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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Military Funeral Protesters
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- 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 court ruling that threw out a $5 million judgment to the father of a dead Marine who sued church members after they picketed his son's funeral. Nicholas Kamm, AFP/Getty Images Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas church known for its vehement anti-gay ...
Amid Closings and Cutbacks, a Modest Proposal to Save Our Courts
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyFederal court administrators announced a few weeks ago that they want to help their colleagues in courthouses around the country improve the quality and consistency of judicial websites, which have been notoriously user-unfriendly for years. This is a good step, and a needed one, and I wish court clerks and judicial technology experts everywhere much good luck with the coming transition. Easy, accessible websites are one of the most cost-effective ways in which the courts can remind people of the vital importance of the judiciary in their lives. That goal means more than ever now, at a time ...
House GOP Might Want to Skip Over Some Parts of Constitution
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- It's Constitution Week on Capitol Hill. As the newly divided Congress files into town, incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner is making sure the tea party knows Republicans heard their message about the need to adhere to the nation's founding document. He has invited Chief Justice John Roberts to swear in his staff, an unprecedented ceremony in congressional history. Another justice, Antonin Scalia, is scheduled to teach Constitution 101 later this month to tea party freshmen and others in Rep. Michele Bachmann's constitutional conservative caucus. Tom ...
Roberts Casts Blame on Both Parties for Judicial Nomination Gridlock
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting federal judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political gridlock of judicial nominations in the Senate. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of judicial nominations, depending on their changing political fortunes," Roberts said Friday in his year-end report. "This has created acute difficulties for some judicial districts. Sitting judges in those districts have been burdened with extraordinary caseloads." There ...
With State Justice Systems Reeling, Chief Justice Roberts Praises Supreme Court's Frugality
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailySupreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. wrote all the right things Friday in his annual state-of-the-judiciary remarks. He noted the 75th anniversary of the high court's current building (without acknowledging that security concerns in 2010 forced the closure of its front doors to the public). He praised the dogged work of federal judges and the legions of administrators who help make our courts functioning. He promoted a strategic plan for growth and innovation proposed by the Judicial Conference of the United States and, in comments certain to reverberate through Capitol Hill and ...
Thanksiving Dinner at the Supreme Court: A Fantasy Feast for the Ears
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe nine learned Americans, six men and three women, six Catholics and three Jews, all of them over 50 and one of them black, sat down for a traditional Thanksgiving meal. They said their prayers, they shook hands, they passed around the food, and then, as is their custom, they took turns speaking. There was no one else in the room. "We have a lot to be thankful for," John said solemnly. "We've survived another year, we've done our work as best we can, we still generally like each other on most days, and the Republic has not fallen apart. It's a shame our brother John, Mr. Stevens, isn't ...
Opinion: Technical Difficulties at the Supreme Court
By Mark Grabowski - AOL News(June 1) -- If you're in America and not yet acquainted with cell phones, computers and the Internet, you must have spent the past decade under a rock. Or be a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Supreme Court justices lately have displayed a startling level of ignorance about computing and communication methods that many Americans take for granted. Yet, as members of the nation's highest court, they're increasingly setting legal precedents about these very technologies. At a November oral argument, Chief Justice John Roberts, who reportedly drafts his opinions with pen and paper instead of a ...
Arlen Specter, New Democrat: How Do You Catch a Cloud and Pin It Down?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyHARRISBURG, Pa. -- Sen. Arlen Specter, who left the Republican Party exactly a year ago to become a Democrat, recently signaled another shift, this one on confirmation of Supreme Court justices. "I'm rethinking the standards of how I approach the decision on a nominee," Specter told the Pennsylvania Press Club. As the 30-year Senate veteran explained why, it was hard to avoid wondering: Was he offering a rationale, or a rationalization? The question arises on a regular basis in connection with Specter, 80, whose quirky, legalistic and sometimes opportunistic operating mode brings to mind ...
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