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On Wednesday morning, a few hours before President Barack Obama’s speech to Congress on health care reform, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that indirectly explains why the issue has become so controversial.
The case, Citizens…
Sonia Sotomayor
Among the 68 U.S. senators who voted Thursday to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court was Missouri Republican Christopher S. “Kit” Bond.
This editorial page has had its differences with Mr. Bond, and he with us,…
Missouri Republican Sen. Kit Bond announced today that he would vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote is expected before the Senate goes into recess on Friday. No more than seven Republicans are expected to…
With a TV image of Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the background, Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows the strain of last week's confirmation hearings.
History will show that Sonia Sotomayor would become the first person of Hispanic heritage to serve on the…
Sonia Sotomayor and family members listen to Judiciary Committee hearings.
The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, began this morning with a respectful tone though some lectured her about the concept of judicial…
Judge Sonio Sotomayor | AP Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais
In the third week of July, the nation will hear a debate on whether the Founding Fathers intended to grant Americans the personal right to bear nunchaku.
This critical constitutional question will…
Voting rights march in 1965.
When the Rev. Joseph Lowery delivered the benediction at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, he wore the joyful expression of a man vindicated after a lifetime of struggle.
Mr. Lowery, as a Methodist minister in Mobile, Ala., helped…
It would be nice to think that Supreme Court order No. 08A407 would lay to rest the Internet-driven conspiracy theories about the circumstances of Barack Obama’s birth. Nice, but not realistic.
In Order No. 08A407, issued Monday morning, the court decided to…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin round-up:
Mitt Romney says let her speak. Yep. The same Romney thought to be on the VP short list.
Biden beware.
Conservative columnists are not getting in line. Or rather, they are getting out of line.
But when you knock her…
It’s amazing how American business, which sings the praises of competition, so often tries to escape market competition when it comes to its own products.
The latest example is the boom in “minimum pricing” agreements between manufacturers and retailers. Under minimum pricing,…
Philosophers long have pondered what separates humans from the great apes with whom we share 95 percent or more of our DNA.
Is it the ability to make and use tools? To remember the past and plan for the future? To…
Calls to amend the U.S. Consitution in more recent times typically have been the province of political conserviatives (Think flag burning, gay marriage, abortion. Exception: Equal Rights Amendment).
But now the Chicago Tribune’s editorial page has suggested that the 2nd Amendment of…
A couple of years ago I had a chance to chat with Linda Greenhouse, the superb New York Times reporter who covers the Supreme Court.
She was giving a talk (for free) as featured speaker at a legal aid fund raiser and…
Two hundred and seventeen years after the Second Amendment was ratified, the United States Supreme Court has decided what it means. To bear arms, it turns out, you don’t have to belong to a militia after all. In most places, it’s…
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal of a ruling by the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis that said Major League Baseball statistics are part of the public domain. Fantasy baseball fanatics around the world…
The Associated Press reports:
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow sister because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.
Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away…
