The real question in this case ... is who makes the threshold determination of using a civilian or military legal system. It's a classic case of executive and congressional power versus judicial power.
[Justice Anthony] Kennedy is willing to restrict it but not overturn it.
Anything the court does that is controversial is going to be in danger as long as it's controversial. The reason why racial segregation in schools is not going to come back is not because all nine justices think Brown is right. It's because the country has accepted that it is right.
Jewish music has come an extremely long way since Bob Zimmerman changed his name to Dylan. Now you have Madonna adopting Jewish culture and making it pop, showing the Hebrew aleph on a backdrop in her concerts. It's an interesting phenomenon, and the festival is a bit of a manifestation that Jewish music is becoming a genre of sorts.
If Clinton had told the truth about the Lewinsky evidence, Jones would be in no better position than she is now.
He fired the shots across the bow of Congress, and he has gotten the lower courts to pay attention to these things.
At that point, Roberts either has to join them, saying that Roe is good law, ... or he has to join the dissent of Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas, each of whom says Roe is an abomination and should be taken off the books.
You would need to have O'Connor and Stevens leave to have any change on the larger, broader question.
Shaquille O'Neal, when asked about his terrible free-throw shooting, says he makes them when they count. This strikes me as a bad answer in basketball and in law, because they all count.
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