Category Archives: Supreme Court

Why does it take tragedy to unify us?

By doris | Published: January 12, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Why does it always seem to take something like this to move us, however briefly, toward civility and mutual understanding? Why is it usually in the worst of times that we step back, lower our voices and look for our common humanity? The carnage in Arizona has stopped America [...]

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Clinton: GOP ‘banking on you not thinking’

By doris | Published: October 24, 2010

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com BALTIMORE — Former President Bill Clinton thinks that voters need to pay attention to the facts like they pay attention to their sports. “When we care about something that’s really important to us, like football or basketball or the World Series — some life or death deal like that,” he said [...]

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House Dems reach deal on campaign spending

By doris | Published: June 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – House Democrats reached a compromise that would exempt the National Rifle Association and other large organizations from proposed campaign finance disclosure rules aimed primarily at large corporations, sources said Monday. The deal paves the way for a House vote as soon as this week on the legislation, which is [...]

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Flood of outside money hits the primaries

By doris | Published: May 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com I know it takes money to get elected, but why does it take millions to do this. All that money could be used for people who has no home. Put money they have taken out of Social Security and never put back. It is just they should put some of that [...]

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NBC: Obama to name Kagan for high court

By doris | Published: May 10, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, positioning the court to have three female justices for the first time, NBC News reported late Sunday. Kagan served as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009. She was widely viewed as a [...]

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Senators signal bruising confirmation battle on Supreme Court nominee

By doris | Published: April 12, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Two leading senators on the Judiciary Committee, which will consider President Obama’s upcoming Supreme Court nominee, signaled Sunday that a bruising fight is likely. Committee chairman Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vermont, called the current conservative-leaning Supreme Court the most activist he had seen, while ranking Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions [...]

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EPA: Greenhouse gases a public health threat

By doris | Published: December 9, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said Monday. “The overwhelming amount of scientific studies show that the threat is real,” she said. The announcement stems from a Supreme Court ruling which ordered the agency to determine the impact of [...]

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High court to decide if war memorial violates Constitution

By doris | Published: October 6, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com And if you don’t look too closely, you’re likely to zip right past the focus of a hotly contested Supreme Court battle. A federal judge has ordered the Mojave Cross, a war memorial erected by a veterans group 75 years ago, to be covered. It’s boxed in plywood. The issue is [...]

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Sotomayor sworn in as Supreme Court justice

By doris | Published: August 9, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in Saturday as the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice and only third female member in the top U.S. court’s 220-year history. She is President Barack Obama’s first appointment to the influential court, which has shaped many of the country’s laws on polarizing issues like abortion [...]

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Sotomayor speeds toward confirmation

By doris | Published: July 17, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Sonia Sotomayor sped toward confirmation as the nation’s first Hispanic justice Thursday, encouraged by Republican promises of a quick vote and cheered on by a Democratic senator’s challenge to take on the Supreme Court’s conservative wing when she arrives. “Battle out the ideas that you believe in, because I [...]

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Supreme Court asked to block Chrysler sale to Fiat

By doris | Published: June 7, 2009

Full Story At News.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Three Indiana state pension and construction funds want the Supreme Court to block Chrysler’s sale to Fiat so they can pursue an appeal in hopes of getting a better deal. The funds filed emergency papers at the high court early Sunday. An appeals court in New York approved the [...]

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Supreme Court asked to weigh in on detainee photos

By doris | Published: May 30, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Justice Department lawyers late Thursday told a federal appeals court in New York — the same one on which high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sits — to hold off a ruling ordering release of the material, saying they plan to ask the justices to hear their case. The government said it [...]

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