A good sign, but not as strong as it could have been:
“The Supreme Court loosened restrictions Monday on corporate- and union-funded television ads that air close to elections, weakening a key provision of a landmark campaign finance law.
The court, split 5-4, upheld an appeals court ruling that an anti-abortion group should have been allowed to [...]

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A mistake that the SCOTUS will ultimately overturn:
“The Bush administration cannot use new anti-terrorism laws to keep U.S. residents locked up indefinitely without charging them, a divided federal appeals court said Monday.
The ruling was a harsh rebuke of one of the central tools the administration believes it has to combat terror.
“To sanction such presidential authority [...]

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I almost have to wonder today what terrorist, even now plotting death and mayhem, are thinking about the BS that is going on in our House and Senate. On one side you have men and women committed to protecting the Nation, and on the other you have a group of people who don’t deserve [...]

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Question: Is it proper that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg - a former attorney for the ACLU - to have actually ruled on a ACLU case before her? Isn’t it a standard practice to recuse oneself when there is a conflict of interest - such as in the case of CJ [...]

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