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And Now For Some Genuinely Good News

March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Supreme Court

No amount of oil drilling news can ruin my good mood today, not when there are so many shockingly reasonable federal court decisions being announced. The first, Padilla v. Kentucky, finds that bad legal advice about the immigration consequences of a criminal guilty plea constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel. This is huge. As one immigrants’ [...]

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Roberts To Court: “Let’s Be More Out Of Touch”

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Politics, Supreme Court

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts was very, very uncomfortable when President Obama criticized the Citizens United case during the State of the Union speech in January.  But it’s not because Obama is black!!  It’s because the State of the Union has “degenerated into a political pep rally” and it’s just Not Fair [...]

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Quick, Someone Explain Symbolism to Scalia

October 8th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Supreme Court

During oral arguments in the Salazar v. Buono case (involving the constitutionality of a 5-foot cross in the Mojave National Preserve), Justice Scalia clearly just didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. After Peter Eliasberg of the ACLU explained that the cross symbolizes, you know, something Christian-y, Scalia had this to say: The cross [...]

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