…Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday criticized another member of the high court for failing to understand the consequences of an order issued last year allowing immigration enforcement sweeps…

…honor. So I sympathize with the sentiment of the members of Congress who voted to enact the Stolen Valor Act, signed into law in 2006, which criminalizes the false representation…

…“I thought for sure that being able to go testify truthfully in court that I should be protected,” he said in an interview on the Supreme Court steps after Monday’s…

…to the Court’s earlier decision in American Trucking as involving an effort by EPA to smuggle cost considerations into the statute. But that’s exactly backwards: it was industry that argued…

…sense, but it underpins much of Tea Party/Supreme Court libertarianism, if only ostensibly. One of the most stunning sentences I’ve ever read in a Supreme Court opinion, a sentence that…

…overtly political cases currently before the Court, whose clear purpose is simply to skew elections to Republicans—and which now are deadlocked 4-4, and which the Court, rather than affirming by…

…start pounding during these final weeks of campaigning. It is the real court packing that has been happening. Note in this presentation the Republican Congress men that signed court briefs…

…we’ll promote it to here. UPDATE: R.I.P., Clarence Clemons. QOTD from Walter Jon Williams: Young folks may be shocked to discover that Clarence Clemons had a band before Lady Gaga….

…fascism That brings to mind this piece in the NY Times in 2004, or this one in the Chicago Tribune by Pullitzer Prize winner Clarence Page: Harvard law professor Lani…

…last year limiting the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases and address climate change. Justice Clarence Thomas suggests he would be interested in curbing the EPA’s authority even further. “Wetlands…