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...society of nine people, such relationships are key. In the now famous Virginia v. Black case, the usually quiet Justice Clarence Thomas spoke out passionately against cross-burning, helping push the whole court to find a new area of constitutionally unprotected speech. In a case from this term, an impassioned argument by the court's only woman, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seemed to sway the court to rule that the strip search of a 13-year-old girl violated her Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search. "Sometimes one person counts for more than one vote on the court," says Yale...
...five conservatives overturned the decision Sotomayor helped author while on the Second Circuit. That lower court had decided not to hear allegations of reverse discrimination brought by firefighters who claimed the city of New Haven had violated their civil rights by throwing out promotion-test results because no black candidates had passed. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
...children's rights defenders collected testimony from 33 minors, including a child identified merely as "Ezzat H.," who described a "soldier wearing black sunglasses [who] came into the room where I was held and pointed his rifle at me. The rifle barrel was a few centimeters from my face. I was so terrified that I started to shiver. He made fun of me and said: 'Shivering? Tell me where the [father's hidden] pistol is before I shoot you.' " According to the report, Ezzat was 10 years old at the time. TIME asked the IDF to comment on the specific...
...felt the idea was “too cool not to do it.” Now, it’s a fully-fledged, touring, interactive art project: Passerby contribute questions via notecards and Monsarrat answers them on the back, displaying the cards on a black cylinder for the world to read. The mastermind behind the project estimates he’s received 2,000 queries at this point, and was quick to note that this bests postsecret.com. More questions after the jump...
...that security measures required by the Secret Service have become stricter since 9/11 and would cause significant delays for parishioners - and at significant cost to taxpayers - on Sunday mornings. Given Obama's popularity within the African-American community, the President also worried that if he chose a local black congregation, church members would find themselves competing with sightseers for space in the pews...