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High Court Rules for Texas Inmate Who Wants DNA Testing
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- 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 not be put to death soon while his legal case continues. Michael Graczyk, AP Hank Skinner, here in December 2009, is on death row in Texas for triple slaying in on New Year's Even 1993. But the decision will not necessarily result in Skinner winning the right to ...
Opinion: Citizens United 1 Year Later -- Unleash the Corruption
By not in system - AOL NewsLast 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 conducted behind closed doors. Johnson's visit comes courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court decision one year ago today in Citizens United v. FEC, which opened the floodgates by allowing for the first time the vast reservoirs of corporate and union treasury funds to swamp ...
Kagan's First Vote Not Enough to Stop Execution
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(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. The 5-4 ruling -- which was not signed, but received backing from Justices John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito -- overturned decisions by a Phoenix judge and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to stay ...
New Supreme Court Set to Start New Term
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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. The court also is hearing argument in a bankruptcy dispute and an appeal by criminal defendants seeking shorter prison terms. Supreme Court of the United States Elena Kagan, here with President Barack Obama, begins her first term on the Supreme Court on Monday. During the ...
Prop. 8 Ruling Puts Obama, Kagan in Spotlight
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (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 divisive social issue that a few years ago dominated political discourse but had recently taken a back to seat to economic anxiety. And its timing, on the eve of Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, is a reminder that the issue won't be settled until nine ...
Supreme Court Narrows Requirements for Miranda Rights Warning
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyVoting along ideological lines, a divided Supreme Court Monday slightly narrowed the scope of the so-called Miranda warning, ruling in a 5-4 case out of that a suspect must affirmatively and unambiguously invoke his right to remain silent in order to preclude prosecutors from later using any statements he may make at the time. "There is good reason to require an accused who wants to invoke his or her right to remain silent to do so unambiguously," Justice Anthony Kennedy declared in what probably constitutes the understatement of the day. The case came about as a result of the questioning of ...
Speculation Begins to Build About an Obama Court
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Feb. 5) – With so much else going on, there's been little time during the first year of the Obama administration to ask a perennial question of presidential politics: What's likely to happen to the Supreme Court? ABC News weighed in Thursday with speculation that two liberal Supreme Court justices – John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg – could step down during Obama's first term. Stevens, 89, didn't hire a full team of clerks for the spring. He also told reporters, "This can't be news. I'm not a kid." And Ginsburg, 76, has undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer. ...
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