Negotiations between Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy and President George Bush resulted in a reshuffling of judicial appointments , according to the Legal Times. President Bush withdrew the nomination of Stephen Murphy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and instead nominated him to the Eastern District of Michigan. In Murphy’s place, the President nominated Helene White, a Michigan Court of Appeals judge whose nomination by President Bill Clinton in 1997 to the Sixth Circuit was blocked by the Senate for four years. According to the Alliance for Justice’s blog , as part of the agreement, Senator Leahy agreed to consider the nomination of Raymond Kethledge to the other vacancy on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. AFJ has more about the nominees here . Follow the links for information from the White House about nominees Stephen Murphy , Helene White , and Raymond Kethledge . Senator Leahy released this statement o...
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Fake voter registration is hardly the only election problem. Efforts to purge voter rolls of ineligible voters can (and often do) result in the removal of eligible voters as well, particularly if purge efforts are based upon returned mailers. From the Detroit Free Press :
U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III told state officials to immediately stop canceling the registrations of newly registered voters whose voter identification cards are returned as undeliverable by the post... more
In an op-ed on the upcoming Supreme Court gun-control case, Larry Tribe writes that "a legislature’s choice to limit the citizenry to rifles, shotguns and other weapons less likely to augment urban violence need not, and should not, be viewed as an unconstitutional abridgment of the right of the people to keep or bear arms." ACS will host a panel discussion on District of Columbia v. Heller on March 13 in Washington, D.C., featuring Carl Bogus, Dave Kopel, John Payton, and moderator Dah... more
Federal District Court Judge William H. Pauley of the Southern District of New York adopted Magistrate Judge James Francis’s reasoning that "the exercise of peremptory challenges on the basis of national origin is prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment." A New York Times story described Judge Pauley’s actions as affirming that "allowing American-born blacks on a Bronx jury but systematically excluding West Indians is discriminatory." According to Judge Pauley’s opinion ... more
In a reversal, Attorney General Michael Mukasey will not be awarded Boston College Law School’s Founder’s Medal when he speaks at commencement, according to a Boston Globe report. As reported on ACSBlog last month , students, faculty, and alumni criticized Mukasey’s selection as commencement speaker because the Attorney General refused, during his confirmation hearings, to declare that waterboarding constitutes torture. In a memorandum , Boston College Law School Dean Garv... more
Doug Kendall, who discussed the conservative judicial project in this excellent introduction to the 2007-2008 Supreme Court term, examines the Court’s decisions thus far this term in an article in Slate, concluding that "by investing heavily in legal strategy and working patiently in case after case, the [Chamber of Commerce] has won victories that have gradually shifted the ground rules in its favor." He writes:
With the Supreme Court term moving past the halfway mark, corporate A... more
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