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...after. "The lesson learned is not to go with people whose history isn't verifiable. You could end up with a shocker that you have to live with for the next 20 years," says Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for the conservative Liberty Legal Institute. Shackelford likes long-serving federal-district-court judges such as Emilio Garza of San Antonio, Texas, who has suggested he would overturn abortion rights, or Edith Jones of New Orleans, who has criticized Roe v. Wade. Plus, Shackelford says, because Garza would be the first Hispanic on the court, it would be tricky for Democrats...
...future, the best hope for journalists may be a federal shield law, now in Congress, which would let reporters keep sources confidential under any circumstances. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have shield laws, while 18 additional states have similar protections. A federal law has been proposed by Senator Richard Lugar and Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, who have signed up dozens of co-sponsors. It's not that legislators love the media. But when it comes to advancing their politics, legislators can be world-class leakers and could have as much to lose as journalists. --With reporting...
...court soon. In 2000 the court ruled 5-4 that a Nebraska ban was unconstitutional because it didn't include an exception for women whose health was endangered by pregnancy; O'Connor cast the decisive vote. On the same grounds, the federal ban has been ruled unconstitutional by three district courts, and it could find its way to the Supreme Court in the coming years. Next term the court is scheduled to hear a case involving a New Hampshire parental-notification law that was struck down because its exception for health problems was limited to cases of life-threatening pregnancies...
...Having had a taste of incarceration, there is a tremendous incentive for the defendant to avoid jurisdiction,” said Assistant District Attorney Adrienne C. Lynch, who led the prosecution during the original trial...
...spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office said it planned to appeal Quinlan’s decision for a retrial...