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Law and Politics: Where is the Supreme Court?(8)
Without question, this term of the Supreme Court has been a roller-coaster. This term, the Supreme Court overturned the Federal sentencing guidelines, empowered 401(k) holders to sue their employers for mismanagement of their retirement funds, ruled that lethal injection was not cruel and unusual punishment, required voters to present ID before voting, struck down a [...]
Death is an appropriate sentence for the rape of a child…
The Supreme Court declared today in Louisiana v. Kennedy that execution is an excessive punishment for child rape, despite the “years of long anguish” for victims. Truly amazing - child rape does not warrant the death penalty.
The court’s 5-4 decision struck down a Louisiana law that allows capital punishment for people convicted of raping children [...]
Supreme Court Grants Habeas Corpus to Detainees at GTMO
By a 5 to 4 vote that brought strongly worded and remorseful dissents from the Court’s conservative justices, the majority held that an alternative procedure designed by the Administration and Congress was inadequate to insure that the detainees “receive their day in court”. While all Supreme Court cases are necessarily historic - as they become [...]
Detainees and Guns - the two “shoes” to fall that remain this term…
Washington, D.C. (Rightcommentary.com): As the 2007-2008 term winds down, two cases that I’m waiting for are likely to be released within the next three weeks. Well actually its three cases, but the first two cases deal with the same issue - detainee habeas “rights”. The third case, of course, is the “gun rights” case for [...]
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- AP: Appeals Panel Again Strikes Down Va. Abortion Ban
- WP: Court Rules That Paper Money Discriminates Against the Blind
- SCOTUSBlog.com: Al-Marri’s new challenge to detention
- Police: ‘D.C. Madam’ committed suicide
- Justice Scalia on 60 Minutes - WOW!
- SCOTUS to hear Death Penalty Case involving Child Rapist
- US Enemy Combatant Detention system under fire…
- A right to Bear Arms?
