional standard has been violated should turn on the character of the punishment, rather than the motivation of the individual who inflicted it. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 1:01 pm
The judge issued a pointed statement about the impact of his findings: "The Court takes hope that acknowledgment of the ugly truth of race discrimination revealed by Defendants' evidence is the first step in creating a system of justice that is free from the pernicious influence of race, a system that truly lives up to our ideal of equal justice under the law." [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 12:26 pm
He provides interesting perspectives on the criminal justice system both from the point of view of a federal prosecutor and as an African-American. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 4:00 am
I make these points (none of which are new) as context for the balance of this column which suggests that there may other market failures present in the legal services market that impair access to justice. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 11:48 am
As in Briggs’ case, an appeals court reversed Collins’ conviction, pointing to a 2018 decision by the same court. [read post]
4 May 2010, 3:00 pm
Pointed in his questioning, he seeks to understand the facts in every case. [read post]
16 May 2023, 8:16 am
” The post Meet the wealthy next-gen donors practising social justice philanthropy appeared first on The Philanthropist Journal. [read post]
12 May 2008, 5:01 pm
Yet Justice Thomas appears to attach very little weight to precedent (a point Justice Scalia often makes in explaining the differences between their respective judicial philosophies). [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 2:27 pm
Olson dissent — a point with which the majority did not disagree. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 1:57 pm
He pointed to his nine years as a Mississippi justice, during which he voted to affirm convictions and the death penalty in at least a dozen capital punishment cases. [read post]
24 Apr 2013, 7:20 am
At this stage the point is to get the discussion started, not perfected and then to move expeditiously from talk to action. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 8:25 am
That is the core point of Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition by David Garland, which Justice Stevens writes about in his essay. [read post]
