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...whose vicinity suddenly renders drug offenders eligible for a much stiffer sentence. The undergrad with a dozen psychedelic mushrooms living high in Mather Tower, for instance, is not interested in padding his clientele with the young learners of Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary far below. In these instances, the judiciary??s function of meting out well-contemplated, proportional justice to offenders has been completely overridden by a mandatory sentence out of all proportion to the crime committed. What logic, for instance, explains why a joint smoked in Winthrop H entry earns a sentence of at least two additional...
...have a conversation with the justices instead of doing a formal, stiff presentation,” he added. Joining Katyal at yesterday’s event was the Kennedy School’s Stanton Professor of the First Amendment Frederick Schauer, who spoke about the judiciary??s agenda relative to that of the public—the topic of the 60-page foreword he wrote for the current issue of the Law Review. Noting that Medicare, Social Security, fuel costs, taxes, and the war in Iraq are among the most salient political issues today, Schauer said that these...
...Jersey Court unanimously agreed on the equality of rights, we cannot help but lament its refusal to make same-sex marriage equal in both name and content. Its decision to defer to the legislature on the question of nomenclature threatens to undermine the minority whom it is the judiciary??s obligation to protect. This decision is especially unfortunate as there have already been indications from the New Jersey Senate and Assembly that the legislature will settle for terming this union as simply a “civil union...
...accused “the hard-hard right” of trying to use the “unelected branch”—the judiciary??to enact its agenda, having failed to do so through Congress and the Presidency...
Israel remains the lone democracy in the Middle East, with all institutions—a free press, a multitude of parties and an independent judiciary??that are at the heart of true liberal democracies. The region and the world have tens of states that do not come close to lining up to Israel’s standards, which in Israel’s case are particularly worthy of esteem because they are maintained despite the fact that the country has been under siege for large parts of its history...