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Some Justices Seem Wary of New Member

By | 09.04.09 | 10:44 am

Excerpts released by C-SPAN in advance of its upcoming series on the Supreme Court, scheduled to begin airing October 4, suggest that some of the more conservative justices on the court are more wary of the impact their new colleague, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, may have on the court’s dynamic.

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Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas Cited Foreign Law

By | 07.16.09 | 11:09 am

Here’s an interesting discovery by Rick Pildes, law professor at New York University, posted on Balkinization.

Turns out Justice O’Connor wrote an opinion in 1998, joined by her conservative colleagues William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, that cited as persuasive an aspect of foreign law, notwithstanding Republicans’ More…