Word: legalism
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...book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin proves again that he is one of the sharpest court watchers in America. Based on rare interviews with the Justices, Toobin, the legal correspondent for CNN and The New Yorker, traces the extreme rightward turn that the high court has taken under George W. Bush. Yes, Virginia: the Supreme Court reads the election returns. TIME's publishing reporter, Andrea Sachs, caught up with Toobin just as his book hit the shelves...
...like umpires; they just call balls and strikes. No. They make the rules. They are the commissioners of baseball. In fact, they are more like Abner Doubleday than an umpire. Deciding whether race can be used in college admissions, deciding whether states can ban abortion: those are not purely legal judgments. Those are political judgments, and the views of the Justices matter more than the Court precedents on questions like that...
...subsidiary of Planned Parenthood's local branch. Still, in August, the city routinely issued a temporary permit allowing the $7.5 million clinic to open on Sept. 18 with just two relatively minor provisions: install more exit signs, as well as glass at service counters. There seemed to be little legal questions about it at the time: It is normal for commercial concerns to use subsidiaries to conduct business and set up offices...
...while Madeleine's Fund is being used to help find the missing girl, it can't help her parents fight their legal battle. After the Fund directors decided last week not to pay for the family's legal costs - making it clear that the McCanns never asked for money from the fund - relatives said they would sell their homes to pay the McCanns' legal bills. So Virgin Group head Richard Branson stepped in, announcing that he would donate $200,000 to "kick-start a legal fund" for the McCanns, says his spokeswoman, Jackie McQuillan. "If other businessmen and women also...
...Good timing. Changes to Portugal's secrecy laws over the weekend give suspects and third parties - who were previously not allowed to know the details of a police investigation - greater access to case files, meaning the McCanns' legal team could get hold of the 4,000-page police file on Madeleine's parents sooner than anticipated. So far, the McCanns' lawyers haven't had much to work with. But reports that they got in touch with lawyers for a man in Wisconsin who, in defending their client against murder charges, are challenging evidence uncovered by sniffer dogs...