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Gonzales v. Carhart signaled a move in Supreme Court jurisdiction toward a restriction of abortion rights, and it drew a connection between the threat of psychological trauma and partial-birth abortion...
...also expressed an interest in bringing the case before the Supreme Court, though he conceded the difficulty of managing a timetable to move it through the court system...
...Harvard’s eight all-male final clubs have stubbornly remained on the wrong side of history. Two decades ago, the last of Princeton’s eating clubs discontinued its practice of gender discrimination after a protracted legal battle that included two failed appeals to the Supreme Court. The next year, Skull and Bones, Yale’s famous secret society, voted to accept women following a contentious public fight that pitted renowned grads like John F. Kerry and William F. Buckley, Jr. against one another. But somehow, the winds of change that blew up the coast from...
...bitter fight to confirm the Indiana University Law School professor as the Administration's top legal adviser was hardly the most high-profile nomination battle that the Administration has waged. Nor was it the most vital unfilled job on the Obama bench, sandwiched between a Supreme Court opening and a crucial security position that remains vacant, director of the Transportation Security Administration. (See the fiercest Supreme Court-nomination battles...
...calling them "two brilliant guys" and "very excellent people." Conversely, Democrats split their time between urging support for Johnsen and condemning the Bush lawyers who came before her. The vote to again send her nomination for a floor vote was on strict party lines. (See four myths about Supreme Court nominees...