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...land. The book reveals Clarence Thomas--often seen as Antonin Scalia's understudy--to be a surprisingly forceful conservative voice on the court who sways Scalia rather than the other way around and who pushes more moderate Justices leftward in reaction. Greenburg also shows that when William Rehnquist fell ill but didn't step down, Sandra Day O'Connor was effectively forced to resign early to avoid the possibility of a double vacancy on the court. O'Connor, who snipes with Scalia in the book, is frank about the court's infamous Bush v. Gore ruling: "Given more time...
...Senate and be a team player with their colleagues. And that?s a tricky balance. Even while proposing lots of bills to combat spending, McCain late last year proposed $2 million to create a center at an Arizona law school in honor of former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, which some have derided as pork. Frist has recently been attacking the growth of spending in Washington, but as the Majority Leader of the Senate for the last three years, he?s been a critical player in getting bills like the Medicare prescription drug plan passed, much to the chagrin...
...York State law capping the number of hours that bakers could work. More than three decades later, when the Supreme Court nullified part of the New Deal legislation in the 1936 case of United States v. Butler, it did so on a 5-4 vote as well. Many of Rehnquist Court’s rulings that invalidated federal laws also passed by 5-4 margins, including the 1995 decision in United States v. Lopez that struck down the popular Gun-Free School Zones...
...After Chief Justice John Roberts joined Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in a minority dissent in last week's decision upholding Oregon's right to enact a law legalizing doctor assisted suicide, court watchers now believe Roberts will be every bit as conservative as his predecessor, Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Which means Alito's replacement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has the potential to move the court dramatically to the right. Unfortunately for Democrats, the argument that Bush would soon move the Supreme Court in that direction didn't help them in the 2004 election...
...subsidized facilities in a housing market they frankly cannot afford. The tenants don’t own the property and have no standing to whine about walking an extra block to the bus. Or anything really.7. Tactless law professors. Closely following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz decided to pen a vicious piece calling the late Justice a “Republican thug” and accusing him of participating in bigoted acts like “heil-Hitlering” in front of Jewish students while at law school. This story...