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...Souter explained. When asked about the role of judges, Souter said their job is “making the law” in the sense that they must decide the answers to questions the legislative branch did not account for at the time of a given statute??s passing.One of the few Supreme Court justices to step down from the bench while in good health, Souter said that he plans to undertake a variety of part-time jobs, such as returning to the First Circuit in Boston, where he spent just one day hearing cases before starting...
...justice over the past 14 years,” Goldstone said in an interview yesterday. According to Fanton, Goldstone has been central to those advances. Fanton said that because of the successes of the Rwanda and Yugoslavia tribunals, “the world community became comfortable with the Rome Statute??—the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty. Now retired from the international justice system, Goldstone is a visiting professor at several American universities. “We hope students are learning, and lord knows I’ve learned from...
According to the Globe, President Ronald Reagan began the practice in the mid-1980s in order to increase executive authority. Since courts often look at a statute??s history to divine Congressional intent, Reagan reasoned that noting his thoughts on the law’s meaning could increase presidential influence over court rulings...
Gross acknowledged that a California statute??The Uniform Trade Secrets Act—makes it illegal to disclose information if one knows or has reason to know that the information one is disclosing is a trade secret...
...panel ruled “the government has failed to proffer a shred of evidence” that the Solomon Amendment enhances national security, a prerequisite for the statute??s constitutionality. If anything, the panel argued, the policy “generate[s] ill will toward the military” and “actually impedes recruitment...