civil liberties
The Supreme Court today held that the Second Amendment -- as recently redefined in D.C. v. Heller -- applies to the states and not just the federal government, which will.
Even more so than the other major opinion release by the Supreme Court on Thursday, the outcome of Doe v. Reed was no surprise to anyone who witnessed the oral.
Deciding an appalling case in which a 17-year old was given life without parole for a violating parole, the Supreme Court held today that life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders violate.
What Serwer, Yglesias, and Steve all said. If the administration is really going to go with a military tribunal for KSM, it's bad on the merits and bad politics. One.
For the second time this week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling applying its famous Miranda ruling. A lower court had ruled that because two years had elapsed between a.
Some thoughts on the Miranda-application ruling handed down today.
Both Adam Liptak and Lyle Denniston see, after Tuesday's oral arguments, a strong cross-ideological consensus (excluding John Paul Stevens) that the "honest services" statute often used to prosecute corruption cases.
This gets it right. Obviously, trying to pose as defenders of the rule of law when you believe that the government needs to be doing a lot more arbitrary detention.