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Oral arguments in the case—Rumsfeld v. FAIR—were held in December. Newly-appointed Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. abstained from the decision...
...controversial posters came at a heated time during the abortion debate. Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in the case Scheidler v. National Organization for Women (NOW) that abortion clinics could not block anti-abortion protests based on the argument that the protesters were using extortion or racketeering...
...Also in late February, South Dakota passed a bill in both houses of legislature defying Roe v. Wade. The bill bans all abortions, except in cases where the abortion would save the mother’s life. It does not make any exceptions for cases of rape, incest, or non-lethal maternal health concerns. Doctors who perform abortions in the state could be fined $5,000 and sentenced to five years in prison. The bill now awaits ratification by Republican governor Mike Rounds, who is expected to sign it. If the bill becomes law the Supreme Court would likely hear...
...subject for a movie--even, and especially, a popcorn movie. If a cheapo '50s fantasy called Invasion of the Body Snatchers could also be a rich parable of conformist paranoia, and if The Matrix could clue kids into mathematics and philosophy, then a film as bold and thoughtful as V for Vendetta is allowed to stoke a multiplex debate on the use and abuse of state power. The best works of popular art get to play by their own rules...
...extended--really extended--family. As The Sopranos and Six Feet Under did, it introduces us to a world that is both bizarre and mundane. But while Big Love can be funny, it doesn't go for Desperate Housewives camp or titillation. "When we pitched the show," says Mark V. Olsen, the co-creator with Will Scheffer, "it was with the caveat that we had no interest in milking the sensational or tawdry or salacious...