(updated 13 January 2003)
News and Notes of Interest
to Those Who Are Interested
(updated 13 January 2003)
From time to time, the world lays before us items for which we did not plan. When this happens, or when things of potential interest to those enrolled in this class arise, I will note them on this page. Check it regularly for grins and insights.
Justice Scalia speaks on
Church-State Relations:
The
New York Times (AP), 13 January 2003
The
Fredricksburg Free-Lance Star, 13 January 2003
Bush White House Ablaze with
Christmas Thoughts of Replacing Chief Justice Rehnquist
- Neil
Lewis, New York Times, 26 December 2002
- CNN,
27 December 2002
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U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) celebrates his 100th birthday. He's the longest-serving senator ever -- though he is about to retire -- and his life experiences run the gamut of recent American history. Along the way he's courted controversy. NPR's Bob Edwards has Thurmond's story. (Morning Edition, 5 December 2002) |
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Linda Greenhouse on the long (albeit, deceased) arm of Justice Lewis Powell, The New York Times, 4 December
An Oldie, but a goodie.... Northeastern perceptions of Texas, through the eyes of federal district court judge Sam Kent. Smith v. Colonial Penn Insurance Company (1996)
Anonymous Jury Use on the Rise, The New York Times, 18 November 2002
Democrats May Stall Bush Judicial Nominees. The Republican victory in last week's congressional election is expected to improve President Bush's ability to get his judicial nominees confirmed. But Democrats plan to put obstacles in his way. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports. Morning Edition, NPR, 11 November 2002.
Cass Sunstein on the effect of the recent elections on the federal courts, New York Times, 9 November 2002.
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Bush Administration "Secret" Deportation Hearings, New York Times, 9 October
Clarence Thomas, Ten Years On, Washington Post Magazine, 7 October 2002
Justice Scalia, Catholic
Doctrine, and the Death Penalty
- Scalia's thoughts, First
Things, May 2002
- Sean Wilentz, New York Times, 8 July 2002
- Laurence Tribe on Wilentz, Jurist
Forum
Bush's nomination of Miguel
Estrada to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Curcuit.
- "Battle Brews...," New
York Times, 24 September
- Nina Totenberg,
"The Questions about Estrada," Morning Edition, 26
September
- New
York Times coverage of the hearings of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, 27 September
- Washington
Post on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, 27 September
- Nina
Totenberg on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, All Things
Considered, 26 September
- Alberto
R. Gonzales, "No More Stalling," The Washington Post,
26 September
- Bob
Herbert, "The Right Judge?" New York Times, 26
September
Federal death penalty statute struck down by a district court, New York Times, 25 September
News piece on the ever interesting Justice Scalia, USA Today, 18 September
Senate Judiciary hearing on
the nomination of Michael McConnell to the federal appellate bench.
- "All Things Considered," NPR,
18 September
- New
York Times, 18 September
- The hearings, New
York Times, 19 September
The Administrations
"Secret" Immigration hearings policy challenged by a federal
District Court
- Washington
Post, 18 September
- New
York Times, 18 September
- "Morning Edition," NPR,
18 September
White House Executive
Order establishing military tribunals, 13 November 2001
- what to do with Ramzi bin al-Shibh, New
York Times, 17 Sept 2002
The Ring (2002) decision and confusion in capital punishment litigation, New York Times, 16 September 2002.
Terrorism, Wiretaps, and
Governmental Surveillance Creep... "Congress Criticizes F.B.I.
and Justice Department Over Actions Before Secret Wiretap Court,"
Philip Shenon, The
New York Times, 11 September 2002.
The Highest Court in the
Land, AP
Wire/Nexis, Findlaw,
3 September 2002
Justices Stevens, Breyer, and
Ginsburg question the constitutionality of the death penalty for minors, New
York Times, 29 August 2002.
Linda Greenhouse on the battles on the Supreme Court over its "proper role," New York Times, 7 July 2002.
The Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals strikes public school recitation of the "Pledge of Allegience"
as unconstitutional, 26 June.
MSNBC
NPR (I)
The New York Times
CNN
NPR (II)
The
New York Times, 27 June
NPR,
27 June
Justice Scalia, his job, his
church, and the death penalty, National
Public Radio, Nina Totenberg, "Morning Edition," 24
June.
Chief Justice Tony? Washington
Post, 17 June.
A federal court strikes down
internet "filtering" law, MSNBC,
31 May.
Series on Secrecy in the Bush
White House, Morning Edition, 14 & 15 May, Nina Totenburg, National
Public Radio. (part
I) (part
II)
The Bush Administration and
the Second Amendment, NYT,
8 May 2002
The War on Terrorism, the
Constitution, and Civil Liberties, NYT,
6 May 2002
The Supremes Enter the Home
Stretch: Cases Outstanding
and Questions of
Retirements, MSNBC, 3 May
Justice Ginsburg brings the world the thoughts of Malvina Harlan, wife of the first Justice Harlan, 2 May, NPR
Assisted Suicide, Individual
Rights, and Federal Intervention
District Court blocks Ashcroft attempt to stymie Oregon law, New
York Times, 18 April
Former Justice Byron White
dies at 84
New
York Times, 16 April
Washington
Post, 16 April
MSNBC,
15 April 2002
The
New York Times (AP story), 15 April 2002
Libraries and Filtering:
Restrictions on Web Access Go to Court
The
New York Times, 25 March 2002
NPR, Morning
Edition, 25 March 2002
Roy Moore, Chief Justice of
the Alabama state Supreme Court, calls homosexuality an "inherent
evil" in a case involving child custody, NPR,
5 March.
NPR
story on the History of Civil Liberties in times of crisis, Morning
Edition, 27 February.
Supremes deny certiorari
to "Voyeur Dorm" website appeal, Findlaw/Reuters,
25 February.
Supremes deny certiorari
to Indiana "Ten Commandments" case, Findlaw/Reuters,
25 February.
- MSNBC,
25 February.
- Elkhart
v. Books, 00-1407 (2001), cert. denied
More
Foxy News!
-Loyal readers of this page (see "Sly as a Fox" below) know that a
while ago a fox nearly secreted his/her way into the Supreme Court, deprived
only of his/her 4th Amendment rights by a surveillance camera. In her
weekly Q&A about matters at the Court, Linda Greenhouse of The New
York Times (24 February) once again took up the case.
Since we are talking now
about the dawn of the "modern" Court, take a gander at John
Dean's The Rehnquist Choice.
Senate Confirmation Battles
Over Bush Judicial Nominees (In re Pickering), Milwaukee
Sentinel,
6 February 2002
Justice Scalia says Pope and
Church Wrong on Death Penalty, AP,
5 February 2002
NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg previews First Monday, a television drama about the U.S. Supreme Court that premiers tonight on CBS. (4:08) "Morning Edition," 15 January.