… This volume will serve as a timely and thought-provoking guide for activists, thinkers, and policy makers – as well as students of transitional justice – interested in the tension between the universal and the particular in the arduous struggle for liberation.
But lawyers involved in those issues said the emphatic declarations signaled the justices' interest in the dangers of government overreach.
Granting a stay of a lower court's decision is usually a strong indication of the justices' interest in eventually hearing the case.
While the case, Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly, No. 00-596, offers the court an opportunity to set new rules for the constitutional protection of commercial speech, that did not seem to be the focus of the justices' interest during the argument.
"When a Supreme Court Justice indicates interest in a dormant constitutional question, people take note, especially if it's a question that's otherwise generating a lot of controversy.
Throughout, he speaks to a broad readership, and his focus on freedom and social justice will interest scholars and activists alike.
One of the most important lessons in this oration is that justice and interest, two seemingly irreconcilable concepts, are not mutually exclusive.
However, in a 2006 case, five justices expressed interest in statistical metrics that show how a plan benefits (or handicaps) a given party.
Time and again, there has been a blurring of the lines between the military and the police; between the interests of justice and the interests of capital; and between national security, political expediency and mere order.
At the argument last Tuesday, it emerged that several justices were interested in a larger question.
