It gives one the sense that when the Chief Justice asserts he has "no agenda," he's protesting a bit too much.Indeed, new research by three political scientists shows just how avidly the justices go to bat for causes they identify with.
While four members of the court thought that Mezei deserved greater procedural protections (the attorney general had refused to divulge any information as to why Mezei was being detained), no justice asserted that Mezei had a substantive constitutional right to release into this country.
Freeman also opposes the cosmopolitan emphasis on global justice, asserting that the state is the only sovereign system of politics in our contemporary political environment and thus the site of distributive and other forms of justice [ 33].
But in questioning Mr. Grudberg, several justices asserted that there was nothing wrong with a simple argument.
In a narrow 5-4 decision, the majority of justices asserted that corporate spending in politics is an act of free speech and should therefore be unlimited.
It also punishes the shareholders at the time of the settlement and discourages stockmarket listings.Lawyers for the plaintiffs, supported by the Department of Justice, assert that the threat of fraud-on-the-market lawsuits keeps managers honest.
It was dismaying to hear Justice Stephen Breyer assert that "I don't know anything about this.
In his dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. asserted that Justice Kagan accused legislators of "ignorance" in passing these laws — that they have "accidentally required 2,000 teenagers to spend the rest of their lives in jail".
Both Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and Chief Justice William Rehnquist asserted that the separation of church and state is not absolute, an opinion closer to Santorum's than to Kennedy's.
Justice Stevens, joined by Justice Scalia, asserted that the case "presents us with a pure question of law that may well determine the outcome of a number of cases of ugly racial violence from the 1960s," and as such should be heard by the court.
Justice Jefferson posited that if, as Justice Dale Wainwright asserted in a partial concurrence joined by Justice Phil Johnson, the statute regulating the terms used to signify degrees, such as "bachelor's" or "master's," violated the First Amendment, any institution — religious or otherwise — would be able to award "the equivalent" of degrees.
