Topic: Robert E. Jackson
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Opinion: Sandy Hook massacre: The NRA's gun 'rights' are a fabrication of modern times
In the wake of Adam Lanza's massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, let's try a grade-school exercise. True or false? For most of US history, Americans had broad gun rights. That's false. Until recently, individual gun rights were severely restricted – with NRA support.
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The Monitor's View: A case of Obamacare and religious liberty
On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered a lower court to decide on a case involving a clash between religious liberty and Obamacare. Government must tread lightly in defining religion as a way to achieve universal health care and increase access to contraceptives.
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9/11 mastermind arraigned: Can the US deliver real, lasting justice?
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Al Qaeda's former No. 3 man, is being arraigned Saturday on 2,976 counts of murder. It's being called a modern-day Nuremberg trial that will test the fairness of US military commissions.
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'Fracking' for natural gas is polluting ground water, study concludes
A Duke University study finds high methane levels in ground water near where fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has occurred. Fracking is a controversial practice to extract natural gas from shale.
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Elena Kagan on rare path: first a Supreme Court clerk, later a justiceIf confirmed, Elena Kagan will become the sixth former Supreme Court law clerk to become a justice later in life. Much of the work behind the scenes in the Supreme Court is done by these brilliant recent graduates.
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Elena Kagan: former solicitors general back Supreme Court nominee
Elena Kagan was the first woman solicitor general – the government’s top lawyer at the Supreme Court. Former solicitors general have written a letter endorsing the Supreme Court nominee.
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Opinion: Elena Kagan and the case for an elitist Supreme Court
The Supreme Court was designed by the Founders to be elitist.
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Global warming will cause plants and animals to migrate
A new study estimates that animals and plants will have to migrate, on average, nearly a quarter of a mile each year to keep up with shifting climate belts caused by global warming.
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Opinion: A day of reckoning for Bush's 'torture' lawyers
Attorney General Eric Holder must follow the gold standard of Nuremburg.
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Opinion: Fill Souter's shoes with a genial persuader
A liberal appointee wouldn't affect the court's rulings much. A liberal who can coax conservatives would.
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Opinion: Lincoln's love for the law
I hope my students will follow his admonition: Be a lawyer only if you can be honest.
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