In talking about the role of the federal prosecutor or the United States Attorney, Supreme Court Justice Sutherland wrote: “The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. [read post]

The "underappreciated" Justices that will be discussed (in rough chronological order) include Samuel Chase, James Iredell, William Johnson, Bushrod Washington, David Davis, John McLean, David Brewer, Rufus Peckham, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, and Sherman Minton. [read post]

How shall we classify the Court's "Four Horsemen" of the early twentieth century (Justices James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter, and Pierce Butler), who voted to strike down maximum-hour and minimum-wage laws? [read post]

She's also asking the judge to make each party pay their own attorney's fees....Spears has hired powerhouse celebrity divorce lawyer Laura Wasser, who has repped a number of celebs, including Angelina Jolie, Nick Lachey and Kiefer Sutherland. [read post]