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High Court Rules for Texas Inmate Who Wants DNA Testing

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to a death row inmate in Texas who wants to test crime-scene evidence that he says may show he is innocent. The court's narrow, 6-3 ruling means that Hank Skinner, who was about an hour away from execution when the Supreme Court intervened last year, will...

Opinion: Citizens United 1 Year Later -- Unleash the Corruption

Last month it was reported that incoming Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., "paid a personal visit" to Tom Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "to thank him for the chamber's unsolicited support of his candidacy." Apparently the senator did not get the memo that all genuflecting before campaign funders should be...

Kagan's First Vote Not Enough to Stop Execution

(Oct. 27)--Welcome to the U.S. Supreme Court, where decisions are final. Elena Kagan cast her first vote Tuesday night as the newest member of the court. Unfortunately for convicted killer Jeffrey Landrigan, Kagan cast her vote with the minority of justices, who failed to stay Landrigan's execution by lethal injection....

New Supreme Court Set to Start New Term

WASHINGTON (Oct. 4) -- The Supreme Court is starting its new term with a new justice, Elena Kagan, and bad news for hundreds of parties trying to get their cases heard at the nation's highest court. The justices are expected to start work Monday by denying many of the nearly 2,000 appeals that piled up in recent months....

Prop. 8 Ruling Puts Obama, Kagan in Spotlight

WASHINGTON (Aug. 5) -- A federal judge's decision overturning California's voter-approved ban on gay marriage may take years to get to the U.S. Supreme Court. But the political fallout has already begun. Judge Vaughn Walker's 136-page ruling eviscerating Proposition 8 as unconstitutional brought roaring back to life a...

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Homeland Security Infiltrates Senior Citizen Protest

Every year on or near September 11, I participate with other members of the Los Angeles County Bar Association in a high school event called "Dialogues of Freedom."

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06/01/12 So Much For Politics: More Than Half Of Supreme Court... Source: Forbes More than half of the Supreme Court decisions in the most recent term have been unanimous, further undermining the theory the nation's highest court is hopelessly split between a conservative majority and an embattled liberal minority.
06/01/12 Federal appeals court rules against Defense of... Source: Deseret News - Salt Lake City UT A unanimous three-member Federal appeals court panel ruled against one part of the Defense of Marriage Act on Thursday, holding that it unconstitutionally created separate classes of marriage and intruded into state rights in defining marriage.
05/31/12 Appeals Court Turns Back Marriage Act as Unfair to Gays Source: The New York Times - New York NY The decision, from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Boston, will have no immediate effect because the court stayed its ruling in anticipation of an appeal to the Supreme Court.
05/30/12 Former NYT Editor Cheers Gay Marriage at Supreme... Source: NewsBusters.org Keller has previously argued for gay marriage while hinting that those who disagree are motivated sheerly by bigotry.
05/30/12 Overturning or Modifying 'Grutter v. Bollinger'? Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education In February, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear a challenge to the use of racial preferences at the University of Texas, supporters of affirmative action understood the move to be a bad sign.

Background on anthony kennedy

Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, having been appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. Since the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy has often been the "swing vote" on many of the Court's 5–4 decisions.

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