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Can We Get an Atheist on the Supreme Court?
2 hours ago ago from Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
The current Supreme Court consists of: 6 Catholics 2 Jews 1 Protestant And if Justice John Paul Stevens retires next year he probably will the sole Protestant would be gone. Dahlia Lithwick at Slate asks why it's uncouth to talk about the religious makeup of the Supreme Court : We talk about the need for race and gender diversity on the court in brave, sweeping pronouncements: The court needs more women, we say, or ...
Related contentAs Last Protestant Leaves, Religion Seems Moot On Supreme Court
5 hours ago ago from The Crime Report
When Justice John Paul Stevens retires, there will be no Protestant left on the Supreme Court, notes Slate. Will President Obama be pressured to appoint one? Popular opinion once held that even one Catholic was too many on the court. Today there are six. But would anyone even notice if Obama appointed a seventh to replace Stevens? There once was an outright religious litmus test for Supreme Court appointees. Today religion is almost ...
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4 hours ago ago from the Tunnel Wall
By Andrew C. McCarthy "In sum, by moving the case to civilian court this far into the process, the Obama administration sinks down the drain the years of work that went into pretrial litigation in the military court work that cost taxpayers untold millions of dollars. That is, despite that talk about avoiding delay, the administration has gratuitously saddled the public with years of wasted effort, years of extra work, and mountains of extra ...
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32 minutes ago ago from Pottstown's Blog
This isn't a post about whether religion is being airbrushed out of the holidays. This is a post about an article I read in Slate magazine about the make-up of the Supreme Court. I was surprised when I read that there were 6 Catholic Justices, 2 Jews and 1 Protestant that made up the group. And if Supreme Court Justice Stevens leaves, then Obama could appoint another Catholic! That would be 7 Catholics and 2 Jews. That isn't supposed to ...
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4 hours ago ago from NEWS and SOURCES
The American Civil Liberties Union will be in federal appeals court in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 15 at 10:00 a.m. PST to argue that a lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen DataPlan Inc. for its role in the Bush administration's unlawful extraordinary rendition program should go forward. The government has repeatedly misused the state secrets privilege in an attempt to have the case thrown out. To this day, not a single victim of ...
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COMMENTARY: Will federal government become more open? Jury still out
21 hours ago ago from Media General - SCNow.com
Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This COMMENTARY: Will federal government become more open? Jury still out By Gene Policinski, First Amendment Center Published: December 10, 2009 We're either on the verge of a new era in transparency in the federal government or we're not. On just his first ...
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2 hours ago ago from Media General - Turnto10.com
Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This State Supreme Court affirms murder conviction The Associated Press Published: December 11, 2009 PROVIDENCE Rhode Island's highest court has affirmed a murder conviction stemming from a shooting outside a Providence nightclub. Pedro Muriel Reyes is ...
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23 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
LOS ANGELES A hearing that could decide the fate of Roman Polanski's long-delayed sex case has ended without a ruling by a California appeals court. The three justices listened to more than an hour of arguments Thursday from attorneys for Polanski, his victim and prosecutors. The judges peppered each attorney with questions challenging their arguments. Polanski's attorneys asked that the criminal case against the "Chinatown" director be ...
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