I know we've seen the environmental justice movement able to move thousands – millions – but in particular when it comes to police and state violence, being able to mobilize black folks in particular, it has been huge this past year.
QUESTION FROM JEFF PARSONS: I'm wondering if we have a problem in our "length of service" data, because we show Justice Stevens able to overtake the No. 2 spot.
I was hopeful that, particularly at such an influential institution, I would be surrounded by others committed to justice and able to do a lot of good.
For the first time, and after a series of failed appeals, Dhoruba's lawyers, at last unhampered by a judge who skewed toward prosecution rather than toward simply justice, were able to get more than 300,000 pages of documents were released.
Speaking at a policy discussion where the report was presented, Susan Bissell, UNICEF Global Chief of Child Protection, said: "Everywhere around us, every day, children are affected by violence and abuse, yet only a fraction of them have access to a fair justice system able to make decisions in their best interests".
Had the justices been able to come up with a foolproof way to score on Czech goalie Dominik Hasek in the shootout, they would have been instant national heroes.
Let's hope that in listening to the parties and weighing these big pending decisions, the justices are able to summon up thoughts of those who lead lives rather different from their own.
These cases suggest that Scalia — perhaps no more or less frequently than the liberal justices — is able to separate his political from his constitutional conclusions at least some of the time.
Last year, he was pleased when the justices were able to agree unanimously in a much higher percentage of their cases.
"We have an odious opponent that the criminal justice system is able to identify and indict and convict.
