Category Archives: Supreme Court Issues

Supreme Court Appointment: We've Already Lost

Le’ts face it: It’s not possible for Democrats in the Senate – not even if they’re 100% united, which they aren’t – to block a right-wing, anti-Roe Bush nomination to the Supreme Court. My email and blog-reading lately has been … Continue reading

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What women who value their reproductive rights have lost

With Justice O’Connor’s retirement, we have lost something on the highest court in the land. On CNN, I heard one of the anchors refer to her as a “classical moderate”, who ‘drove the other justices crazy because she didn’t have … Continue reading

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Some of Dubya's potential Supreme Court replacements

Here are a few justices that could be raised to the Supreme Court, should Dubya choose…. Samuel Alito: Sitting on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, he is nicknamed “Scalito”? because of his ultra-conservative, anti-choice views.[1] Alito has concluded that … Continue reading

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Supreme Court Justice O'Connor Hands In Resignation

After last week’s buzz about Rehnquist’s possible retirement, today has brought an interesting new development. While it has been widely known that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has made it clear she intended to retire prior to 2008, and likely prior to December of this year, she has apparently handed in her resignation Continue reading

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O'Connor Announces Her Retirement From The Supreme Court

First woman to serve as US supreme court justice retires Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the United States’ supreme court, today announced her retirement, paving the way for an ideological battle over her successor. In the … Continue reading

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Whacky Activists Target Souter For Eminent Domain Ruling

The controversial decision of the Supreme Court on June 23rd regarding the issue of eminent domain in the case The Kelo v. City of New London has sparked some interesting conversations, and now some rather humorous actions on the part of angry citizens. Continue reading

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