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Also Try Constitution Landmark Cases Marshall, Thurgood O'Connor, Sandra Day News -01-05-06 Alito Expected to Move Supreme Court Decisively to the Right (Christian Science Monitor) "Not since the 1987 nomination of Judge Robert Bork to replace retiring moderate Justice Lewis Powell has the high court faced such an abrupt move to the right in so many areas at once. And not since the Bork nomination has there been such a large and determined coalition assembled in opposition to a high court nominee, analysts say." "Supporters portray Alito as a careful, conservative jurist within the mainstream of American legal thought. Opponents paint him as an agenda-driven ideologue." 01-06 -02-28-07 Supreme Court Ruling Not Retroactive (Christian Science Monitor) "At issue in Mr. Bockting's case was whether the high court would apply retroactively its 2004 holding that defendants must be given a chance to cross-examine or otherwise confront witnesses against them in their trials." "The majority justices in the Crawford case said such practices by judges violated the constitutional principle behind the confrontation clause. In the context of an adversarial trial, one of the most efficient ways for a judge or jury to ascertain the truth is to give the accused the right to confront in open court those making the accusations." 02-07 -03-26-08 Supreme Court Rules Against Bush (Christian Science Monitor) "The US Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a setback to President Bush's expansive vision of presidential power, ruling that a unilateral attempt by Mr. Bush to order state courts to comply with an international treaty violated 'first principles' of constitutional government." 03-08 -06-18-07 Court: Passengers Have Rights in a Stop (Time Magazine) "Passengers, like drivers, have a constitutional right to challenge the legality of police decisions to stop cars in which they are traveling, the Supreme Court said Monday." 06-07 -06-25-07 Supreme Court Conservatives Make Imprint (MSNBC News) "Monday’s Supreme Court rulings in three high-profile cases showed that Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito, both appointees of President Bush, are putting their imprint on the high court’s decisions." "Roberts wrote the majority opinion in two of the big cases, both involving the First Amendment right to free speech, one on regulation of campaign ads and the other on a high school student’s unauthorized banner." 06-07 -06-27-05 Supreme Court: Some Religious Displays OK (MSNBC News) "What do the two apparently contradictory decisions on displays of the Ten Commandments announced Monday by the Supreme Court mean for religious expression in America?" "In a nutshell, the effect of the court’s two rulings was to say, 'Old religious displays are OK, new ones are not.' ”  6-05 -06-30-07 Supreme Court Approves Student's Anti-Bush T-Shirt (CBS News) "The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by the Williamstown school district of a ruling that it violated Guiles' rights by censoring his T-shirt." 06-07 -06-30-07 Supreme Court Rejects School Diversity Plans (Christian Science Monitor) "While the race of a student can be one of many characteristics taken into consideration to achieve diversity in the student body, it may not become the predominant criterion that determines which students are admitted to the most popular schools in a district." "Both of the challenged enrollment plans in Louisville and Seattle attempted to address de facto segregation tied in part to housing patterns. The voluntary desegregation programs were aimed at preventing the school districts from sliding into a starkly segregated environment with minority students isolated in inner-city schools and white students isolated in suburban schools." 06-07 -07-01-05 Justice O'Connor Retires (CBS News) "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement Friday after 24 years on the U.S. Supreme Court. The first woman ever to serve on the nation's highest court, she was considered a key swing vote on issues such as abortion and the death penalty." 7-05 -07-01-05 Justice O'Connor Retires (CBS News) "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement Friday after 24 years on the U.S. Supreme Court. The first woman ever to serve on the nation's highest court, she was considered a key swing vote on issues such as abortion and the death penalty." 7-05 -07-02-05 Big Issues for Next Term of Supreme Court (ABC News) "Abortion, assisted suicide, gay rights, the death penalty. Some of the toughest issues in the land confront the Supreme Court in its new term in the fall." 7-05 -09-03-05 U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies (Bloomberg.com) "U.S. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who led the Supreme Court in curbing death-row appeals and limiting congressional power, died at 80. His death creates a second vacancy for President George W. Bush to fill and ratchets up the stakes in the fight over the high court's future." 9-05 -09-30-05 Supreme Court Opens with New Chief Roberts (MSNBC News) "The Supreme Court takes up one of the new term's most significant cases just a few days after John Roberts occupies the center chair on the bench as the nation's 17th chief justice." "On Oct. 5, Oregon defends its Death with Dignity Act. It allows doctors to prescribe a lethal dose to terminally ill patients, who can use it to end their own lives." 9-05 -10-02-06 Supreme Court's Issues for the Year (PBS News) "The U.S. Supreme Court began its next term Monday with cases on late-term abortions, the use of race in school admissions, patent law and pollution control. Legal experts discuss the cases and the issues that will define the new term." 10-06 -10-19-05 Questions Senate Submitted to Harriet Miers (C-Span.org) Provides answers of Harriet Miers, candidate for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 10-05 -11-14-05 Alito: No Right to Abortion (CBS News) "Judge Samuel Alito, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, wrote in 1985 that he's a lifelong conservative and that he believes 'the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.' " 11-05 -11-26-05 Supreme Court to Hear Abortion Notification Case (USA Today) "To some, a never-enforced New Hampshire law requiring parental notification before a minor has an abortion is a backward step for women's rights. To others, it protects parents' right to know if their child is having an abortion." "The U.S. Supreme Court will consider those arguments Wednesday as it begins to weigh whether to reinstate a law that requires parental notification 48 hours before an abortion can be performed on a woman under the age of 18." 11-05 -Supreme Court News (ABC News) Provides news on the U.S. Supreme Court. 9-05 Rehnquist, William (Wikipedia.org) "William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924–September 3, 2005) was an American attorney, jurist, and political figure. He was a former law clerk and Assistant Attorney General." "In 1972, he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court as an Associate Justice by President Richard Nixon, and in 1986 was appointed Chief Justice by Ronald Reagan. He went on to preside over the court as Chief Justice for 19 years, making him the longest-serving Chief Justice since Melville Weston Fuller, who died in 1910." 9-05 Rehnquist, William - Legacy (Fox News) "Although Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist (search) will probably go down in history as one of the justices who sided with President Bush in the contested 2000 election, his true legacy may well reveal him to be a uniter on a deeply divided court." 10-05 Roberts, John - Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (Awesome Library) Provides information on his life and positions on issues. 7-05 Supreme Court News (MSNBC News) Provides news on the changing U.S. Supreme Court. 01-06 The Silent Supreme Court Judge (MSNBC News) "Two years and 142 cases have passed since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last spoke up at oral arguments. It is a period of unbroken silence that contrasts with the rest of the court's unceasing inquiries." 02-08 Papers -01-24-06 Supreme Justice Problem? (ABC News) "At the historic swearing-in of John Roberts as the 17th chief justice of the United States last September, every member of the Supreme Court, except Antonin Scalia, was in attendance. ABC News has learned that Scalia had instead was on the tennis court at one of the country's top resorts, the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Bachelor Gulch, Colo., during a trip to a legal seminar sponsored by the Federalist Society." 01-06 -Alito, Samuel (Wikipedia.org) "Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. (born on April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. He was sworn in on January 31, 2006, as the Supreme Court's 110th Justice." 01-06 -Editorial: Supreme Court's Low Point (CNN News) " The tragedy of the court's performance in the election of 2000 was not that it led to Bush's victory but the inept and unsavory manner with which the justices exercised their power." "There was only one bright spot in this dismal panorama. John Paul Stevens' dignified, clearheaded and insistent eloquence honored the court. Alone among the justices, Stevens was consistent and logical and constitutionally sound in his thinking. From his home in Fort Lauderdale, he composed a peroration that serves as the best epitaph for this sorry chapter in the court's history:" " 'The [opinion] by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land. It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today's decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is pellucidly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.' " 06-07 A History of Supreme Court Nominee Battles (MSNBC News) "Sometimes, as in the cases of Louis Brandeis in 1916 and Robert Bork in 1986, the nomination battle mirrored the ideological struggles of that time." "The Brandeis nomination served as a referendum on the country’s political direction: Should the court serve, as it had for decades, as a bulwark of protection for corporate interests?" 8-05 Amistad Supreme Court Decision Provides the full text of the Supreme Court decision regarding the group of men who were captured and made slaves aboard The Amistad. Boy Scouts Lose Appeal Over Their Ban (CNN News) "The Boy Scouts of America lost a U.S. Supreme Court appeal over its exclusion from sharing in the proceeds of a state-run charity campaign because it bans homosexuals." "Connecticut says it excluded 29 other organizations from the charitable campaign because they didn't meet the non-discrimination requirement." 3-04 Corporate Charters - Granting Corporations Personhood (Grossman and Adams) Discusses the U.S. Supreme Court decision of 1886, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, that first granted corporations the same rights as an individual citizen. The Supreme Court stated that: "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opinion that it does." "Thus it was that a two-sentence assertion by a single judge elevated corporations to the status of persons under the law, prepared the way for the rise of global corporate rule, and thereby changed the course of history." 7-02 Corporate Charters - Limitations of the Past (Grossman and Adams) "Many colonial citizens argued that under the Constitution, no business could be granted special privileges. Others worded that once incorporators amassed wealth, they would use their corporate shields to control jobs and production, buy off the press and dominate elections and the courts." However, in 1886 the U.S. Supreme Court granted corporations the same rights and protections as individual persons. "Within just a few decades, appointed judges had redefined the 'common good' to mean the corporate use of humans and the Earth for maximum production and profit -- no matter what was manufactured, who was hurt or what was destroyed. Corporations had obtained control over resources, production, commerce, jobs, politicians, judges and the law. Workers, citizens, cities, towns, states and nature were left with fewer and fewer rights that corporations were forced to respect." "By rewriting the [state] laws governing corporations, we citizens can reassert the convictions of the people who struggled to resist corporate rule in the past." 7-02 Decisions - Supreme Court Decisions (Legal Information Institute) Provides a searchable database of Supreme Court decisions going back to 1990. 1-05 Decisions - U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in June, 2000 (Christian Science Monitor) Provides short summaries of key Supreme Court Decisions related to abortion, separation of church and state, and gay rights. 6-00 Decisions - U.S. Supreme Court Rulings (Yahoo News) Provides the latest Supreme Court rulings. 11-01 Decisions - US Supreme Court Decisions (FindLaw) Provides a searchable database of Supreme Court decisions going back to 1937. Decisions - US Supreme Court Decisions By Party Name (Legal Information Institute) Provides an alphabetic listing of Supreme Court decisions by the last name of the persons involved. 5-00 Decisions - US Supreme Court Decisions By Subject (Legal Information Institute) Provides an alphabetic listing of Supreme Court decisions by subject. For example, gun control issues would be under "S" for Second Amendment. 5-00 Decisions - US Supreme Court Decisions Search by Subject (Northwestern University - Goldman) Provides a searchable database of Supreme Court decisions by subject. A limited number of cases are provided for each subject. Not all subjects or cases are covered. Editorial: Missing: Media Focus on the Supreme Court (Fair.org - Solomon) "Though Bush and Kerry are inclined to understate the importance of potential new Supreme Court picks as they try to attract swing voters, Professor Dorf is unequivocal: 'A Bush victory will greatly increase the likelihood that Congress and the state legislatures will be able to ban most abortions at some point in the next four years. In contrast, a Kerry victory will almost surely preserve the status quo of legal abortion prior to the third trimester of pregnancy.' " "Already, Bush's impacts on the judiciary have been appreciable. Like the members of the Supreme Court, the federal judges on appeals and district court benches are appointed for life -- and in less than four years, Bush has chosen almost a quarter of all those judges nationwide." 9-04 Education - States Can Deny Scholarships for Ministry (Bloomberg.com) "States that offer college scholarships can deny them to students majoring in theology without violating their constitutional rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled." 2-04 Election 2000 - Argument for Bush in the U.S. Supreme Court (McNeil-Lehrer Productions - PBS NewsHour) Provides arguments by Theodore Olson that the Florida Supreme Court violated the U.S. Constitution by extending the deadline for vote results to permit hand recounts in the presidential election. 11-00 Election 2000 - Argument for Gore in the U.S. Supreme Court (McNeil-Lehrer Productions - PBS NewsHour) Provides Laurence Tribe's arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court. He argued that the Florida Supreme Court acted properly and did not violate the U.S. Constitution by extending the deadline for vote results to permit hand recounts in the presidential election. 11-00 Election 2000 - Both State and Federal Supreme Courts Were Wrong (Wall Street Journal - Rosen) Expresses the opinion, based on legal grounds, that both the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court violated their appropriate roles in their rulings on the Presidential election of 2000. "By promulgating its own rules after the fact, Judge Posner argues, the Florida court was not perfecting the democratic system, as many have claimed, but undermining one of its fundamental pillars: that succession take place according to procedures that are 'fixed in advance, objective, administrable, and clear.'" "No less disturbing as a matter of judicial philosophy--and seeming partisan favoritism--was the [U.S.] Supreme Court's obvious unwillingness to let the election dispute work itself out in Florida or, if need be, in Congress." 11-01 Election 2000 - Florida (12-9) U.S. Supreme Court to Stop Vote Counts (CNN) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to stop hand recounts of contested "undervotes" in Florida. 12-00 Election 2000 - U.S. Supreme Court Chose Bush (St. Petersburg Times - Greenhouse) Discusses the U.S. Supreme Court decision to stop the vote counting in Florida. 12-00 Election 2000 - U.S. Supreme Court Risks (Boston Globe - Milligan) Provides observations from scholars that the U.S. Supreme Court may be risking its role of impartiality by participating in the presidential election process. 12-00 Election 2000 - U.S. Supreme Court Ruling - Right (usnews.com - Leo) Provides an editorial that four justices of the Florida Supreme Court acted as partisans and caused a problem that the U.S. Supreme Court solved. 12-00 Election 2000 - U.S. Supreme Court Ruling - Wrong (Salon - Kamiya) Provides an editorial that five of the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court acted with partisan self-interest. 12-00 Federalist Papers (Yale Law School - Avalon Project) Provides the Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. These documents are used by the U.S. Supreme Court and others to help interprete the U.S. Constitution and American law. 8-02 Hearings of Judge Samuel Alito Before the U.S. Senate (C-Span.org) Provides the transcripts of the hearings. 01-06 How the U.S. Supreme Court Works (BBC News) "The Supreme Court is the highest court in the US. Its decisions cannot be appealed and can only be changed by another Supreme Court decision or a constitutional amendment." 6-05 Justices - Biographies of U.S. Supreme Court Justices (Legal Information Institute) Provides brief profiles, as well as recent decisions by each justice. 6-02 Justices - Fight for the Supreme Court (MSNBC News) "With openings looming on Supreme Court, president may soon face a defining battle." 11-04 Justices - Sen. Specter Pressured to Back Pro-Life Candidates (Wired News) "A Republican senator who has questioned whether an abortion opponent could win approval to the U.S. Supreme Court must agree to back President Bush's nominees if he is to head the committee acting on those nominations, the Senate's Republican leader said." "Specter, who supports abortion rights, sparked a conservative furor by saying after the Nov. 2 election that Bush still lacked enough Senate votes to overcome Democratic attempts to block on any nominees who would overturn the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion." "Bush is expected to have a chance to fill multiple Supreme Court vacancies during his second term, and for many in Bush's conservative base, obtaining a court that would overturn Roe v. Wade is a top priority." 11-04 Justices - Supreme Court Judge Scalia Socializes With Cheney Before Hearing (CBS News) "Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana, just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force, the Los Angeles Times says in its Saturday editions." "While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia's ability to judge the case impartially, the newspaper pointed out." "Federal law says 'any justice or judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned,' the Times notes." "Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor, told the Times Scalia should have skipped going hunting with Cheney this year." " 'A judge may have a friendship with a lawyer, and that's fine. But if the lawyer has a case before the judge, they don't socialize until it's over. That shows a proper respect for maintaining the public's confidence in the integrity of the process,' said Gillers, who is an expert on legal ethics." 2-04 Justices - U. S. Supreme Court Justices (BBC) Provides a British view of the U.S. Supreme Court members. 11-00 Justices - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, Anthony M. (Washington Post) Provides a profile of the political background of the Supreme Court Justice. 6-02 Justices - U.S. Supreme Court Justices Biographies (Supreme Court of the United States) Provides short biographies of current Justices. 6-02 Justices - U.S. Supreme Court Justices,1795 to Present (Supreme Court of the United States) Lists Supreme Court Justices and when they served. 6-02 Native Americans - Colville Confederated Tribes - Recognition by the Supreme Court (FindLaw.com) Provides a summary of a Supreme Court finding that the Colville Confederated Tribes still had a reservation, despite the sale of lands within the reservation. 9-00 O'Connor, Sandra Day - Biography (Awesome Library) Provides biographies of O'Connor. 7-05 Operations of the U.S. Supreme Court (Supreme Court of the United States) Provides information about the operation of the U.S. Supreme Court. 6-02 Pornography - Supreme Court Rulings on Obscenity (Legal Information Institute) Provides the key rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court regarding obscenity. "Click" the "plus" sign to the left of a ruling to select it. 6-00. Prisoners - Supreme Court: No "Blank Check" for Bush on U.S. Prisoners (Bloomberg.com) "The U.S. Supreme Court, denying the Bush administration a 'blank check' to fight terrorism, ruled that American citizens held as enemy combatants are entitled to assert their innocence before a neutral tribunal." " 'A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens,' Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for four of the court's members." 6-04 Prisoners - U.S. Supreme Court Rules for Guantanamo Detainees (BBC News) "The United States Supreme Court has ruled that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay can take their case that they are unlawfully imprisoned to the American courts." 8-04 Prisoners - U.S. Supreme Court: Names of Detainees Can be Kept Secret (Bloomberg.com) "The Bush administration can continue withholding the names of more than 750 people arrested following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by civil liberties groups." "The American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations said the `unprecedented secrecy' harmed efforts to learn whether the arrests were justified or the detainees were mistreated. A federal appeals court upheld the government's argument that releasing the names would interfere with the terrorism investigation." 1-04 Quotas - Supreme Court Upholds Race-Based College Admissions (Bloomberg.com) "The U.S. Supreme Court approved race- conscious college admissions, reaffirming a 25-year-old precedent and ensuring that hundreds of top universities can continue using affirmative action to bolster black and Hispanic enrolment." 6-03 Quotas - Supreme Court Upholds Race-Based College Admissions (Bloomberg.com) "The U.S. Supreme Court approved race- conscious college admissions, reaffirming a 25-year-old precedent and ensuring that hundreds of top universities can continue using affirmative action to bolster black and Hispanic enrolment." 6-03 Quotas - U.S. Supreme Court to Decide on Affirmative Action for College Students (USA Today) "About 15% of the first year Michigan law students are minorities. The Supreme Court was told that without diversity considerations, the number of minorities in a freshman class could plunge to less than .04%." Redistricting - Texas Redistricting Plan Upheld by Supreme Court (CBS News) "The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to block Texas from holding congressional elections next fall under a hard-fought new map that could cost the Democrats as many as six House seats." 1-04 School Prayer and the First Amendment (Findlaw.com) Provides the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the First Amendment of the Constitution. 2-01 Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Guns - U.S. v. Miller (Legal Information Institute) Provides the wording of the judgment from the Supreme Court. "The Constitution, as originally adopted, granted to the Congress power -- To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress. With obvious purpose to assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness of such forces, the declaration and guarantee of the Second Amendment were made. It must be interpreted and applied with that end in view." 5-00. Sentencing - Supreme Court Ends "Mandatory" Sentencing (Washington Times) "The Supreme Court yesterday voided mandatory federal sentencing guidelines, making them voluntary and saying U.S. judges could consult them before imposing penalties." 1-05 Sentencing - Supreme Court Justice Criticizes Congressional Limits on Sentencing (Bloomberg.com) "William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, said Congress should have considered the views of federal judges before setting limits on their authority to impose sentences and grant leniency." 1-04 Supreme Court Nominations - Qualifications (Historynet.com - Garrow) "The last four decades have witnessed a fundamental transformation in the types of men, and now women, who exercise the broad and untrammeled judicial power of the U.S. Supreme Court." "On today's U.S. Supreme Court, judicial activists hold all nine seats, and only the substance of a particular case, rather than the justices' over-arching principles, determines whether the court's assertiveness is pigeonholed as 'liberal' or 'conservative' by media commentators." 10-05 Voucher Systems - Supreme Court Decision (Cato Institute - Levy) Argues that voucher systems are constitutional and should be offered as an option. Discusses the Supreme Court case on vouchers of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. 2-02

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