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...issues have divided the nation as sharply in the past 13 years as Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision affirming women's constitutional right to abortion. Last week it became apparent that states' efforts to regulate abortion are having an equally divisive effect on the high court. In overturning a Pennsylvania law designed to discourage women from seeking abortions, Justice Harry Blackmun and four colleagues ringingly reaffirmed the court's 1973 landmark ruling. But four dissenters, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, sharply questioned the ever widening scope of Roe and subsequent decisions. If states cannot impose some limits...
...direct interest in the case and by HHS, acting on the basis of the Baby Doe rules, were dismissed. Ultimately, the American Hospital Association and other groups sued to challenge the validity of the regulations and end what they considered harassment. This suit was subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court. Writing for four of the Justices,* Justice John Paul Stevens noted that federal law ''does not authorize the Secretary (of HHS) to give unsolicited advice either to parents, to hospitals or to state officials who are faced with difficult treatment decisions concerning handicapped children.'' To the court's knowledge...
...adding new names to the scandal has been growing exponentially since the former investment wunderkind began to cooperate fully with Sorkin and Giuliani about three weeks ago. To settle charges filed by the SEC, Levine has been forced to disgorge $11.5 million--virtually all his wealth--to the court, and is barred from the securities business for the rest of his life. He still faces sentencing on July 9 on criminal charges. Levine could receive 20 years in prison and a $610,000 fine. But if he helps Giuliani to apprehend new suspects, the sentencing judge is more likely...
...half years later, Hamdan is still on Guantánamo, but Swift's prediction has proved correct. Hamdan is certainly famous. Not only was this Yemeni man, a former driver for Osama bin Laden with a fourth-grade education, at the center of what is perhaps the Supreme Court's most important decision on presidential power ever, he is now the first defendant in America's first war-crimes trials since World War II. Hamdan, in his late 30s, stands accused of providing material support for terrorism and conspiracy. If convicted, he could face life in prison...
...spring of 2006, Hamdan's lawsuit, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, reached the Supreme Court. The justices handed Hamdan a sweeping victory, with the majority finding that the President's military tribunals were unlawful. But Hamdan's odyssey didn't end there. Rather than offer Hamdan a reduced sentence, the Administration redoubled its efforts, pressing Congress to authorize the military tribunals, which it did by passing the Military Commissions Act during the waning days of the Republican Congress in the fall of 2006. Hamdan was recharged under the Military Commissions Act and moved into a new maximum-security facility. There...