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The potential that the Internet and new media such as blogs have to engage citizens in legal issues and the democratic process far outweighs negative consequences of the digital age, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday during a legal conference. ... Source: www.catholic.org --- 16 days ago
MANASSAS, VA (SEPTEMBER 29, 2008) - Less than two weeks after The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) broke the story ... ... Source: uanews.opi.arizona.edu --- 39 days ago
The local news broadcast will be presented in high definition with a new format. ... Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 37 days ago
email An Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is in Tucson. Stephen Breyer is taking part in a couple of events. Monday he delivered the Isaac Marks Memorial Lecture at the University of Arizon... ... Source: www.lifesite.net --- 14 days ago
NEW YORK, NY, October 2, 2008 (CNSweb) - Less than two weeks after The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) broke the story that pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is the intended recipient of the Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize, Fordham University students are working feverishly to collect... ... Source: www.catholicexchange.com --- 1 day ago
In just two weeks, more than 1,100 Fordham University alumni and others have signed a student-sponsored petition opposing the Catholic University’s plan to honor Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with a legal ethics award.The open letter to Father Joseph McShane,… ... Source: www.abajournal.com --- 9 days ago
Justice Stephen G. Breyer will be able to participate in more business cases before the Supreme Court because he and his wife are selling many of their stocks. Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg confirmed the stock sales, Bloomberg News reports. The Breyers owned 38 stocks, more than any… ... Source: portalcot.com --- 29 days ago
New York, Sep 16, 2008 / 06:03 am (CNA).- A Fordham University legal ethics center’s decision to award an ethics prize to the pro-abortion rights Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer is drawing criticism for apparently ignoring the Justice’s participation in a Supreme Court decision that struck down laws restricting the practice of partial-birth abortion. Fordham [...] ... Source: althouse.blogspot.com --- 1 day ago
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument in Bartlett v. Strickland , an important voting rights case: Christopher G. Browning Jr., North Carolina’s solicitor general, defended the decision of officials there to violate a state law in order to create a district that included about 39 percent of the black voting-age population, saying the Voting Rights Act required the creation of the district to prevent the dilution of the minority group’s ability to elect a representative of its choice. The fact that the district did not include a majority of black voters was a virtue, Mr. Browning said. True, he said, minority voters would be able to elect a representative of their choice only with the aid of voters from other groups. “Coalition districts help us in reaching the point where race will no longer matter,” Mr. Browning said.... Several justices seemed [say or suggest] that a 50 percent requirement had the usual costs and benefits of what lawyers call “bright line rules.” They are easy to apply, but they can be arbitrary and inflexible.... Justice Stephen G. Breyer proposed [a] number, one tied to the amount of crossover voting from whites needed to elect the minority group’s preferred candidate. “There’s a kind of natural stopping place,” he said. “When I worked out the numbers, it seemed that natural stopping place fell around 42-43 percent.” blog advertising blog advertising ... Source: blog.fidelis.org --- 18 days ago
Sad news coming from Fordham, a “Catholic” university in New York. From the Catholic News Agency: A Fordham University legal ethics center’s decision to award an ethics prize to the pro-abortion rights Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer is drawing criticism for apparently ignoring the Justice’s participation in a Supreme Court decision that struck down laws [...] ... Source: ip.law360.com --- 9 days ago
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer will shed a majority of his stocks in an effort to avoid conflicts of interest so that he can potentially hear more cases on the court's docket. ...
Source: opinion.latimes.com --- 29 days ago
Justice Stephen G. Breyer (REUTERS/Jason Reed) The Cardinal Newman Society, a conservative Catholic group, is berating Fordham University Law School for awarding an ethics prize to Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer who, among many other rulings, wrote the majority opinion in a 2000 decision striking down Nebraska's ban on "partial-birth" abortions. The society argues that the honor for Breyer defies a directive from American bishops that “[t]he Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.” Leave aside the question of whether an award for Breyer must be construed as endorsement of every one of his opinions. What's really interesting about this protest is that it involves a judge (and a Jewish one), not a politician. A pro-choice legislator arguably chooses whether to support legal abortion; a judge, however, is supposed to be interpreting what legislators (and the framers of the Constitution) intended. A judicial decision isn't normally considered an "act" in the sense that a vote in Congress is. This may explain why Catholic bishops generally scold -- and even withhold Holy Communion from -- pro-choice Catholic legislators but not Catholic judges. For example, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who signed a 1992 opinion upholding the "essential holding" of ...
Source: www.kentucky.com --- 8 days ago
Whales may simply have to pay the price as the Navy prepares for war, Supreme Court justices suggested Wednesday. In a closely watched environmental case, justices Wednesday morning repeatedly sounded sympathetic to Pentagon officials who want to run large-scale Navy exercises off the Southern California coast. While the resulting underwater sonar storm disturbs marine mammals, it also helps prepare sailors for combat. "I thought the whole point of the armed forces was to hurt the environment," Justice Stephen Breyer said, half-jokingly. "Of course they're going to do harm." The Pentagon and environmentalists disagree over exactly how much mid-frequency active sonar injures marine mammals, and justices Wednesday couldn't resolve the conflict. An apparent majority of justices, though, did appear ready to defer to military expertise in matters of national security. Chief Justice John Roberts raised the specter of an undetected "North Korean diesel submarine to get (closer) to Pearl Harbor" if sailors couldn't train with sonar, and Justice Samuel Alito asked pointedly if a judge could be considered "an expert on anti-submarine warfare." Alito added that there is "something incredibly odd" about a trial judge making a decision "contrary" to the Navy's requirements. ... Source: www.politics.ie --- 37 days ago
by Defeated Romanticist (Posted 3 hours ago) If John McCain is elected president in 2008 and fulfills his campaign pledge to appoint Supreme Court justices in the Scalia-Roberts mould, it is likely that that could be one of the most significant acts of his presidency. It is likely that a McCain presidency will have a much greater impact than an Obama one because the Court's liberal Justices are the oldest. Top of the list is John Paul Stevens, who at 88 is unlikely to last another 4-8 years. The Liberal anchor of the court, Steven's replacment with a Scalia clone alone could be enough to swing the Court decicivly toward originalism. The court's other liberals, Ruth Bader Ginsberg(75), David Souter(68) and Steven Breyer(70) would be 83, 76 and 78 respectively by the end of an 8 year McCain presidency and it is likely that at least one will retire also. The originalist wing on the other-hand has the potential to be a thorn in the side of President Obama. Of its Justices, only Scalia (72) is likely to retire in the next 8 years with Justice Roberts (53) likely to preside over the Court for decades to come joined by Clarence Thomas(60) and Samuel Alito(58). Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court's usual swing vote who apparently has a philosophy all his own is 72 and could also face retirement in the next 8 years. The consequences of the outlay of the Court are substanstial. If any of the four liberals or Kennedy were to be replaced it wo ... Source: www.grist.org --- 7 days ago
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the long-running dispute over the Navy's use of mid-frequency active sonar off the coast of Southern California. Environmentalists and wildlife advocates argued that restrictions on the Navy's use of sonar imposed by lower-court judges should be upheld -- at least until the Navy conducts its required environmental impact statement -- citing sonar's track record of seriously messing with whales and other marine mammals. Predictably, the Navy argues that halting or restricting sonar training exercises in any way harms national security. If the judges' comments are any indication, the court is likely to rule in the Navy's favor this spring. Justice Samuel Alito wondered aloud how a lone judge could ever restrict anything the Navy does, Justice Antonin Scalia characterized the required-but-still-not-done environmental impact statement as "procedural," Chief Justice John Roberts said that if the Navy didn't train with active sonar, another Pearl Harbor-type attack would likely happen, and even Justice Stephen Breyer said, "The whole point of the armed forces is to hurt the environment. You go on a bombing mission -- do they have to prepare an environmental impact statement first?" sources: Los Angeles Times , The New York Times , Seattle Post-Intelligencer , Associated Press ... Find more results for Justice Breyer on RSSMicro.com |
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AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation” between church and state has always been a porous one, even after landmark Supreme Court decisions outlawing official prayers in public schools and some (but not all) postings of the Ten Commandments on public property. On Sunday there was a religious service that some see as a minor gap in the wall of separation, but which some First Amendment purists see as sinister. I’m referring to the Red Mass celebrated in St. Matthew’s Cathedral the day before the opening of the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court. Five justices – four Catholics, including Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and one Jew, Stephen Breyer -- attended. The service produced a photo (at right) that I’m sure strict separationists saw as a neo-medieval alliance: Archbishop Donald Wuerl, mitered and holding the crosier or shepherd’s crook, and Roberts, who, unlike the archbishop, wasn't wearing his robes. The Red Mass in Washington is sponsored by a Catholic group and asks for divine guidance for lawyers and public officials. Americans United for Separation of Church and State looks askance at the fusion of the secular and the spiritual, though it conceded in its report on this year’s event that Cardinal John P. Foley’s sermon “was rather mild when it came to judicial lobbying.” Instead of the veiled condemnations of abortion in past Red Mass sermons, Foley said “that all of us may see law as a ref ...
O’Connor Conference: the connection between a strong court system and the economy Tony Mauro of the New Times, wrote an article published October 3rd on Law.com , about a conference attended by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, held at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. The purpose of the conference was to promote the ideal of fair and independent courts. Numerous dignitaries joined Justice O’Connor including Justice David Souter, and Justice Stephen Breyer. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan tipped his hat to the judiciary stating that it is the only branch of government “still functioning.” O’Connor herself emphasised the importance of having a dependable court sytem especially when the economy is in turmoil. To read the full article, go to http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202425001778 . Source: Ross-Blakely Law Library Blog ...
The Supreme Court is doing its best to stay out of the spotlight in the final days of the presidential campaign and while the other two branches of government struggle to deal with turmoil in the financial markets. Members of the U.S. Supreme Court sit for a group portrait at the Supreme Court in Washington in this March 3, 2006 file photo. Seated in the front row, from left to right are: Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, and Associate Justice David Souter. Standing, from left to right, in the top row, are: Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr. ...
The law is a guide to an orderly society, an American cardinal said an a church service Sunday that included five Supreme Court justices ahead of the start of their new term. Supreme Court Associate Justice's Clarence Thomas, back, and Stephen Breyer, right, exit Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle following the 55th Annual Red Mass celebration, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, in Washington,. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy shakes hands after exiting Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle following the 55th Annual Red Mass celebration, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, in Washington,. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, center, shakes hands as Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl, right, watches after exiting Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle following the 55th Annual Red Mass celebration, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, in Washington,. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, center, shakes hands after exiting Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle following the 55th Annual Red Mass celebration, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, in Washington,. Chief Justice John Roberts walks to his motorcade after attending Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle to celebrate the 55th Annual Red Mass, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, in Washington,. Chief Justice John Roberts, right, and Archbiship Donald W. Wuerl, left, exit Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle following the 55th Annual Red Mass celebration, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, in Washington. ...