…at the time (he was only 43 years old when confirmed to the Supreme Court) still sits upon the Court over 30 years later. Of course, that same scenario played…

…Wade. It is a good read and his points are opposing the court’s stance. The brazenly political Supreme Court takes away the right to abortion – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)…

…one that the Court would decide, because, well, that was the issue that the lower appellate court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, decided. The issue is whether under the…

by reader ilsm GAO is describing personal services in this quote “”Contractors are generally not subject to the same ethics rules as government employees even when they are collocated and…

by Linda Beale The Countermajoritarian Difficulty and Congressional Ethics–Ending the Shutdown [Edited to add Marcotte article on role of fundamentalism in Tea Party politics.] We have seen congressional ethics probes…

…useful to future patients. But this rationale is utterly rejected as ethically unacceptable, because it was used to justify depraved experiments. I think the current discussion of the ethics of…

…or fighting back in court, citing federal legal protections. Donald Sherman, executive director and chief counsel of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), said in a statement, “by…

…“Americans look for Supreme Court to restrain federal power, not expand it,” suggested, at least to me, that this conservative Republican senator was calling for the Court to rule in…

…and consumers. Only once in American history, during the Warren Court, from 1954-1969, and especially from 1962-1969, was there a liberal majority on the high court and its decisions were…

…such activities should include in every report of this sort, going forward: The Supreme Court annually receives about 9,000 petitions, known as certiorari petitions, requesting the Court’s review of lower…