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Supreme Court

US Supreme Court backs religious independence in surprise decision

James S. Cole | 23 January 2012 |

tags: First Amendment, religious freedom, Supreme Court

The unanimous decision is a major setback for the Obama Administration.

The prisons pickle

James S. Cole | 20 June 2011 |

tags: prisons, Supreme Court

How Brown v. Plata has undermined Congressional limits on federal court orders, and how citizens have allowed this to happen.

Ruin and reform

Godfrey Hodgson | 17 February 2010 |

tags: Supreme Court, US politics

The Supreme Court has just made even harder the effort to limit the degradation of American politics by money.

Citizens United and the problem of modern judicial activism

Carson Holloway | 09 February 2010 |

tags: judicial activism, law, Supreme Court

Why the concept of “strict scrutiny” is alien to the Constitution and why it poses a threat to a constitutionally defensible judicial review.

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