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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 ...
Opinion: Should Companies Be Free to Hide Their Misconduct?
By Mark Grabowski - AOL News(June 30) -- Imagine if the public didn't know about all the corporate wrongdoing leading to BP's oil spill or Goldman Sachs' role in the financial collapse. Without the ensuing public outrage, would the government have responded the same way? Under a recent court ruling, such information may no longer be public. In an unprecedented move overlooked by mainstream media, a federal appellate court ruled that corporations can conceal misconduct uncovered by the government from the public -- such as pollution, hazardous work, and health and safety violations -- simply because they're ...
Top Court's Ruling in School Case Skirts Bigger Issue
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(June 29) -- The Supreme Court has decided a California law school can deny university recognition to a campus club that bars non-Christians from its membership. But the ruling still hasn't settled the larger issue of how far colleges can go in pressing student groups not to discriminate. Many public universities have policies requiring campus groups not to discriminate on the basis of things like religion, sexual orientation and race. However, in making its decision Monday the court passed up the opportunity to rule on how those policies apply to religious groups -- whether a Christian ...
Supreme Court Declines Vatican Sex-Abuse Appeal
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(June 28) -- The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to review a lawsuit that challenges the Vatican's immunity from prosecution in clerical sex abuse cases. Minnesota lawyer Jeffrey Anderson, who filed the case in 2002, called the high court's decision to allow the lawsuit to go forward "an enormous breakthrough for the movement of sex abuse survivors." "The Vatican has hidden behind a wall of immunity and acted as if they are above the law," Anderson told AOL News today. "Now we have a crack in that wall, and we will move forward in our fight against the Vatican." Anderson said the court's ...
Opinion: Supreme Court's Gun Ban Ruling Will Have Limited Impact
By not in system - AOL News(June 28) -- It is not surprising that the same five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled that the District of Columbia's handgun ban was unconstitutional two years ago have now ruled that similar bans, whether enacted by Chicago or any other state or city, are similarly not permitted. Most observers thought the Chicago Cubs had a better chance of ultimately prevailing than Chicago's handgun ban. What may be surprising to many people is that the McDonald v. Chicago case will likely have a limited direct impact. The Supreme Court's ruling defined a very narrow right. It held only "that ...
Opinion: Supreme Court Gun Ban Ruling Can Make Us All Safer
By not in system - AOL News(June 28) -- In a sharply divided 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that state governments are not able to ban most Americans from owning most types of handguns. The majority decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, stated that firearms are "essential for self-defense." Predictably, gun control advocates bemoaned the ruling. But the court's decision is not just correct on constitutional grounds. It will help make the country safer. Another View The gun pushers lobby must be disappointed, since the Supreme Court ruling continues to allow for a wide variety of reasonable gun ...
High Court's Gun Ruling Won't End Local Skirmishes
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 28) -- By extending the Second Amendment right to bear arms to state and local governments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opened the door to legal challenges to gun laws across the country. Whether the decision will change the status quo, though, remains unclear. The case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, strikes down decades-old gun bans in Chicago and its suburb of Oak Park, Ill. It follows almost two years to the day the court's landmark Heller decision striking down the District of Columbia's ban on handgun possession. That case, also decided by an ideologically split ...
'Dangerous' Sex Offenders Can Be Imprisoned Indefinitely, Supreme Court Rules
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal officials can indefinitely hold inmates considered "sexually dangerous," even after they have completed their prison sentences, the Associated Press reports. The court overturned the 4th District Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia, which said Congress overstepped its legal authority in allowing extended detention of certain sex offenders. In the case of United States v. Comstock, the justices voted 7-2 to overturn the lower court's opinion. "The statute is a 'necessary and proper' means of exercising the federal authority that permits Congress to ...
Elena Kagan Memos: Clinton Library Papers Reveal Savvy Political Insider
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySupreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is making courtesy calls on senators to smooth the way for her confirmation hearings, with a White House team in tow to manage the process. With a background in politics, policymaking and dealing with the press, however, Kagan is a seasoned strategist herself, with stints in campaigns and at the Clinton White House. One rap on the nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens is that she has never been a judge. But she does know how government works at the highest levels: the sausage-making behind high-minded presidential initiatives and the inner ...
Elena Kagan's Financial Disclosure, Ethics Agreement Released
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySupreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is the president's Solicitor General, and as an administration employee she was required to submit a financial disclosure and an ethics agreement. ProPublica has posted both documents, dated January 2009, on its Web site. An ethics letter outlines a nominee's potential conflicts of interest. In Kagan's case, she agreed to resign from several academic organizations and fellowships, including the American Law Deans Association and the National Constitution Center. Kagan also stepped down from the advisory board of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets ...
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