Anthony Kennedy
Judicial nominees and "playing the religion card."
But which side is playing the religion card? It's hard to tell in this NYT article . But let's take a close look: The Family Research Counci…
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Anthony Kennedy
Discriminating against interstate commerce.
Granholm v. Heald, the wine case I briefly mentioned yesterday, would have been a very easy negative Commerce Clause case -- the state laws discrimin…
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Anthony Kennedy
A quick look at the news.
So, without pope-blogging, what is there? There's Tom DeLay zeroing in on Justice Kennedy , but that's just a rehash, though I suppose we ca…
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Anthony Kennedy
Should respect for the initiative process have moved the Supreme Court to stretch the restraints of the standing requirement?
Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the Supreme Court majority in Hollingsworth v. Perry , says: We have never before upheld the standing of a private…
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Anthony Kennedy
"Kennedy is well known in the court's press corps for never using 1,000 words when 5,000 words would more murkily murk his murk."
James Kilpatrick is sick of Supreme Court cases and he's not going to write about them anymore. (Via H ow Appealing .)
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Anthony Kennedy
Does the Supreme Court understand Orwell's "1984"? No!
Yesterday, I was studying United States v. Alvarez , the case, decided last June, about the Stolen Valor Act (which made a crime about lying about ha…
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Anthony Kennedy
Discriminating against interstate commerce.
Granholm v. Heald, the wine case I briefly mentioned yesterday, would have been a very easy negative Commerce Clause case -- the state laws discrimin…
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Anthony Kennedy
Katrina and segregation.
Bearing Blog writes about an interview on NPR with Betty Hearn Morrow, a disaster sociologist. (The audio should be available here at 1:00.) Bizarr…
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Anthony Kennedy
Huge decision on political gerrymandering: "We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts."
That's Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the 5-4 majority. You can find the news articles yourself, I will read the opinion and update. ADDED: …
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Anthony Kennedy
"It wasn't that God didn't bless the union. To put if off on God I didn't feel was valid."
The Vatican has reversed the annulment of the marriage of Sheila Rauch Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy (the oldest son of Bobby Kennedy): "When y…
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Anthony Kennedy
Remaining silent is not an invocation of the right to remain silent.
Says the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, Berghuis v. Thompkins . ''Thompkins did not say that he wanted to remain silent or that he did no…
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Anthony Kennedy
Is attention deficit a disorder?
From today's Science Times, psychiatrist Paul Steinberg writes: We live in an information age, in a knowledge-based economy. For those of us who…
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Anthony Kennedy
“Neither Steve Breyer nor Ruth Ginsburg has much of a purchase on Tony Kennedy’s mind.”
That's actually the most embarrassing sentence in Larry Tribe's letter to Obam a about who to nominate to the Supreme Court. I love the use o…
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Anthony Kennedy
Understanding Justice Kennedy in the Masterpiece Cake case.
I took the trouble to read the oral argument transcript ( PDF ), and I "live-blogged" my reading of it. You can read my 32-point post here …
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Anthony Kennedy
It's not the Kennedy Court it's the Roberts v. Stevens Court.
Jan Crawford Greenburg says people are wrong to focus on Justice Kennedy, despite his ability to tip the Court to one side or the other in tough cas…
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Anthony Kennedy
About Justice Kennedy's garish carpet and the way his desk is wedged in a corner.
Let's take a look at this passage from Jeffrey Toobin's book "The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court," page 147: [J…
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Anthony Kennedy
Just you wait for the next post.
I see Justice Kennedy voted with the liberals on the global warming case . I'm on vacation, but I'm going to write about that case for you an…
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Anthony Kennedy
"Fix law schools’ diversity problem, NOW!"
Says Instapundit , referring to intellectual diversity and quoting a Scott Rasmussen piece that cites a James Lindgren study that shows 82% of lawpr…
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Anthony Kennedy
"Kennedy is well known in the court's press corps for never using 1,000 words when 5,000 words would more murkily murk his murk."
James Kilpatrick is sick of Supreme Court cases and he's not going to write about them anymore. (Via H ow Appealing .)
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Anthony Kennedy
Remaining silent is not an invocation of the right to remain silent.
Says the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, Berghuis v. Thompkins . ''Thompkins did not say that he wanted to remain silent or that he did no…
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