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...Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David H. Souter joined Kennedy's opinion, against a conservative minority led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as well as Samuel A. Alito Jr., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas...
...Even the two dissenters, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter, weren't much comfort to the inmates. Their opinion would have sent the case back to the Kentucky courts to decide whether the execution team should use some test - like checking the condemned prisoner's reflexes by brushing his eyelashes - to determine whether he's unconscious before administering the second drug...
...ideological apparatus of the right or the left. As young Justice Department lawyers in the early days of Ronald Reagan, Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito played on the same volleyball team, and both men were quickly marked for big things and nurtured for the bench. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's cocoon was the American Civil Liberties Union. Stephen Breyer's inculcation came on Senator Edward Kennedy's Judiciary Committee staff...
...usually siding with the conservatives. [Justice Sandra Day] O'Connor was sufficiently a wild card that the alliances could never be predicted with precision. Now, we're looking at very predictable results. But the Court never stays the same. I don't think [Justice John Paul] Stevens, [Justice Ruth Bader] Ginsburg and [Justice David] Souter will be around for more than another few years...
...criticism of the tribunal system, Colin Powell's call for the closing of Guantanamo and the refusal of two military judges to proceed with tribunal hearings may be enough for the justices to grant detainees habeas this time. Third, at least five justices - John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Steven Breyer and, believe it or not, Anthony Kennedy - have suggested in past opinions that they won't deny detainees access to the courts...