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Video: SCOTUS Experts Weigh In on Kagan Confirmation Process

By | 06.15.10 | 8:32 pm

Five legal experts discussed Elana Kagan’s prospects for confirmation to the Supreme Court today at the Aspen Institute, and Abbey Brandon of TWI’s video team was on hand. The experts — Rachel Brand, a Justice Department official under George W. Bush; Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to President Clinton; More…

Supreme Court Orders a New Hearing for Death Row Inmate Troy Davis

By | 08.18.09 | 10:51 am

In a highly unusual decision, a majority of Supreme Court justices yesterday ordered that a federal judge in Georgia must hear new evidence that lawyers for Troy Davis have been saying for years will prove his innocence.

Davis, as I’ve explained before, has been on death More…

Ricci Case As Example of Sotomayor’s Judicial Restraint

By | 06.15.09 | 10:58 am

Amid the debate over Sotomayor’s supposedly “activist” move joining the per curiam opinion in the reverse discrimination case of Ricci v. DeStefano, there’s been little actual analysis of the legal standards the Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel’s decision was based on.

Although that may be because the More…