The Providence Journal has an interesting piece today on Justice Scalia’s judicial philosophy. The article is here, and, as expected, strict construction is the theme. A few highlights: Scalia, a core…
Category: U.S. Supreme Court
SCOTUS blog provides this: Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Thursday turned aside a plea by California officials, and cleared the way for the release of a state prison inmate…
That’s the headline from SCOTUSblog, which provides this intro: The Justice Department, in a new brief in the pending Supreme Court cases on detainees’ legal rights, argued that any reopening of the…
The Times-Dispatch of Richmond, Virginia has this article today: “Governor Kaine postpones Bell execution; Executions will be stayed till U.S. high court rules in lethal-injection case.” Here are the highlights: Gov. Timothy M. Kaine granted a…
From today’s LA Times, this article reports the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case asking whether judges may take into account “acquitted conduct” when they determine the length of a…
Capital Defense Weeklyhas this interesting piece about a host of cert denials from Texas in the aftermath of Medellin. 7 Mexican-born inmates on Texas’ death row lost their bids for appeal Monday before…
This term, the nation’s high Court will consider the constitutionality of lethal injection, the means of execution currently used by most states and whether capital punishment is an appropriate sentence…
SCOTUSblog released today its latest installment of “Petitions to Watch“, a list of cases the SCOTUS insiders believe have a reasonable chance of going to the main stage when the…
Here’s a recap provided by SCOTUSblog on Indiana v. Edwards , a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether states can require a defendant to have a…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ended any hope Texas murderer Jose Ernesto Medellin had of further extending his delay of execution. This press release below by the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation provides…