January 3 News: Expert Links Oil and Gas Wastewater Well With Series of Ohio...
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View ArticleRemington Shepard: Fox Nation v. Fox News Latino: AZ Immigration Law Ruling...
This morning Fox Nation and Fox News Latino once again provided dramatically different views of the same immigration news story, demonstrating the palpable tension between the two Fox websites and...
View ArticleDissenting Opinion Analysis: Justice Kennedy Abandons All Pretensions Of...
Justice Anthony Kennedy Yesterday was a day for celebration because when millions of Americans learn that their lives are no longer endangered by a renegade Supreme Court, everything else is details ....
View ArticleSupreme Court Judge Overturns Suspension of Belo Monte Dam
The Brazilian Supreme Court has overturned the suspension of the Belo Monte Dam, caving to pressure from President Dilma Rousseff’s administration without giving appropriate consideration to the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Law Restricting Early Voting
Last month, President Obama’s reelection campaign filed a lawsuit claiming that a recently enacted Ohio law eliminating early voting in the three days before an election, except for members of the...
View ArticleAfter Two Court Orders, Louisiana May Finally Get Its First Black Chief Justice
A federal district judge rejected this weekend a racially charged challenge to a Louisiana Supreme Court justice’s seniority that has threatened Justice Bernette Johnson’s path to becoming the court’s...
View ArticleCourt Rejects Obama Administration’s ‘Preposterous’ Defense in Gitmo...
After a string of federal court losses that has whittled away at the U.S. Supreme Court’s guarantee of “meaningful review” for Guantanamo Bay detainees, a D.C
View ArticleFilibustered Federal Appeals Court Nominee Goodwin Liu Proves Himself...
To look at him now, one would never suspect California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu was the failed federal appeals court nominee tarred by some Republican senators as a radical who wanted to make...
View ArticleCourt Overturns Death Penalty For 34-Year Death Row Inmate
Doug Stankewitz. California’s longest serving death row inmate will no longer be slated for execution, if a Monday ruling by the 9th Circuit U.S
View ArticleGrassley Proposes Eliminating 3 Seats On Powerful Court To Keep Obama From...
As ThinkProgress has previously explained, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is the second most powerful court in the country. It’s also a bastion of right-wing...
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