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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 ...
Justice Clarence Thomas: He Did It His Way
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFollow the Trussell cartoons on Twitter at ChaosTheoryPD ...
Justice Clarence Thomas Failed to Report Wife's Earnings, Watchdog Says
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report nearly $700,000 of his wife's income from a conservative foundation during a four-year span, according to a government watchdog. Common Cause cited IRS records from the Heritage Foundation that that show the think tank paid Virginia Thomas $686,589 between 2003 and 2007. Clarence Thomas did not note the earnings in his Supreme Court financial disclosure forms for those years. Where "spousal noninvestment income" would be disclosed, the justice checked the box next to "none," the watchdog said. Related ...
Virginia Thomas Reportedly Steps Down as Head of Conservative Group
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyVirginia Thomas is stepping down as head of Liberty Central, the conservative activist group she founded, to free the organization from the "distractions" of her high profile, The Washington Post reported. A spokeswoman told the newspaper that Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, would formally announce she'll be taking a diminished role with Liberty Central at an event later Monday or Tuesday morning. She'll take a back seat so that Liberty Central can continue with its mission without any of the distractions, Caitlin Carroll said. "After discussing it with the board, ...
A Cheerleader and Her Free-Speech Rights, Tied Up in Court
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyA high school cheerleader, kicked off the squad for refusing to cheer for a player she said raped her, is fighting in court for free-speech rights she said were denied her. The case has attracted national attention, including support for the woman from domestic-violence and First Amendment groups. The (now-former) cheerleader has appeared on CNN, and 15,000 people have an online petition asking the school district in her small town of Silsbee, Texas to apologize to her. In the fall of 2008, the cheerleader, identified in court documents as H.S., was at a post-football game party at a ...
Bachmann Caucus to Start Offering Classes
By Andrea Stone - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Nov. 10) -- Is Glenn Beck University opening a satellite campus on Capitol Hill? If tea party darling Michele Bachmann gets her way, conservative broadcaster Sean Hannity, Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano and David Barton, a Christian evangelist who has said church-state separation is "a myth," will make up the faculty roster when the first classes of her new constitutional conservative caucus convene in the next Congress. The Minnesota Republican recently spoke on Beck's radio show about a new academic counterpart to the tea party caucus she founded earlier this year. Role ...
Virginia Thomas and the Optics of Faith
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyVirginia Lamp Thomas' politically misguided voice-mail message left at professor Anita Hill's Brandeis law school office earlier this month has had several consequences that the former U.S. Chamber of Commerce labor-relations attorney and Labor Department lawyer, who is married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, probably did not expect. Mrs. Thomas's recent high-profile political work running Liberty Central is unusual for the spouse of a Supreme Court justice and has led critics to wonder if she and her husband have conflicted interests. Her organization, bolstered by the high ...
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 ...
Should Women Stop Apologizing So Much?
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics Daily"I'm sorry." Two little words that have come to mean . . . almost nothing. It was a good week for demonstrating just how vapid the apology has become. First, Ginni Thomas called Anita Hill and left a voice mail asking her to apologize for saying that Ginni's husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sexually harassed her nearly two decades ago. Then the Wall Street Journal wrote about the cultural significance of the apology: We apologize more to strangers than we do to loved ones or family, according to new research from the University of Waterloo (in Ontario). To make matters ...
My Opinion: NPR Shouldn't Have Hired Juan Williams in the First Place
By Bonnie Erbé - Politics DailyWhat is most offensive to me is not that National Public Radio fired Juan Williams, but that it hired him in the first place. I have known Mr. Williams for more than two decades; we used to appear regularly as commentators on a Friday night news-of-the-week program produced by and aired on the Howard University-owned public TV station, now WHUT. Juan attended a going-away party at my house for another commentator on that program -- Tony Snow -- when Snow left to join the first Bush administration as a speech writer many years ago. I saw Juan on the street last summer and congratulated him on ...
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