In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that.” TR was as mistaken about Holmes’s spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts’s. Read full article > >

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Liberals put the squeeze to Justice Roberts

GREENSBORO, N.C. — They want it all. Every private jet receipt, every handwritten note, every voice-mail transcript.    No scrap of evidence introduced in the four weeks of John Edwards’s corruption trial is too trivial for a second look by the punctilious jury that entered its fifth day of deliberations Thursday in a downtown federal courthouse in this Piedmont region city. During its first four days of deliberations, the jury sent notes to the judge requesting 23 prosecution exhibits, most dealing with the $700,000 that Virginia heiress Rachel “Bunny” Mellon funneled to Edwards’s cohorts while he was running for president and later angling for a vice presidential nod in 2008. But on Thursday, the jury said it wanted more — much more.  Read full article > >

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John Edwards jury wants second look at all the evidence

More than a year after resorting to bankruptcy court, the orchestra on Wednesday submitted its plan to erase debt and cut costs to a judge.

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Philadelphia Orchestra Submits Reorganization Plan

Legal analysts awaiting a verdict in the John Edwards federal corruption trial say the judge’s interpretation of the law could shape what the jurors might ultimately decide.

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In Edwards Case, Experts See Judge’s Words as Key

Will.i.am, a judge on the programme The Voice, has carried the Olympic torch in Taunton.

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VIDEO: Will.i.am carries Olympic torch

A US student who used a webcam to secretly film his room-mate in a gay encounter is set to be sentenced by a judge.

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US webcam student to learn fate

Virginia’s General Assembly rejected a gay man for a Richmond judgeship early Tuesday, after conservatives argued that his support for gay marriage and challenge to the military’s now-defunct “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy made him unfit for the bench. Read full article > >

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House of Delegates rejects gay judge Tracy Thorne-Begland

Judges hail his “trustworthy point of view.”

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Beast’s John Avlon Wins 2nd NSNC Award

A lack of formal charges, a change of judges, a rescinded decision and a stalled legal process have led Jacob Ostreicher to try to call attention to his case.

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American jailed in Bolivia nears month on hunger strike

In the case against former Senator John Edwards, a judge denied the defense’s argument that the prosecution had failed to offer sufficient evidence of criminal conspiracy and other charges.

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John Edwards Trial Will Proceed to Jury

A Haitian man who says he was raped by five Uruguayan peacekeepers in Haiti appears before a Uruguayan judge investigating the case.

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Haiti rape case in Uruguay court

Senior judges at the European Court of Human Rights are due to meet to decide whether cleric Abu Qatada can appeal against deportation from the UK.

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Abu Qatada appeal request debated

A man is acquitted of murdering gangland figure Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll after a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence.

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Man acquitted of ‘Gerbil’ murder

Judge declared it unconstitutional.

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Okla. Blocks ‘Personhood’ Bill

Judge to decide if it can be discussed.

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Edwards Sex Tape Mentioned