Category: Federal_Judges
09/09/09
Originally Published May 26, 2009; Last Updated and Republished August 08, 2009:The president has nominated United States Court of Appeals, for the Second Circuit, Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace the retiring Justice David Souter.Res:UPDATED… more »
08/21/09
Originally Published October 03, 2006; Last Updated and Republished August 21, 2009:
Lawyers, in a direct challenge to the habeas corpus provision of the Military Commissions Act 2006 (aka "In Torture We Trust Act 2006" or "America the Torturer Act… more »
04/30/09
Supreme Court Justice David Souter to retire in June 2009 according to a NYT's report.
Hopefully, Souter's "retirement" will include some public writing in between periods of private thought.
Web: UPDATED 05/07/2009 NYT, To Replace Souter, Obama Ma… more »
04/08/09
03:03:13 pm by admin, Categories: Pres-Power, Federal_Judges, Rule of Law, Abuse of Power, Government Accountability, USDOJOIG, King Bush The Idiot's Reign, Forty Fourth President, DOJ, Forty Third President Only days after federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan took the unusual step of publicly rebuking and expressing a lack of confidence in the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) Attorney General Eric Holder1 has named Mary Patrice Brown to lead the Offic… more »
02/27/09
11:32:13 pm by misblog, Categories: GWOT, Surveillance, Wiretapping, Federal_Judges, Rule of Law, Abuse of Power, State Secrets The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit) declined the Obama Administration's invitation1 to issue a stay of a discovery order by Chief Judge Vaughn Walker2 in the case of Al Haramain v. Obama2. more »
09/26/07
In a stunning and stinging decision District Court Judge Anne L. Aiken, eviscerates the Patriot Act by declaring 50 U.S.C. §§ 1804 and 1823, as amended by the Patriot Act, unconstitutional!
"... Moreover, the constitutionally required interplay between… more »
03/06/07
Surprise! - Bush will soon release a report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board "blessing" his illegal wiretapping and data-mining operations.
Only one problem, "board blessings" do not proxy for a properly issued warrant by an Articl… more »
02/21/07
District Court Judge, Vaughn Walker declines the government's and AT&T's motion to freeze pre-trial discovery pending a ruling, by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, on his August 2006 ruling that the state secrets privilege was unavailable to dismiss… more »
01/24/07
12:03:18 am by misblog, Categories: Books, Federal_Judges, US Supreme Court, News, Human Rights, Slavery In her new book, Supreme Conflict1, journalist and author Jan Crawford Greenburg writes:
"From the beginning, Scalia found himself agreeing with Thomas’s views on the law. After Thomas’s very first conference, Scalia changed his mind to side with him in… more »
01/12/07
The United States District Court, District of Columbia has issued its "house-keeping" rules of order for the upcoming trial of USA v Libby. (Remember the Valerie Plame leak.)
The order, among other items, includes seating assignments for the public an… more »
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