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Opinion: Judicial Activism Has a New Face

(July 2) -- If you want to make a progressive tremble, yell "judicial activist" and laugh as they cower under their desk in fear. At least, that's been the pattern for the past two decades of judicial confirmation hearings. So when Elena Kagan took her seat at the beginning of her confirmation hearing, her opponents were...

Opinion: Should Companies Be Free to Hide Their Misconduct?

(June 30) -- Imagine if the public didn't know about all the corporate wrongdoing leading to BP's oil spill or Goldman Sachs' role in the financial collapse. Without the ensuing public outrage, would the government have responded the same way? Under a recent court ruling, such information may no longer be public. In an...

Justice Hillary Clinton? The Top Cases for and Against

(April 12) -- Even in a town full of heady resumes, Hillary Rodham Clinton's stands out. The secretary of state is, of course, a former presidential candidate, U.S. senator and first lady. Now she may be in the running for yet another impressive seat: U.S. Supreme Court justice. At least if Sen. Orrin Hatch is to be...

Next Supreme Court Choice Looms Large

(April 9) -- We know what Barack Obama will be doing this summer. The president's choice of a successor to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens could be one of the biggest and most politically resonating stories out of Washington this spring. The confirmation process is likely to dominate headlines until and possibly...

Court Fight Looms With Talk of Stevens' Departure

(March 17) -- President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts have been sniping at each other like in-laws with an ax to grind. And now they're potentially on the verge of a major family occasion fraught with tension. Justice John Paul Stevens turns 90 next month and is expected to announce soon whether he will...

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Supreme Court Decides On Deportation, Takes Up Wiretapping

With five weeks remaining in its term, the Supreme Court on Monday morning chipped away at its 20-plus cases yet to be decided by issuing a flurry of opinions concerning deportation, translation and in vitro fertilization.

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Women Supreme Court Justices Celebrate 30 Years Since Court's First Female

The only four women to serve as Supreme Court justices gathered Wednesday night to celebrate Sandra Day O'Connor's pathbreaking arrival on the bench three decades ago.

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05/21/12 Supreme Court Decides On Deportation, Takes Up... Source: The Huffington Post With five weeks remaining in its term, the Supreme Court on Monday morning chipped away at its 20-plus cases yet to be decided by issuing a flurry of opinions concerning deportation, translation and in vitro fertilization.
05/14/12 Citizens United: The Untold Story Source: Law Blog - The Wall Street Journal Jeffrey Toobin, the New Yorker's Supreme Court chronicler, takes on Citizens United v.
05/09/12 Documenting detainees' legal woes Source: scotusblog In January 2011, the Supreme Court chose to pass up the first of a stack of then-new challenges by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to their detention.
04/26/12 Chelsea Rudman: Breitbart "Exclusive": Kagan's Notes... Source: County Fair Last month, the Breitbart team tried -- and failed -- to gin up outrage over a 1991 video showing then-law student Barack Obama embracing the late Harvard professor Derrick Bell. Breitbart editor-in-chief Joel Pollak went to great pains to cast Bell and the critical race theory that he espoused as radical, even pushing his spin in an appearance on CNN (where host Soledad O'Brien took apart his argument).
04/18/12 Kagan: My Job Is Little Different from When I Was the... Source: Patterico`s Pontifications This is a video clip from an interview with Elena Kagan, with an interesting quote that reveals something about her partisan mindset on the court.