The US Supreme court Tuesday ordered to vacate the 11th Circuit court of Appeals ruling upholding convictions of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy for honest services fraud.
Archive for June, 2010
Rebecca Abrahams: Supreme Court Vacates Siegelman Conviction
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010High Court Passes on Campaign Finance Case « Liveshots
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Over the objections of three justices, the Supreme court announced Tuesday it will not review a.
Supreme Court Affirms Ruling on 'Soft Money' Ban – The Caucus Blog …
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010The Supreme court on Tuesday affirmed without comment a ruling upholding a ban on so-called soft-money contributions to political parties.
Chris Weigant: Supreme Court Helps Out Kagan
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010The Supreme court has yanked the rug out from under the argument that Kagan shouldn’t have had the option to bar military recruiters from campus while dean of Harvard law school. Today’s ruling affirms that right for universities.
Social nets wrap on the Supreme Court: Elena Kagan hearing and 2nd …
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Confirmation hearings begin for Elena Kagan and politicians react to the Supreme court ruling on handguns.
Ben Berkon: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Instituting …
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010I wouldn’t be fulfilling my duty as a Supreme court Justice if I didn’t seriously consider the necessity of freely arming citizens with a dual anti-personnel/medieval warfare weapons.
Carlos A. Ball: The Supreme Court Gets it Right on Gay Rights
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010A religious organization is not entitled to government subsidies when its beliefs are inconsistent with basic antidiscrimination principles.
High Court's Big Ruling For Gun Rights « Liveshots
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010In its second major ruling on gun rights in three years, the Supreme court Monday extended the.
Joanne Bamberger: All Eyes on the Supreme Court
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Have these justices ever hung out in their Supreme court neighborhood or other Washington, DC inner city neighborhoods after dark? Because if they’ve spent even the a little time doing that, their view of guns might be a different.
The American Conservative » High Court Drama
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010The next Supreme court justice, the woman of whose judicial philosophy we know so little, must sit in silence while members of the committee grandstand around her. Some other notes from Foster’s live-blogging of the hearing: “Feinstein …