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The Important Supreme Court Decision You Didn't Hear About Last Week
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIf you think Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church made out well last week before the U.S. Supreme Court, consider the case of Jason Pepper. The confessed former methamphetamine dealer won his own case last week at the high court -- and may not have to go back to prison for his old crime (he was released pending the appeal). More significantly, the court's ruling struck yet another blow against sentencing guidelines. The reason you probably haven't heard much about Pepper is because the decision in his case, Pepper v. United States, came out last Wednesday just a few minutes before the ...
Year in Review: The Five Most Overblown Legal Stories
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIn this three-part series, Politics Daily's legal analyst Andrew Cohen takes a look back at the year in the law. Part 1 focused on the year's most under-reported legal stories. Part 2 below focuses on the year's most over-reported legal stories. And Part 3 will wrap up the year-end package with a look at major legal events and issues. The Five Most Overblown Legal Stories of 2010 No. 1. The same-sex marriage judge in California is gay. We don't talk anymore in America about the integrity of female judges who decide cases involving issues of interest to women. We don't talk anymore in ...
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 ...
Elena Kagan Hearing, Day One: Why Americans Are Tuning Out
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailySolicitor General Elena Kagan, all but certain to be the next justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was just a prop in a royal blue jacket Monday afternoon as her confirmation hearing began before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During opening statements from the senators, the nominee managed a few weak smiles when Democratic committee members praised her background and experience and bashed the recent work of her would-be conservative colleagues on the court. And she looked positively nauseous when Republican committee members praised the recent work of the Roberts court and bashed her ...
Elena Kagan Confirmation: Tote Board Guide for Supreme Court Nominee Hearing
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Solicitor General Elena Kagan, set to begin Monday, will be filled with tiny islands of insight and humor, amid an ocean of useless legal and political rhetoric. Now that the American Bar Association has taken some of the starch out of the "she's got no judicial experience" argument by giving the nominee its highest rating, there ought to be even less drama than last summer when Sonia Sotomayor went through the process before the same Senate Judiciary Committee. And there was very little drama back then. Still, there are certain expectations that ...
Did Proposition 8 Court Read Right-Wing Blogs?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyA slew of conservative blogs have been attacking Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the US Supreme Court, for a statement that she made in 2005:Judicial Confirmation Network, a conservative group that focuses on judicial nominees, made reference to the quote in a statement this morning condemning Sotomayor's nomination, alleging that Sotomayor "thinks that judges should dictate policy." Conservative bloggers have focused on it as well: The Weekly Standard, Townhall.com, and NewsBusters have all featured posts on the comment this morning.Ed Rawls at Cubic Politics notices a striking ...
Rush Limbaugh Calls Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama 'Racists'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailySpeaking about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh reiterated his tired "hope for failure" routine, plus he lashed out at the President and his nominee, dubbing them "racists," or "reverse racists." From Media Matters:So here you have a racist. You might want to soften that, and you might want to say a reverse racist. And the libs, of course, say that minorities cannot be racists because they don't have the power to implement their racism. Well, those days are gone, because reverse racists certainly do have the power to implement their power. Obama is ...
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