Supreme Court rules Arizona voter ID law valid for November elections
The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that Arizona can enforce a new law requiring voters to show government-issued ID cards at the polls for the November elections, reversing a decision [text,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Adam Samaha of the University of Chicago Law School says that this Term's US Supreme Court cases will likely reveal whether we have a new boss on the Court who can push its decisions in new directions,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Alison Nathan of Fordham University School of Law says that the provision in the military commissions bill stripping the federal courts of habeas jurisdiction over detainees threatens a fundamental element of our constitutional heritage ... Following a...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, one of the lead attorneys on the Center for Constitutional Rights' challenge to the NSA domestic surveillance program, says that Senator Arlen Specter's "compromise" bill to bring such challenges within the jurisdiction of the...
Brigham City v. Stuart, Supreme Court of the United States, May 22, 2006 [ruling that police can enter a home without a warrant when they have not knocked or announced their presence if they have an objectively reasonable basis to...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday against issuing a stay of removal in the case of a British citizen with US permanent resident status who had been convicted of marijuana possession, domestic violence and resisting arrest...
Padilla v. Hanft, Supreme Court of the United States, April 3, 2006 [text of opinions issued in connection with the Court's 6-3 denial of Jose Padilla's petition for certiorari to the US Fourth Circuit Court for Appeals that had previously...
Supreme Court skeptical of military commissions in oral arguments
Most of the eight US Supreme Court justices hearing oral arguments Tuesday in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld appeared skeptical of the Bush administration's contention that special military tribunals established by the President [Military...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Todd Peppers of Roanoke College, author of the forthcoming book Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of Supreme Court Law Clerks (Stanford University Press, 2006) says that although Justice Samuel Alito's recent hiring...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England concerning whether the state of New Hampshire...
