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July 2008
- DC Still Defying Court on Guns
  
  newser | Reason Magazine | Jul 23, 08 2:43 PM CDT
  
  The District of Columbia is defying the Supreme Court with efforts to preserve the handgun ban deemed unconstitutional last month, Jacob Sullum writes in Reason . A new law changes the wording of the controversial “disassemble and trigger-lock” provision, meaning owners won’t be allowed to keep guns loaded and must wait for a “reasonably perceived threat”—a complication that could prove fatal to a homeowner under attack, Sullum notes. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • gun • Second Amendment • handgun • handgun ban • District of Columbia
- Illegal Search Rule Faces New Challenge
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 19, 08 8:16 AM CDT
  
  America is the only country in the world where evidence—even a carload of narcotics—is automatically suppressed if the police are found to have acted wrongly in acquiring it, writes the New York Times . Courts in other countries weigh the level of police misconduct with the gravity of the crime and the power of the evidence. In the US, the exclusion is absolute, but a change could be coming. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • police • law enforcement • Fourth Amendment • US Constitution • search and seizure
- Trial of Bin Laden's Driver Can Begin, Judge Rules
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 1:37 PM CDT
  
  The first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay can begin Monday, a federal judge ruled today, saying civilian courts should let the military process play out as Congress intended. A US District judge rejected an effort by Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, to postpone his trial. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • Guantanamo Bay • September 11 • Osama bin Laden • Guantanamo prisoners • federal courts • Salim Ahmed Hamdan
- Supreme Court: It's a Dialog, Not an Isolated Oracle
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 13, 08 5:00 AM CDT
  
  Rather than boldly paving new roads, the Supreme Court functions largely as a bellwether of public opinion, cementing change “rather than propelling it,” writes Linda Greenhouse, looking back on some 30 years of reporting on the court for the New York Times . The justices don’t constitute a “remote oracle”--instead, they function as part of America’s ever-changing political dialog. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • justice system • justice • decision
- Teenagers Have Rights, Too
  
  newser | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Jul 12, 08 7:10 PM CDT
  
  "Teenagers have constitutional rights." That shouldn’t be controversial, but several schools are in court arguing that the First Amendment doesn't apply to students, writes Frank LoMonte in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . Morse v. Frederick set a precedent last year, when Supreme Court judges ruled that students could be punished for a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner—even though it was off school grounds. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • education • school • First Amendment • freedom of speech
- Bush, EPA Won't Touch Emissions
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 11, 08 2:24 PM CDT
  
  Regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will have to wait until President Bush is out of office, the EPA announced today. Instead, the agency will say it needs months of further public comment to make any decision. The statement is the end result of a protracted White House effort to tone down the agency’s findings, the Washington Post reports. More »
  
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  Bush administration • US Supreme Court • greenhouse gases • Environmental Protection Agency • greenhouse-gas emissions • EPA
- Judge Demands Speedy Trial for Gitmo Prisoners
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 9, 08 2:51 AM CDT
  
  A federal judge coordinating 200 Guantanamo Bay cases has ordered the Justice Department to set aside all other work to give the detainees their day in court as soon as possible. "The time has come to move these forward," he ruled. A Justice Department attorney asked for eight weeks to start turning over evidence so the government can "present its best case." More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Justice Department • Center for Constitutional Rights
- Employers Use Law to Withhold Benefits
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 5, 08 6:41 PM CDT
  
  Thomas Amschwand was dying, but made sure his wife would collect on his $426,000 life insurance policy. Yet when he died, his boss withheld the money, and his wife was powerless—because a federal law stops workers from suing employers for large sums of health, life, or retirement benefits. Amschwand’s wife recovered her husband's premiums, which didn't even cover the funeral. More »
  
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  lawsuit • US Supreme Court • health insurance • life insurance • benefits • retirement benefits
- Bush Could Decide by Weekend to Close Gitmo
  
  newser | ABC News | Jul 3, 08 3:55 PM CDT
  
  President Bush could decide by Saturday to close Guantanamo Bay as a prison for high-value detainees, insiders tell ABC. There is “generally wide agreement” among Bush's top advisers—Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates among them—that Gitmo should eventually be shuttered, but the landmark recent Supreme Court decision undermines the central reason to keep prisoners on the Cuban base—to prevent access to courts. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • US Supreme Court • Condoleezza Rice • Guantanamo Bay • Cuba • Robert Gates • habeas corpus
- Supreme Court Goofs Up Key Fact in Child Rape Decision
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 2, 08 2:36 AM CDT
  
  The Supreme Court misconstrued a key fact in reaching its recent decision banning the death penalty for child rape, reports the New York Times . Swing justice Anthony Kennedy mistakenly noted in his decision that child rapists did not face the death penalty in federal jurisdiction. But in fact the rape of a child was made a military capital crime when the military code of justice was revised in 2006. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • death penalty • Anthony Kennedy • child rape • military law
June 2008
- Mayors Call for Middle Ground on Guns
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 30, 08 9:44 AM CDT
  
  Extremist-driven debate over gun control “made for good political theater,” but it hasn’t accomplished much, mayors Michael Bloomberg of New York and Thomas Menino of Boston write in the Wall Street Journal. Now that the Supreme Court has clarified the issue, it’s time to implement some common-sense consensus changes to the nation's gun laws. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • Michael Bloomberg • mayor • Second Amendment • gun sales • background checks
- Chief Justice Ain't Got a Bob Dylan Quote
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 29, 08 4:22 PM CDT
  
  A Supreme Court decision was livened up this week by a quote from 1960s thinker, Robert Dylan—known to his fans as Bob. Regarding a stand-off between phone companies, Chief Justice John Roberts quoted, "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose," from Bob Dylan's 1965 hit Like a Rolling Stone . But Roberts left out a word that most Dylan fans remember, the New York Times reports. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • John Roberts • pop music • rock music • Bob Dylan
- McCain Would Tilt Split Court Right
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 29, 08 1:19 PM CDT
  
  America’s choice for president will likely ripple all the way to the halls of the sharply divided Supreme Court, the Washington Post reports. Since the next justice to retire is likely to be left-leaning, a Barack Obama victory would maintain the status quo of four conservatives, four liberals, and Anthony M. Kennedy serving as the swing vote. But if John McCain appoints the next justice, the court could swing decidedly to the right. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • election 2008 • US Supreme Court • conservative • liberal • justices
- Supreme Court's Gay Rights Revolution
  
  newser | Time | Jun 29, 08 6:15 AM CDT
  
  It’s been five years since the Supreme Court heard Lawrence v. Texas and handed down a landmark decision in effect decriminalizing homosexual activity and paving the way for gay marriage legislation in Massachusetts and California. The decision has been cited in numerous cases around the country challenging morals legislation, and triggered profound changes in law and society, Time reports. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • gay marriage • gay rights • homosexual • decision • sodomy
- NRA Sues San Francisco, Chicago Over Gun Laws
  
  newser | San Francisco Chronicle | Jun 28, 08 9:33 AM CDT
  
  Close on the heels of the Supreme Court ruling that Americans have the right to own guns for self-defense, the National Rifle Association filed suits yesterday against San Francisco and Chicago over gun-control laws in those cities. In San Francisco, the NRA hopes to overturn a law keeping guns out of public housing, and in Chicago, to end a ban on gun ownership, the San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune report. More »
  
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  lawsuit • US Supreme Court • Chicago • San Francisco • gun control • gun ban • National Rifle Association
- Order in Court Will Be Task for Next President
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jun 27, 08 3:41 PM CDT
  
  Recent Supreme Court decisions that broke 5-4 underlined the impact the next president could have on top US judicial body, the Boston Globe notes. The liberal bloc—including John Paul Stevens (age 88) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (75)—is more likely to lose members during the next administration, so a President McCain could greatly change the Court's bent by replacing them with conservative Justices. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • US Supreme Court • John Roberts • Samuel Alito • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • John Paul Stevens
- Gun Ruling Will Trigger Barrage of Lawsuits
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 26, 08 6:45 PM CDT
  
  Today's Supreme Court ruling upholding an individual's right to bear arms is unlikely to lead to sweeping changes across the nation, the New York Times reports. Gun laws in most cites and states—putting restrictions on felons and the mentally ill, for example, or banning guns in certain settings—appear to be safe. The biggest impact will be in cities with the most restrictive laws—DC, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Detroit—where a wave of legal challenges no doubt awaits. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • gun • Washington DC • Antonin Scalia • Second Amendment • John Paul Stevens • self defense
- Candidates Duel Over Gun Ruling
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Jun 26, 08 4:17 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama and John McCain were firing away even before the Supreme Court's Second Amendment salvo today, Talking Points Memo notes. The Democrat backed away from a year-old comment (by an aide) that he thought Washington’s handgun ban was constitutional; the Republican smacked his opponent for flip-flopping—even using a reference to Obama's much-publicized remarks about "bitter" Americans and guns. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • US Supreme Court • gun • Antonin Scalia
- Justices Nix 'Millionaire's Amendment' for Campaigns
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 26, 08 3:20 PM CDT
  
  The Supreme Court today voided the “millionaire’s amendment,” ruling by 5-4 that the law—which raised donation limits for candidates who face wealthy, self-financed opponents—violates the First Amendment, the AP reports. The majority said it would have been a different story if all candidates saw their limits raised. Notably, Barack Obama (in his Senate primary) may be the biggest beneficiary of the 2002 law to date. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • US Supreme Court • campaign finance
- Gun Ruling a Sea Change for 2nd Amendment
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 26, 08 2:28 PM CDT
  
  The Supreme Court’s decision today striking down Washington's handgun ban represented a change in interpreting the Second Amendment. The court’s 5-4 vote split down partisan lines, the Post reports, with Justices Scalia, Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito in opposition to Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer. "The enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table," Scalia wrote. More »
  
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  US Supreme Court • Washington DC • gun control • Antonin Scalia • Second Amendment • constitutional law • Washington, D.C. • Washington, DC

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