Word: dissenters
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...local planning agency uphold regulations barring development around Lake Tahoe. But while working for the first Bush Administration, Roberts helped persuade the Supreme Court in two cases to narrow the grounds on which environmental groups could sue the Federal Government. What has the greens most worried is a dissent filed by Roberts on a request for a rehearing by a California real estate developer in a case involving the threatened arroyo toad, protected under the Endangered Species Act. Roberts argued that the plaintiffs should at least be granted a second hearing by the full court because the Constitution's commerce...
...eating a single French fry in the Washington Metro; she claimed her Fourth Amendment and equal-protection rights had been violated, in part because, under the law, an adult would only have received a citation from the police. Roberts has also come down consistently, most recently in a dissent last week, in favor of police searches and seizures that were arguably conducted without probable cause. Still, last year he ordered the resentencing of a man who was being treated more or less as an equal partner in crime largely because he had been aware that his wife had stolen computers...
...historic standards, the Rehnquist years have been collegial, but the public arguments have grown ever fiercer in recent years. Every Justice feels entitled to pen his or her own dissent or concurring opinion to every paragraph written by the majority or the minority. It drives lower courts insane. By now, the Justices may know one another too well. Not since the 1820s has the court gone so long without getting any new blood. Of course, they know Roberts as well, though it may be his knowledge of them that proves a little unsettling. He has studied each of them closely...
...appalling image today is the direct consequence of the systematic repression of basic civil liberties by governments throughout our history. This was first done under the guise of national security. My parents' generation lost their right to vote and to criticize the government because their rulers claimed that dissent would leave the country vulnerable to India. Then repression was done in the name of Islam. My generation lost the right to romance without fear of harassment, and the ability to express ourselves in theater or dance, because our rulers claimed they were protecting us from hell itself...
...voted with the majority to end it. It was just the kind of switch that made the court's more doctrinaire conservatives nuts: "Seldom has an opinion of this court rested so obviously upon nothing but the personal views of its members," Associate Justice Antonin Scalia sniffed in a dissent. This year, though, O'Connor didn't join the majority of the court in putting an end to the death penalty for juveniles, again citing the national consensus rationale...