Some cases simply highlight the age and experience difference between the Supreme Court and the rest of society. During oral arguments today in the case City of Ontario v. Quon, which considers whether police officers had an expectation of privacy in personal (and sexually explicit) text messages sent on pagers issued to them by the [...]
Ugh… (and not because I am anti Clinton…I think she would throw herself into the job and make an excellent justice). The Utah Republican, a high-ranking GOPer on the Senate Judiciary Committee, implied that Clinton could be a strong nominee. “I even heard the name Hillary Clinton today, and that would be an interesting person [...]
Supreme Court Justice Scalia knows that convicted prisoners who prove innocence after they are sentenced to capital punishment, ruin any logical argument in favor of the death penalty as a rational outcome of our justice system. So he basically says: real innocence is irrelevant once declared guilty by a jury. Justice Antonin Scalia criticized his [...]