ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected a last-ditch appeal by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to drop a contempt charge against him for refusing to obey its order to reopen old corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. Read full article > >
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Pakistan’s high court rejects prime minister’s appeal to block contempt charge
The Supreme Court is to hear a case challenging the way councils in England can consider their finances when assessing people for social care.
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Court hears social care challenge
We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and it doesn’t work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence politics behind shell corporations. It just doesn’t happen to work if you think we are a democracy and not a plutocracy. Read full article > >
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The Citizens United catastrophe
Who says government can’t get anything right? It was just two years ago that the Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, scraped away decades of barnacled case law obscuring our beloved Constitution and unequivocally established the right of corporations, unions and wealthy individuals to spend as much money as they want to influence the outcome of elections. Read full article > >
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Forget super PACs. A modest proposal for legalizing bribery
“Be careful what you wish for,” goes the saying. More than a few Republicans are undoubtedly discovering the truth in it. Evil Knievel discovered this in 1974, when he tried to jump across the Snake River Canyon, making him the most famous motorcyclist ever. But back to the Republicans who, like Knievel, made elaborate plans for their daring feat. First, they demanded “conservative” judges who would cut back on government regulations allowing “free” citizens to do what they want. So, President Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush, and then W. nominated five “conservative” Supreme Court judges – Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito and Roberts. Culminating in the ultimate Republican and Neo-Con cout d’etat that equated corporations with people, those judges came together in their Citizens United decision, which opened the floodgates for unlimited, often anonymous cash into the political process by way of super PAC contributions. Then, by weakening or shutting down unions with fervor since 2010 in states including Wisconsin and Florida, Indiana and Ohio, Republican governors and legislators also sought to neutralize their Democratic counterweights. And by restricting voters in over a dozen states via laws mandating photo IDs, shortening early voting, and by threatening, in the name of fighting voter fraud, civic organizations such as the League of Women Voters with fines of $5,000 for registrars who got their paperwork wrong, Republicans sought to further narrow the voting pool. With this three-pronged strategy finally in place, and with the biggest Daddy Warbucks businessman soon to head the Republican ticket, what could go wrong? But this is where the story takes a sad, sad turn. Their plan was that the new money flooding into the political system was supposed to be aimed at Democrats. Instead, it has been spent to attack loyal Republicans. Republicans loaded their guns for Democratic bear – then shot themselves. How could this happen? One of the gazillionaires who was supposed to help fund the coming Republican tsunami decided he did not like a fellow gazillionaire, and instead funded an insurgency to the tune of $10 million in South Carolina and Florida. Even those $10 million, however, were no match for the front-running gazillionaire, who outspent his insurgent rival by 10 to 1 in Iowa. In South Carolina, that same gazillionaire outspent the insurgent by a mere 2 to 1 – and lost. So in Florida, the gazillionaire went all out, spending $15 million for a 4 to 1 advantage, burying his competitor.
Seven justices at the UK Supreme Court start to hear arguments by lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden.
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Assange case before Supreme Court
Julian Assange was set to appear on Wednesday at Britain’s Supreme Court to appeal an order approving his extradition to Sweden.
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Julian Assange of WikiLeaks to Appeal Extradition at British Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s decision last week regarding GPS tracking of criminal suspects was a very big deal for Antoine Jones, a D.C. nightclub owner and convicted drug dealer who saw his conviction overturned. Read full article > >
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Supreme Court has shown unity, but little guidance
The Supreme Court’s decision last week regarding GPS tracking of criminal suspects was a very big deal for Antoine Jones, a D.C. nightclub owner and convicted drug dealer who saw his conviction overturned. Read full article > >
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Supreme Court has shown unity, but little guidance
Abortion is an issue that evokes passion on both sides, and journalists have to be deft in covering it lest their in-boxes overflow with angry e-mails. So it was this week with the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973 and the accompanying March for Life that has taken place here every January since. Read full article > >
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An incomplete picture of the March for Life
Gov. Chris Christie made a broad stroke for diversity on New Jersey’s Supreme Court, many of whose decisions he has found objectionable.
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Christie Names Gay and Asian Men to N.J. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that putting a tracking device on a suspect’s car violated his rights, although they differed on why.
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Police Use of G.P.S. Is Ruled Unconstitutional
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has inserted itself as the third player in a bruising confrontation between military and civilian leaders at a time when Pakistan faces a dizzying array of threats.
It is the 39th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. More than 35 million women in the United States have had a legal abortion since, making it one of the most common medical procedures performed. Read full article > >
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The religious case for legalized abortion
In a ruling that could affect House races, the Supreme Court found that a lower court had not paid enough deference to a plan drawn up by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
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The Caucus: Justices Block Election Maps Drawn by Court in Texas
Pakistan’s high court rejects prime minister’s appeal to block contempt charge
Friday, February 10th, 2012Julian Assange of WikiLeaks to Appeal Extradition at British Supreme Court
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012The Caucus: Justices Block Election Maps Drawn by Court in Texas
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