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...Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...
...Samuel P. Jacobs contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...
...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 with both Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito came to a close, it became increasingly clear that in the post--Sandra Day O'Connor era, the center of the court has shifted several degrees to the right. Both Alito and Anthony Kennedy, who has emerged as the new swing Justice, are more conservative than O'Connor was on some key issues that...
...Democrats win the presidency in 2008, the clash between a more conservative Supreme Court and a more liberal White House and Congress might reach historic proportions. "You could have significant conflict between the court and the political branches, one that we probably haven't seen since the 1930s," Samuel Issacharoff of the New York University School of Law has suggested. Yet throughout American history, the President and Congress have gotten angry at the court only when it frustrated the will of a large national majority. In many cases in which the Roberts Court is turning right, it appears to have...
...Joined by Justice Samuel Alito, Roberts says the organization's ads could reasonably be seen as opposing the practice of filibustering, rather than the candidacy of Feingold, so they therefore past constitutional muster. (Wisconsin Right to Life won't use the old ads, obviously, but at least now it knows what it can say in new ones.) It's only when an ad is "susceptible of no reasonable interpretation other than as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candidate" that McCain-Feingold kicks in, Roberts says...