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Dissenting Justice: Westboro Ruling Goes Too Far

Where should the nation draw the line on free speech? For Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the defense of First Amendment rights expressed by today's majority ruling in the Westboro Baptist Church case goes too far. The 8-1 decision found that the fringe church's hate-filled picketing at the funeral of a Marine...

Westboro Court Decision Pits Free Speech Against Common Decency

WASHINGTON -- Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church may have won their case in the U.S. Supreme Court today, but not even the most ardent advocates of free speech are rejoicing. "On a personal level, I can't imagine a single person in this country who doesn't feel the pain of this father" whose Marine son's funeral...

Supreme Court Sides With Westboro Baptist Church; Twitter Reluctantly Agrees

Who ever said that free speech would be easy? Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, a small group, made up mostly of members of the Phelps family, that stages protests at military funerals (and other places). The case, Snyder v. Phelps, was filed by the father of a...

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Military Funeral Protesters

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The decision upheld an appeals...

Bachmann Caucus to Start Offering Classes

WASHINGTON (Nov. 10) -- Is Glenn Beck University opening a satellite campus on Capitol Hill? If tea party darling Michele Bachmann gets her way, conservative broadcaster Sean Hannity, Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano and David Barton, a Christian evangelist who has said church-state separation is "a myth," will make up...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

Nan Aron: Hey, Liberals, Stop Being So Mean to John Roberts!

Those mean liberals are picking on him again.

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WATCH: John Roberts Is Your Mom

There are certain mannerisms that all moms have no matter what.

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06/01/12 Publishing News: HMTL5 may be winning the war against... Source: Original Signal A couple weeks ago, MIT Technology Review's editor in chief and publisher Jason Pontin wrote a piece about killing their app and optimizing their website for all devices with HTML5.
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.
05/31/12 It's not healthy to make a chief justice 'worry' Source: The Japan Times In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that."
05/31/12 Taking exception: The most important issue this... Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN Kathleen Parker's column and skewed presentation ("The public trial of Justice Roberts," May 24) would seem to pit the chief justice of the Supreme Court against all the forces of the Obama administration, but actually reinforces the contention of many voters about the importance of this year's election.
05/31/12 Know Your Supreme Court Source: ACS Blog Greenhouse, a member of the American Constitution Society's Board of Directors, will be signing copies of her new book at the 2012 ACS National Convention.

Background on john roberts

John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States. He has served since 2005, having been nominated by President George W.

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