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After graduating from HLS, Roberts headed inside the beltway. He clerked for William H. Rehnquist, who was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court at the time. Following his clerkship, Roberts went on to work in the offices of the Attorney General and the White House Counsel. He also served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General under Kenneth W. Starr in the first Bush Administration...
...opposing racial preferences when the Bush Administration filed it in the landmark 2003 case involving affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School. "There are a lot of pro-family, pro-life groups that would probably be quite unhappy if he were the pick," says Jan LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America. But in a piece two weeks ago in which he accurately predicted that O'Connor, not Rehnquist, would be the first to step down, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, one of Washington's best-connected conservatives, also predicted that Bush would appoint Gonzales and might...
...state residents too. So states crafted rules that aren't based on residency. To qualify for in-state rates at public colleges in Kansas, for example, you must spend three years in the state's high schools. University of Missouri--Kansas City law professor Kris Kobach, counsel for 24 out-of-state students challenging the law, says this still violates the federal statute as well as the Constitution's equal-protection clause by "discriminating against U.S. citizens." Says plaintiff Heidi Hydeman, an Iowan who paid out-of-state fees (now $12,691 a year, vs. $4,737 in-state...
...Cooper case evolved from an investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who set out to identify the unnamed Bush Administration sources cited by journalist Robert Novak in a July 2003 column that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame. Cooper subsequently wrote a piece for TIME's website saying that "some government officials" had provided him with information similar to what Novak had reported. Cooper suggested in his article that the sources were seeking to discredit Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who found evidence contradicting the Administration's prewar claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa for nuclear weapons...
...continue to be more severely restricted, at least until another member of the moderate-to-liberal wing departs the bench. In just the past three years, the court has ruled out capital punishment for the mentally retarded and juveniles while overturning a few death sentences because of incompetent legal counsel or racial bias in jury selection. Later this year, the court is scheduled to hear a much anticipated case concerning whether a Tennessee man on death row for the past 19 years can win a new trial because of fresh DNA evidence that may exonerate him. "These nagging questions...