This report was first posted at the blog of Americans for a Pluralistic US Supreme Court. The first objective of the Americans for a Pluralistic US Supreme Court blog has been achieved with the Senate confirmation today of Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The Washington Post...
I know it's a difficult case to understand, but I think this is worth reading. A highly biased Jury, working in the wrong city (Miami) have broken the lives of these five brave men (and their relatives) for...
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Republican Arguments Against Sotomayor Founder on the Shoals of Reason and Demographics, Says Petition At present the US Supreme Court is 78% white male while the United States overall is approximately 30% white male. White male Republican senators would have us...
opinion by francislholland | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago 115 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined an appeal by the families of 911 victims to hold Saudi royalty, other Saudi entities and Saudi Arabia in general liable for 911 terrorist attacks. The Saudi defendants will retain their sovereign immunity and cannot be sued in the...
opinion by Yuliya Talmazan | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 59 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
According to the Washington Post's Peter Baker, of the 110 people who have served on the [U.S. Supreme C]ourt, only four were not white males. And yet the caption to his article states: "With President Obama’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, identity politics in America is...
opinion by francislholland | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago 131 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Breaking News: President Obama has chosen federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor from New York, as his nominee for the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday, May 26. "President Barack Obama called Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
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The retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter gives President Obama a chance to effect change that will last past his term in office and the fact that he is likely to nominated somebody who shares his...
created by Tina Kells | 27 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago 509 views | 18 recommendations | 3 comments
Gay advocates and the Black Caucus eye the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left by retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter. Virginia Linder and Kathleen Sullivan, openly lesbian and highly qualified, are...
President Obama has lifted a funding band imposed on organizations providing abortion services abroad that was implemented during the Bush regime.President Obama reaffirmed a woman's 'right to choose' on the 36th...
Just when you thought we might be making progress as a society, a story like this comes out... A society can be judged upon how well it treats its innocent and those in need of protection. It seems that somehow,...
opinion by mgmirkin | 45 wks ago | updated 45 wks ago 1283 views | 73 recommendations | 13 comments
Tonight Joseph Ries will become the 12th Texas execution victim this year unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in to stop it. Texas executes more prisoners than any other state with two last week, two...
Strickland Says Official Documents Using "Theodore and Ted" Would Make Him a Mis-Match This Year OhioNewsBureau with John Michael Spinelli Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and US Sen. Sherrod Brown, both Democrats, defended actions of Ohio Secretary of State...
Supremes Bail Out Brunner But Ohio Republicans Press the Attack on Voter Registration Fraud OhioNewsBureau with John Michael Spinelli Columbus, Ohio: The United States Supreme Court Friday came to the defense of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner with a "Per...
McCain, Republicans Steer Clear of Gustav as Storm Clouds Swirl Around Alaska Gov. Palin OhioNewsBureau By John Michael Spinelli COLUMBUS, OHIO: As Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a first-term Democrat, hits the campaign trail Tuesday in his home state to tout why...
Dayton Scene of Republican Ticket Announcement, But Will Palin Play in the Rest of Ohio? OhioNewsBureau By John Michael Spinelli COLUMBUS, OHIO: Arizona Sen. John S. McCain chose Dayton, Ohio, to announce...
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