See all Swift Boat Watch entries here. Who They Are: Judicial Confirmation Network Purpose: The group supports conservative nominees to the Supreme Court. In this election, they oppose Barack Obama. President: Gary Marx, former coalitions director for Bush-Cheney 2004 and Mitt Romney. Funding: The group is a registered 501(c)4, funded through ...

Sarah Palin striking out on Supreme Court cases she doesn't like, other than the old faithful Roe v. Wade, is painful television. Joe Biden's answers to the same set of questions from Katie Couric seemed odd for a different reason. Biden said he supports Roe, “Because I think it’s as close to a consensus that can exist in a society as ...

Dahlia, when you're right, you're right; just walking around with a uterus is enough to get you committed in the court of public opinion, so why perpetuate the whole woman-scorned stereotype with self-destructive, Bat-lady behavior? Yes, rage is its own (and only) reward. But Medea never gets a night off; crazy is a full-time job.   I do ...

Right at this moment, the Supreme Court is not an issue in the campaign, although partisans on both sides will no doubt keep trying to make it one as we get closer to November.  One reason the court is not an issue right now is that the chief justice has done a superb job of lowering the court's profile. It's hard to get the nation ...

Hi, Orin, the Supreme Court's role is modest on some fronts, yes—I agree that deciding that child rapists can't be executed is not of the same order as upholding the death penalty in the first place. Or that outlawing one method of late-term abortion isn't up there with Roe. But in other areas, the court looks bigger to me, and the disagreements ...

In holding that the reach of the Constitution is to be measured functionally, not formally, a majority in Boumediene resolves a question previously muddled by plurality opinions.   Whether U.S. agents must adhere to the U.S. Constitution when acting outside U.S. territory is a question various courts have answered in different ways. As ...

David, you're right: Kennedy's opinion in Boumediene calls Congress out. Hey, you want to suspend habeas, go ahead, but we're not going to let you back into it by mumbling about jurisdiction-stripping. Which makes it striking that in the opening of his dissent, Chief Justice Roberts attacks by asserting that ''this decision is not ...

This just in via SCOTUSblog—the Supreme Court decided today in a 5-4 opinion that detainees at Guantanamo Bay could bring petitions for habeas corpus in federal district court. As Jeff Toobin just said on CNN, this marks the third time (more if you count each individual opinion) that the Supreme Court has taken the Bush administration to the ...

Like many corporate law and business law decisions, yesterday's Supreme Court decision in Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders was virtually ignored by the media and blogosphere. Neither the New York Times, Washington Post, nor even the Wall Street Journal even mentioned it in their daily dispatches, choosing to focus ...

I know I am not an American citizen in the eyes of the powers that be. With these words the story of a historic New Orleans neighborhood comes full circle. It was in this neighborhood that even before the Civil War hommes de couleur libré—free people of color—led lives of style and culture. It was in this neighborhood that fiery journalists ...