O'Kelley et al. v. Cox, Georgia Supreme Court, October 26, 2004 [ruling that the courts could not intervene in the referendum process and that the parties challenging the inclusion of the proposed amendment banning same-sex marriage on the November 2...
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Why the Supreme Court is Not an Election Issue, and Why It Should Become One
JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of Cumberland Law School at Samford University says that although the US Supreme Court has not been a significant issue thusfar in the current Presidential campaign, the likelihood of Presidential appointments to the Court...
Iguarta de la Rosa v. US, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, October 14, 2004 . Read the full text of...
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 28, 2004 . Read the opinion here . Excerpt: We deal here with a novel First...
ACLU of Ohio v. Taft, US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, decided September 27, 2004 [on whether Ohio Gov. Bob Taft denied voters their constitutional rights to vote and to equal representation when he declined to order a special election...
US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Judge Jan E. DuBois, September 10, 2004 [ruling that a Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers to block websites with child pornography on them is unconstitutional because of its effect on...
JURIST Guest Columnist LTC John M. Bickers, a law professor at the US Military Academy at West Point, says that two recent decisions regarding the death penalty show that the Supreme Court seems to accept capital sentencing as a punishment,...
JURIST Guest Columnist and constitutional law scholar Thomas E. Baker of Florida International University College of Law says that the US Supreme Court's 2000 ruling in Bush v. Gore is a precedent that could be repeated after the presidential election...
In past elections, so-called "faithless electors" cast innocuously eccentric votes that provided a quaint reminder of one of the archaic curiosities of the presidential selection process. After providing a rare element of surprise in the otherwise perfunctory Electoral College ritual,...
The most complicated bit of governmental machinery which the modern world has to exhibit is that which is employed in the selection of the chief executive officer...for the United States...It is almost marvelous that any people should have preserved political...
