Alliance for Justice has released a new report on judicial selection in the first ten months of the Obama administration. An assessment of the steps taken by the administration and the Senate toward promoting equal justice for all, the report shows ...
ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis announced that former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger will lead an independent inquiry into the "organizational systems and processes" of the embattled group's social services, and said that ACORN will make ...
Attorney General Eric Holder is a man on a seat that is hot and getting ever hotter. As the official with primary responsibility for cleaning up after George W. Bush's War on the Constitution, Holder faces challenges that require him to deal with 1) a ...
Conservatives claim they’re sticking it to the president by voting against Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court — but in fact, they’re giving him an opportunity to appoint genuine progressives to the federal bench. By opposing ...
The 2008-2009 term was certainly a busy one for the Supreme Court. It decided 79 cases, 23 of which, according to SCOTUSblog, were split 5-4. Of those 5-4 decisions, 16 were divided along ideological lines. A newly-available Alliance for Justice ...
You may have heard that Republicans in the U.S. Senate are blocking the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to head the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, and you may be wondering, "So what?" The person who heads that office tells the executive ...
With Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) switching to the Democratic Party, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has taken over as the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He will lead the charge on the Republican response to Obama's judicial ...
The rumors have given way to reality. After months of speculation, Associate Justice David Souter has announced his retirement from the Supreme Court. While it is a time to reflect and look back upon his service to the country, it is also a time to ...
Take 6 minutes out of your day and watch a new video, Walmart Workers for Change. It shows as effectively as anything I've seen what's happened in America where we now have one set of rules for those at the top and another set for the rest of us. It ...
The Lilly Ledbetter Act returned the law to what it had been for decades, before the Supreme Court intervened. Now we need to pass new legislation the Paycheck Fairness Act S. 182 - and stand up for judges who uphold the Constitution and the law to ...
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