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Ever since Robert Bork was defeated in his 1987 bid for a seat on the Supreme Court, liberals have feared that the court would turn right on the issues they care most about. And this was the year their fears finally began to be vindicated. As the first full term...
Things could have turned out a lot worse for friends of McCain-Feingold, because three justices - Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy - wanted to go farther than Roberts and Alito by reversing the 2003 decision and striking down all the statute?s restrictions on ads, including the ban on...
Not so, says Brian Kennedy, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican. "This is a warning shot across the Democrats' bow," Kennedy says. "If you allow yourselves to spend willy-nilly, you're going to run the risk of facing a veto, and our numbers demonstrate that...
Meanwhile, in another concurring opinion, Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy, sides with Roberts, but they fret about anyone construing his opinion too broadly. It's all right, they say, for schools to crack down on speech about drugs, because drugs can be a real threat to student...
Not all fellowships saw falling numbers in 2007, however. The Shorenstein Fellowship, a Kennedy School program which invites applicants to spend a semester at Harvard writing about the press and politics, did not notice a decline in applicants, according to Shorenstein Center Fellows and Programs Administrator Edith M. Holway.