Virginia Thomas’s Message to Anita Hill [via The New Yorker] The New Yorker is reporting that Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, placed a call at 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning to Anita Hill, a former employee of the justice’s whose testimony during his confirmation hearings nearly two decades ago almost derailed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
Morning Briefing: 20 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Anita Hill, Canada, Clarence Thomas, Fiji, Supreme Court, United Kingdom, Virginia Thomas on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Christine O’Donnell vs. Chris Coons: Who Won the Debate?
Posted in Politics, tagged Chris Coons, Christine O'Donnell, CNN, Debate, Delaware Dispatch, Democrats, Post-Mortem, Republicans, Senate, Supreme Court on October 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last night Delaware Senate candidates Chris Coons and Christine O’Donnell debated live on primetime CNN (before cutting away to cover the ongoing miner rescues in Chile). The most widely talked-about moment came when moderator Nancy Karibjanian of Delaware First Media asked O’Donnell about which recent Supreme Court rulings with which she disagreed. O’Donnell fumbled the [...]
Morning Briefing: 14 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Pat Sajak, Supreme Court, Turtles on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Gore vs. The Supreme Court: The justices and the ‘CSI effect’ [via The Washington Post] The Supreme Court seemed more like an episode of “CSI,” The Post’s op-ed contributor Dana Milbanks said, during Tuesday’s argument in Harrington v. Richter, a case about competent counsel in a criminal investigation. Milbank fears the justices may have succumbed [...]
Post-Mortem: Snyder v. Phelps Oral Arguments at the Supreme Court
Posted in Law, tagged First Amendment, Post-Mortem, Supreme Court, Westboro Baptist Church on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a controversial First Amendment case regarding protesting military funerals. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas are infamous for protesting military funerals across the nation, displaying signs that imply soldiers’ deaths are God’s punishment on the nation for things such as accepting homosexuality, laws allowing abortion and [...]
Cameras in the Courts: Allowing Access or Creating Confusion?
Posted in Law, Politics, tagged Arlen Specter, Supreme Court, Transparency, YouTube on September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Judicial Conference of the United States, the federal judiciary’s policy-making branch, approved a pilot project last week to bring cameras into some civil proceedings. Parties can veto cameras, and the video will never show jurors’ faces. The cameras will be operated by court personnel, not news organizations. According to a spokesman from the Administrative [...]
TV Pilots (And One Movie) I’m Watching This Fall
Posted in Television, tagged Billy Gardel, Boardwalk Empire, Carly Pope, Gilmore Girls, Jason Ritter, Jesse Bradford, Jimmy Smits, Laura Innes, Lost, Maura Tierney, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Pitt, Mike & Molly, Outlaw, Rob Morrow, Scott Patterson, Sharktopus, Steve Buschemi, Supreme Court, The Event, The Whole Truth, Željko Ivanek on September 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Boardwalk Empire” Premieres Sunday, September 19, 9 p.m. on HBO Starring Steve Buschemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Kenneth Williams, Stephen Graham Atlantic City, 1920, Prohibition. A potent mix, a fascinating period of American history and Steve Buschemi. Who could want more? Buschemi stars as Nucky Thompson, the city’s corrupt treasurer who runs his business [...]
Morning Briefing: 2 September 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Art, Italy, Journalism, MI6, Murder, Supreme Court on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
British spy found dead in bath was padlocked into sports bag [via The Telegraph] The strange case of Britain’s dead spy continues to reveal new twists. MI6 agent Gareth Williams, 31, was found dead in his apartment August 23. New details recently emerged during an inquiry that Williams’ body was discovered by police padlocked inside [...]
Morning Briefing: 25 August 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Alcohol, Hitler, Journalism, Student Media, Supreme Court on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Va. ACLU asks for review of liquor ad ban [via AP/Washington Post] A 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision prohibiting the advertisement of alcohol in Virginia college newspapers has been appealed to the Supreme Court. The 2-1 April ruling found the ban to be an effective method to combat underage drinking. The ACLU of [...]
Open the Supreme Court’s Front Doors Again
Posted in Law, Politics, tagged House of Representatives, Supreme Court on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In May the Supreme Court decided to close its doors, literally; the front doors, up a massive marble staircase, were the iconic image of the high court, were shuttered in May and visitors directed instead to a small side entrance. Some justices dissented; in a statement (PDF), Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledged the [...]
Memorial Crosses in Utah: Unconstitutional?
Posted in Law, Religion, tagged 10th Circuit, Crosses, Supreme Court, Utah on August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Out of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals comes a decision seemingly destined for the Supreme Court: 12-foot crosses erected by the Utah Highway Patrol Association on public land to memorialize fallen highway patrol officers “have the impermissible effect of conveying to the reasonable observer the message that the State prefers or otherwise endorses a [...]
