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21 Aug 2009, 8:50 am
No weapon was ever found, no physical evidence linked Davis to the killing, seven of the nine witnesses against Davis have recanted and several witnesses have fingered instead the prosecution's chief witness.The push for a new trial for Davis has won the backing of a long list of impressive supporters, including former President Jimmy Carter, Pope Benedict, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Republican congressman Bob Barr, himself once a federal prosecutor, and William Sessions, former FBI… [read post]
20 Aug 2009, 11:01 pm
” Yet these words appeared in a dissenting opinion issued by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on Monday. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 7:51 pm
Although Sotmayor's analysis of this issue was tentative and layered, critics assailed her for suggesting that a "Wise Latina" would analyze issues better than other judges.After less than one week on the bench, I definitely prefer the Wise Latina to Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Thomas, who are clearly vying for positions on the imaginary "Death Panels" that the Obama administration is supposedly creating. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 11:45 am
In a shocking dissent, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dismissed the idea that the courts have a duty to ensure that they are not putting an innocent man to death. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 5:45 am
" Yet these words appeared in a dissenting opinion issued by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on Monday. [read post]
18 Aug 2009, 10:00 pm
Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has warned against the use of humour, but mainly as a matter of balancing the risks versus the potential for reward. [read post]
18 Aug 2009, 12:32 pm
The decision set off a sharp debate between Justices John Paul Stevens and Antonin Scalia about Supreme Court procedure, the reach of a federal law meant to limit death row appeals and the proper treatment of claims of innocence. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 12:51 pm
Today Justice Antonin Scalia implied that, under the United States Constitution, an innocent person can be killed by the state. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 9:45 am
"Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 8:53 am
"Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, issued a dissent, saying the federal judge assigned to hear the case will not be able to grant Davis relief. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 2:07 am
"Davis' "claim is a sure loser," Scalia said. [read post]
9 Aug 2009, 9:31 pm
.)''Women are picking up some of the dangerously bad habits of men,'' said Chuck Hurley, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.In New York's Westchester County, where Diane Schuler's crash killed her and seven other people last month, the number of women arrested for drunken driving is up 2 percent this year, and officers said they are noticing more women with children in the back seat.Nearly 250 youngsters were killed in alcohol-related crashes in the U.S. in 2007, and… [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 8:44 am
Kennedy, February 03, 1988, 97-0 Justice Antonin Scalia, September 17, 1986, 98-0 Justice John Paul Stevens, December 17, 1975, 98-0 [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 3:54 am
And it’s just damned weird when Antonin Scalia, who penned his own diatribe against the exclusionary rule just a few years back in Hudson v. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 12:57 pm
Analysis As Justice Antonin Scalia was preparing the Supreme Court’s opinion last year declaring a personal constitutional right to have a gun for self-defense, he may have needed to put in a cautionary word to hold his five-Justice majority — an indication to make the decision seem somewhat less sweeping. [read post]
22 Jul 2009, 5:15 am
Supreme Court has ruled that states can enforce their consumer protection and fair-lending laws against national banks.Writing the 5-4 majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia said the federal National Bank Act does not prevent ordinary enforcement of state law.His ruling affirms in part and reverses in part an appellate decision in favor of the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in a lawsuit concerning former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's… [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 3:02 am
Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas -- did it now and again. [read post]
19 Jul 2009, 2:07 pm
" Whatever the actual origins of this theory, the conventional story identifies Antonin Scalia as having a key role. [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 1:42 pm
Post-Stanford, he clerked for Seventh Circuit super-genius Richard Posner, after which he ascended to a clerkship with Justice Antonin Scalia. [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 1:11 pm
Lastborn John Paul Stevens The Born to Rebel measure nails Alito, Scalia, and Thomas as conservatives; Kennedy as a moderate; and Stevens as a liberal. [read post]
