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...Justices Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens dissented, citing previous rulings enforcing the strict separation of church and state. Justice Breyer, who generally joins Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens in opposition to the majority?s more conservative rulings, abandoned his usual post and cast his lot with Justices Scalia, Thomas, O?Connor, Kennedy and Rehnquist...
...this case. Gail Atwater, who was returning from a soccer practice with her two young children, claimed Texas police violated her Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure when they arrested her in 1997 after noticing that none of the trio was wearing a seat belt. Justices Souter, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy and Rehnquist ruled against Atwater, stating that while "the arrest and booking were inconvenient to Atwater, they were not so extraordinary as to violate the Fourth Amendment." Interestingly, everyone on the Court agreed with Atwater and her lawyer that the policeman in this situation went overboard - cuffing...
...noteworthy characteristic of Tuesday's ruling struck Bloom immediately. "What's particularly interesting about today's decision is that it was written by David Souter, one of the Justices who usually rules in favor of individual rights," says Bloom. Souter's customary cohorts, Justices Ginsburg, Stevens and Breyer, were joined by Justice O'Connor in the dissent...
...Court's strongly worded opinion, "unambiguously bars cost considerations" from the establishment of air standards, "and thus ends the matter for us as well as the EPA." The opinion, as it goes on, leaves little doubt as to the intensity of the Court's convictions. Justices Breyer, Stevens, Souter and Thomas each concurred with the opinion, adding their own sharp language...
...right voices an equally loud warning: "No more Souters!"--a reference to Bush's father's nomination of David Souter, who often votes with the more liberal Justices. "He was an abysmal mistake," says Tom Jipping, head of the Free Congress Foundation's legal arm. Conservative columnist Robert Novak wrote critically of Souter just last week, sending an unmistakable signal to the White House. Groups on both sides of the issue will want to know--as explicitly as possible--where any nominee stands on abortion...