On AlterNet: supreme court
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "supreme court"
Beth Werlin, Immigration Impact. November 17, 2009.
The case may hinge on a technical matter, but the case highlights an important legal principle.
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 2, 2009.
Because corporations are people too.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. October 12, 2009.
Would a Human Sacrifice TV Channel be protected by the First Amendment? Answers to this and other key questions will be answered.
Rick DeJesús-Rueff, Christian Science Monitor. October 7, 2009.
Weighing and balancing perspectives with empathy is a better recipe for justice than "blindness," which can cause us to miss the glaring injustices of our legal system.
Think ProgressOctober 6, 2009.
The conservative majority has immediately begun stripping women's reproductive freedom, entrenching public school segregation, and undermining equal work pay.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. October 1, 2009.
In its first review of the PATRIOT Act, the Court will rule on an anti-terror law outlawing any aid to groups on the State Department's list of terrorist groups.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. September 24, 2009.
53-year-old Romell Broom wept and tried to help his executioners find a vein, only to leave the death chamber alive. This isn't "cruel and unusual punishment"?
Lucile Malandain, Agence France Presse. September 8, 2009.
Opponents of the death penalty hope the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas, will be a turning point towards abolition.
Michael Winship, Bill Moyers Journal. September 5, 2009.
A nasty little piece of propaganda could unleash a new torrent of cash flooding into campaigns from big business, unions and other special interests.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. August 18, 2009.
Apparently, it's Constitutional to execute a prisoner known to be innocent.
Agence France Presse August 6, 2009.
By an easy 68-31 margin, lawmakers lifted the 55-year-old appeals court judge to the bench that serves as the final arbiter of the U.S. Constitution.
Agence France Presse August 5, 2009.
Sotomayor is expected to win Senate confirmation as early as Thursday as the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Ian Millhiser, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 28, 2009.
Only one Republican on the Judiciary Committee could bring himself to vote for President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
BarbinMD, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. July 23, 2009.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has announced he will vote to approve Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
Jill Filipovic, RH Reality Check AlterNet: PEEK. July 17, 2009.
The Supreme Court nominee remained composed, in spite of Republicans trying to top each other in condescension.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 17, 2009.
In this week's hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina played to conservative whites -- and his state’s burgeoning Latino population.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 16, 2009.
At the Sotomayor hearings, one heckler looked very familiar. He's the same guy who disrupted Obama's Notre Dame speech.
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's Blog. July 16, 2009.
There is no more a Puerto Rican race than there is an American one.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. July 15, 2009.
A list of the most ridiculous questions, jabs and rants by GOP lawmakers and other conservatives.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. July 14, 2009.
If I didn't know better, I might think Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has a preoccupation with issues related to race and ethnicity.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 14, 2009.
Sotomayor will be confirmed. But the drama stirred up by Republicans reveals some interesting things about race in the age of Obama.
Jeffrey Deskovic, AlterNet. July 10, 2009.
Sotomayor put procedure over innocence as a federal judge.
Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. June 30, 2009.
Democrats have a 60-seat majority.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. June 29, 2009.
The Right has long anticipated this ruling so as to spin it as proof of Sotomayor's incompetence, hatred of white people, etc.
Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive AlterNet: PEEK. June 27, 2009.
After 18 years of sleepwalking through proceedings, Thomas has found his niche: the most conservative judge in the court.
