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Was Ted Kennedy right about Scotus?
So was Ted Kennedy right after all? A year ago, the liberal lion in winter wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post in which he accused Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. of having misled the Senate (but not,...Tags: John Kerry, The Washington Post, Philosophy, Antonin Scalia, Elections
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The Senate's Philadelphia lawyer
If you had told me last Saturday that one of Sen. Larry Craig's Republican colleagues was covertly urging him to leave some wiggle room in his promise to resign, I like to think I instantly would have identified that colleague as Sen. Arlen Specter....Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Arlen Specter, Republican Party, Horatio Alger, Antonin Scalia
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Thomas marches to his own tune
Sixteen years after he turned the tables on Anita Hill by telling a Senate committee that he was the victim of a "high-tech lynching," Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas remains a figure of fascination for journalists and amateur psychologists. The...Tags: Antonin Scalia, Justice System, Judges, Constitutional Issues, Local Government
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Which side is Brown vs. Board on?
KENNETH W. MACK is a professor at Harvard Law School. He is writing a book on American civil rights lawyers.AS THE Supreme Court wrestled with race-conscious school assignments in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., last week, the justices drew historical figures into the debate. In the most heated bits from the various opinions, each side accused the other of...Tags: John Marshall, Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens, Justice System, Judges
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What should K-12 kids learn?
Today, Lukianoff and Shermer address the diversity of curricula in K-12 education. Previously, they discussed allegations of instructor bias in classrooms, whether it's proper for schools to set limits on the expression of their students, and if...Tags: Global Change, Newspaper and Magazine, Environmental Issues, Students, Teaching and Learning
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The candidates and the Supreme Court
Why are the two major presidential candidates virtually ignoring the importance of this election in determining the composition of the Supreme Court and the future of constitutional law? One of a president's most long-lasting legacies is in the judges...Tags: Gerald Ford, Antonin Scalia, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Undecided Voters, Elections
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Raiding states' rights?
Today, Stimson and Sullum debate the federal government's assertion of authority in states where certain kinds of drug use are legal. Previously, they compared drug legalization and decriminalization. Later in the week, they'll discuss drug-related...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Health, Prosecution, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Diseases and Illnesses
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Bush and history
Asked six years ago about how history would judge the Iraq war, George W. Bush offered this characteristically cavalier response: "History. We don't know. We'll all be dead." Like the war that came to define it, Bush's presidency conceivably could be...Tags: National Security Agency, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Unrest, Conflicts and War, George W. Bush, U.S. Department of Justice
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Supreme Court greatly reduces damages in Exxon Valdez spill
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Supreme Court on Wednesday brought to a close the 19-year legal battle over the Exxon Valdez oil spill by sharply reducing the punitive damages to be paid by Exxon Mobil Corp. The court ruled that the oil giant must pay $507 million -- about one-tenth...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Health and Safety at Work, Water Pollution, Laws, Companies and Corporations
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Got discipline?
JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN wrote "Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century."WHAT ARE schools for? For the last decade, I've taught a history course with that title at New York University. My students and I examine the different purposes that Americans have assigned to public schools, including: A. to teach the great...Tags: John Dewey, New York University, Public Schools, Education, Arts and Culture
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A U-turn on abortion
THE U.S. SUPREME Court on Wednesday executed an unconscionable U-turn on abortion, upholding a restrictive federal law that is virtually indistinguishable from a Nebraska statute it struck down only seven years ago. For all his paeans to precedent during...Tags: Justice System, Medical Procedures and Tests, Judges, Health, Abortion
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Justices OK latitude on sentencing
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Supreme Court called Monday for a retreat from the strict national sentencing guidelines set during the "war on drugs" of the 1980s, ruling that federal judges may set prison terms well below those recommendations. Judges should be freer to impose...Tags: Prisons, Drugs and Medicines, Health, Laws, Crimes
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