Samuel Alito
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Since perjury before a grant jury, like perjury before a trial, is a serious criminal offense, there is no reason to think this deterrent is any less effective [than a civil-rights lawsuit] in preventing false grand-jury testimony
That's what I can't understand
The reach of the Clean Water Act is notoriously unclear. Any piece of land that is wet at least part of the year is in danger of being classified by EPA employees as wetlands covered by the act, and according to the federal government, if property owners begin to construct a home on a lot that the agency thinks possesses the requisite wetness, the property owners are at the agency's mercyMore quotes »
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Court hears Southern Union appeal of $18M fine
jail term, yet give judges freedom to decide on fines that "will make a pauper of you."But another conservative justice, Samuel Alito , seemed more open to the administration's argument. Alito , a former prosecutor, has been more supportive of the government's Read more »
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John Marttila: 2012: Seeing the Long Arc of American Democracy Reversed
Mitt, congratulations. At long last, you are the official Republican nominee for president. And a special shout-out to the people without whom your victory would have been impossible: I am speaking of course, of John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kenn from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Is Citizens United already shrinking?
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens, a dissenter to the Supreme Court’s controversial 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission on money in politics, said Wednesday that the Court has already begun paring the scope of that decision, a from SCOTUSblog Read more »
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Supreme Court decision may help city in lacrosse case
DURHAM -- An April U.S. Supreme Court ruling bolsters immunity claims from the city and two Durham Police Department detectives who investigated the Duke lacrosse case, lawyers for the city say. The unanimous ruling, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, say from Greensboro News Record Read more »
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Justices' summer plans point to late June finish
FILE - In this June 7, 2011, file photo, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife Jane Roberts arrive for a State Dinner hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in honor of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White from San Antonio Express Read more »
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Supreme Court to consider case on secret international wiretapping
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. From left: Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, Chief Justice John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Collection of the Supreme Court of th from Stars and Stripes Read more »
