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...first year Souter sided with those four on some important criminal justice cases, including one in which he ruled that the introduction at trial of a coerced confession was a "harmless error" that shouldn't automatically result in the overturning of a guilty verdict on appeal. But the next year he outraged anti-abortion forces in a pivotal case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Souter joined with Kennedy and O'Connor in a joint opinion that upheld the "essential holding" of Roe v. Wade. Though in the same decision the three justices approved most provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control...
...most learning happens when you’re able to make mistakes and see where they lead you. I started working in the shop in the Loeb not knowing what a screw gun did and went from there,” she explains.Laubacher’s trial-and-error philosophy allows for mistakes, guesswork, and creative intuition, as well as a great deal of collaboration. The set for “Sweeney Todd” is closest to her heart because its versatile and striking design was produced by group effort. “In a really profound...
What impact is the trial of Charles Taylor having on Liberia's prospects for peace and stability? Jeremy Waiser FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
...director of admissions, explains. “It’s a process of gathering widely and sort of winnowing as comparisons occur over a ten week process,” she says.The area subcommittee chair advocates for the applicant, “as if he were at a trial and he were the student’s attorney, in a sense,” says Fitzsimmons, the dean of admissions. In the more widely-known part of the process, admissions officers create a reader sheet for each application, which rate the student on their academics and extracurriculars.After the subcommittee...
...reliable Republican vote and isn't likely to be much more dependable for Democrats. He played a pivotal role in defeating the Supreme Court nomination of conservative icon Robert Bork in 1987 and famously invoked Scottish law to vote "not proved," therefore not guilty, in Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. Yet Democrats should not forget that he voted for George W. Bush's tax cuts and Supreme Court nominees and the Iraq invasion...