Supreme Court reverses reversal of conviction
The Supreme Court’s decision in Coleman v. Johnson, reversing the Third Circuit’s decision to overturn Johnson’s conviction, seems like not a very big deal, unless you spend a lot of time looking at U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The Court almost never summarily reverses a lower-court decision in favor of a criminal defendant, but it did here, and that is just another indication of how far the pendulum has swung against criminal defendants. ...
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Justice Scalia approaches the healthcare debate as a political one
In the recent oral arguments over the healthcare debate, Justice Antonin Scalia showed in his questioning that the debate for him was about politics, not about law. ...
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