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...Miers' refusal to comply with the subpoena and appear at this hearing, and to answer questions and provide relevant documents regarding these concerns, cannot be properly justified on executive privilege or related immunity ground," Sanchez said of her ruling, which was upheld along party lines. Such a decision is the first step towards bringing potential contempt charges against Miers, which would eventually have to be voted on by the full committee followed by the entire House - and then actually prosecuted by, who else, the Justice Department. No timeline has yet been set as to when - or if - such a step...
Think about the issues in which the center of the court, defined by Kennedy, is now more conservative than it was with O'Connor. The federal ban on partial-birth abortion? Polls consistently show overwhelming support for it. Affirmative action? After the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative-action plan in 2003, Michigan voters repudiated it in a referendum. "Any court on which Justice Kennedy is the median voter will never do anything to provoke dramatic backlashes," says Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia School of Law, "because Justice Kennedy has his finger...
...DePaul University assistant professor who publicly accused Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz of plagiarism in a 2005 appearance at Harvard Law School has received notification that he will be denied tenure in a decision upheld by his institution’s top official, according to a press release by the Chicago university...
...after 9/11 likes to conduct public business in private. He fought off the General Accounting Office when it sought the names of oil, coal and utility lobbyists with whom Cheney had met privately to discuss the energy policy that he was fashioning for the Bush Administration - a practice ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court...
...Because the Supreme Court outcomes were different. One involved a recently-installed display in a Kentucky courthouse, and the other was about a monument that had been outside the state capital in Texas for 40 years. The Court struck down the courthouse display and upheld the Texas monument. Both decisions were five-to-four, and Justice Stephen Breyer, who was my administrative law professor at Harvard, was the swing vote. It baffled me, but I finally boiled it down to a philosophy of 'if it's old and outside, it's okay, and if it's new and inside...