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By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe United States Supreme Court Monday made it easier for convicted prisoners to seek and obtain post-trial DNA testing even over the objections of law enforcement officials. In a 6-3 ruling authored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court ruled that death row inmate Henry Skinner could now proceed to seek crime-scene testing from Texas authorities under the federal civil rights law known as "Section 1983." Related Stories The Important Supreme Court Decision You Didn't Hear About Last Week Supreme Court's 8-1 Westboro Ruling -- and Alito's Passionate ...
Supreme Court and Conflicts of Interest: Pressure Builds for More Transparency
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyUnited States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas just passed his fifth anniversary of silence during oral argument before the Court. During that time, he has not asked a single question of a single lawyer in a single case. And no one may force him to do so. But there is growing political and legal pressure on the justice, and the high court itself, to end a different kind of official silence; about conflicts of interest and the reasons why the justices recuse themselves (or, more pointedly, don't) from certain cases. Last month, the public accountability group Common Cause asked the ...
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 ...
Justice Clarence Thomas Amends 1997-2009 Financial Forms
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyU.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas said Monday that he had misunderstood the filing and reporting instructions when he failed for 13 years to properly disclose his wife's income on federal financial forms. The justice then formally amended each of his forms, spanning the years 1997-2009, the accurate contents of which are required from the justices under the Ethics in Government Act. Justice Thomas, an appointee of George H.W. Bush who is now in his 20th year on the high court, was put on the defensive over the weekend following a widely circulated report in Friday's Los ...
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 ...
Hill v. Thomas: Still Angry After All These Years
By Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily"You called who?" It's difficult to imagine the contours of the marital interaction that surely took place recently between Clarence Thomas, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and his longtime wife, Virginia Thomas, a Tea Party activist and conservative advocate. We will likely never know for sure -- communications between spouses are generally covered from public airing by evidentiary privilege. Did Mrs. Thomas tell her husband in advance of her baffling plan to reach out to Anita Hill and request an apology for the sexual harassment allegations Hill leveled against ...
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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