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Most of the Supreme Court’s conservative wing to skip State of the Union

By | 01.25.11 | 12:57 pm

Tonight’s State of the Union address will likely be full of many showy “bipartisan” moments. President Obama will likely make a number of statements about reaching across the aisle, and many Republicans and Democrats in Congress will sit with a member of the other party to break up the traditional More…

Video: Legal Experts Duke It Out Over Free Speech Case

By | 07.07.10 | 4:45 pm

Today at the Heritage Foundation, legal experts debated the merits of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision — with Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the liberal wing in the majority — in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case. The Court ruled that public universities may deny funding to student organizations that More…

These Are the Guys the White House Cut a Deal With?

By | 12.01.09 | 4:28 pm

Via The Wall Street Journal, here’s the inane argument being tried by Merck, the pharmaceutical giant that defended itself before the Supreme Court this week against investors suing over the company’s failure to concede the risks of Vioxx before 2004, when the popular arthritis drug was More…