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A Glimmer of Hope for the Women of Wal-Mart
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyAt least 1.5 million women are wondering what's going to happen when the Supreme Court gets its hands on the class-action, gender-discrimination lawsuit against corporate giant Wal-Mart. That's the approximate number of plaintiffs in the case who have alleged they've been victims of institutional efforts by Wal-Mart to promote men over women and systematically pay women less than men. Technically, the only issue to be determined by the Supreme Court is whether a class of plaintiffs can be this big. But as SCOTUS watchers know, that hasn't always stopped the the highest court in the land from ...
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Calif. Video Game Law
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court today questioned the legality of a California law that seeks to control the sale of violent video games. The justices invoked James Madison, 1990s video game "Mortal Kombat" and the Grimm brothers' fairy tales as they heard arguments from the state of California and representatives of the $20 billion-a-year gaming industry. At issue are games such as "Postal 2," in which gamers control a crazed protagonist as he murders and mutilates his way through everyday situations. Gamers can make the protagonist -- known as "Postal Dude " -- shoot, ...
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 ...
Supreme Court Won't Take Case of Pair Barred From Bush Speech for Bumper Sticker
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTheir only offense was a printed slogan displayed outside the event, but the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of two people who were barred from a speech by President George W. Bush in 2005 because they showed up in a car with a bumper sticker reading, "No More Blood for Oil." The court majority gave no reason for not taking the appeal of Leslie Weise and Alex Young, who said a White House aide and two volunteers violated their rights by not letting them enter a public event at a Denver space museum where Bush was speaking, the Washington Post said. But justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and ...
New Supreme Court Set to Start New Term
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 4) -- The Supreme Court is starting its new term with a new justice, Elena Kagan, and bad news for hundreds of parties trying to get their cases heard at the nation's highest court. The justices are expected to start work Monday by denying many of the nearly 2,000 appeals that piled up in recent months. The court also is hearing argument in a bankruptcy dispute and an appeal by criminal defendants seeking shorter prison terms. Supreme Court of the United States Elena Kagan, here with President Barack Obama, begins her first term on the Supreme Court on Monday. During the ...
Elena Kagan's Supreme Court Investiture Set for Today
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyElena Kagan was quietly sworn in nearly two months ago as the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, but there will be pomp and circumstance today when a formal investiture ceremony takes place at 2 p.m. The ceremony is a formal affair, CNN reports, where the authority of the office is conferred. The Senate confirmed Kagan, 63-37, Aug. 5 on a mostly party-line vote. Among the cases she will confront in her first term will be disputes over noisy protests at military funerals, state bans on violent video games and the death penalty. Kagan, 50, the former dean of Harvard Law School, pledged to ...
Elena Kagan Sworn in as 4th Woman in History on Supreme Court
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyShe smiled broadly as admirers stood and applauded. New Yorker Elena Kagan was sworn in Saturday as the Supreme Court's 112th justice, the third woman on the current bench and the fourth female ever to serve on the highest court in the land. Kagan, 50, has never before been a judge at any level, but she has appeared before the Supreme Court as the nation's solicitor general and before that was dean of the Harvard Law School and a counsel to the Clinton White House. Chief Justice John Roberts administered two oaths: one in a ceremony in a conference room at the court with only her family ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham -- South Carolina's Yo-Yo Conservative
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailySouth Carolinians -- and everybody else -- may be a bit confused by Lindsey Graham right now. The GOP senator the state's conservatives love to hate gave them another reason with his vote on Thursday to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. "I found her to be a good, decent person – well qualified in terms of her legal background to sit on the court," he said before he became one of just five Republicans to back Kagan. It echoed his vote to elevate Sonia Sotomayor to the high court a year ago, though she had to endure some lecturing from South Carolina's senior senator during ...
Elena Kagan Confirmed to Supreme Court, 63 to 37
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs expected, the Senate approved on Thursday the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court on a 63-37 vote. Fifty-six Democrats, two independents, and five Republicans voted in favor Kagan's nomination, while one Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, joined 36 Republicans in voting no. Kagan watched the vote on television from a Justice Department conference room with her colleagues, the White House said. The road to Thursday's confirmation was mostly smooth for Kagan, who was approved earlier in the summer by the Senate Judiciary Committee, 13 to 6, with the ...
Elena Kagan Draws Opposition From Senators Who Backed Sotomayor
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThere is no question that Elena Kagan will be easily confirmed by the Senate this week to join the U.S. Supreme Court. But in recent days, Kagan has lost a handful of key votes from both sides of the aisle that Sonia Sotomayor secured during her confirmation process a year ago. Several moderate senators say Kagan's limited courtroom experience makes her too much of an unknown to support. When the Senate voted 68 to 31 to confirm Sotomayor in 2009, every Democrat and nine Republicans backed her, while 31 GOP senators voted no. Among the nine Republicans who supported Sotomayor were Sens. ...
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