tipping the scales
who announced his retirement on June 27, is confirmed by Senate, Supreme Court will have majority of conservative justices for the time since before New Deal. ..…
who announced his retirement on June 27, is confirmed by Senate, Supreme Court will have majority of conservative justices for the time since before New Deal. ..…
Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh speaks in East Room of White House Washington, U.S., July 9, 2018. © 2018 Reuters As organizations committed to open government and accountability, of incomplete requests for access to government records related to the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme..…
They indicate that administration lawyers were looking for ways to push the limits on interrogating prisoners in the war on terror, that the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison was not the handiwork of few sadistic soldiers.. ..…
Supreme Court refused for yesterday to get pulled into the politically charged fight over Massachusetts, lawmakers and national conservative groups that want to see year-old state court ruling that legalized gay unions overturned.. ..…
school officials may not arrange to have such prayer said at official ceremonies, the court ruled in broad opinion written by Justice Anthony M. ..…
The Court's five conservatives, relied on wholly unprecedented theory of Constitution's guarantee of protection of the laws, to block Florida recount, and President Bush took office.. ..…
Or, as “some in the White House believed,” he could “stand on my powers under Article II of the Constitution and suffer the walkout.” . Who are these “some in the White House” who go so conspicuously unnamed in Bush’s account? ..…
And, if one thing has been clear about the Republican majority on the Supreme Court, it is that it is highly partisan, often using its power to interpret the Constitution as a club for strengthening Republican political power. . No better example exists than the case of Bush v. Gore in..…
Both Democrats and Republicans shifted together after September 11, when there was, new opportunity for United States to advance its interests, with the tectonic plates of geopolitics changing. ..…
September 11, 2011 Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq The Logic of Withdrawal and coauthor with Howard Zinn of Voices of People's History of United States, looks back at the 10 years since September 11 attacks--and how politicians have used the tragedy... ..…
According to August 2008 survey by Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and Pew Research Center for the People & Press, more than seven-in-ten Americans agree it's important that president have strong religious beliefs this is unchanged from recent years. ..…
Most Americans (69%) say they would not want Bush to run for a third term, even if that were permissible under the Constitution. Just 27% would like to see Bush serve as president for a third term. A majority also opposes a hypothetical third term for Bill Clinton (55%), but..…
According to National Election Pool exit poll, Bush received 78% of the vote among white evangelicals, up 10% from 2000, according to Pew's final pre-election poll that year .. ..…
The parasitism that pervades capitalist society underlies the blatant violation of the US Constitution. ... Bush was on its way to the Supreme Court, I said that the outcome of the case would reveal the extent to which there still existed a constituency for democratic principles within the..…