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(2 of 2) antibiotics. But they vetoed corrective surgery that would have prolonged her life and left her severely retarded. Suits filed by a Vermont right-to-life attorney who had no direct interest in the case and by HHS, acting on the basis of the Baby Doe rules, were...
America's 17th chief justice assumed the bench with the hopes of uniting a fractured court and issuing opinions with one, unanimous voice. Instead, Roberts got a pileup of concurrences and dissents that often resulted in Kennedy determining the law. In the 24 decisions that came down 5-to-4...
In Kentucky's employment case ruling last week, which found the state's public pension plan not to be age discriminatory, Justice Breyer wrote the opinion joined by fellow liberals Stevens and Souter and by conservatives Roberts and Thomas. (Ginsberg joined Scalia and Alito in Kennedy's dissent.) Likewise the...
So will Roberts ever achieve the conservative court he's been looking for? The next Presidential election could provide the key, especially if a justice retires. Justice Stevens is 88 years old; Justice Ginsberg is 75; and rumors are swirling that Justice Souter, 68, might want to move on after...
Instead of rendering the Second Amendment a dormant law, the Court's ruling has given it life. "It is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct," Scalia wrote. That view aligns the Court's conservative wing with most current scholarly interpretations, says Barnett, the Georgetown...