At the annual Hanukkah celebration at the White House in 2011, Obama noted, "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is here.
Mr. Levin noted Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that "there is no bar to this nation's holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant".
About 95percentt of cases are handled by state courts rather than appointed federal judges, notes Justice Stephen Breyer, who appeared at the Fordham Law School conference with his former colleague.
"It was pretty ugly for a time, but we were able to overcome it, get a lead after that," said Manager Joe Torre, who noted Justice should have thrown to second base.
Supreme Court nominees generally have a tendency to act like "the smartest kids in the room," she noted; Justice Stephen Breyer, she said, claimed that the best advice he was given while preparing for his confirmation was from the political consultant Michael Berman: don't risk intellectually outshining the senators.
"[T]he ultimate determination here is whether somebody is mentally retarded; and the IQ test is just a part of that," noted Justice Elena Kagan.
"If you had to imagine a nightmare term on the Supreme Court for the rights and strength of American workers, this would be it," Benjamin Sachs, an expert on labor at Harvard Law School, told me, noting Justice Kennedy wasn't exactly an ally of the labor movement as it stands.
"if you had to kind of imagine kind of a nightmare term on the Supreme Court for the rights and strengths of American workers, this would be it," Benjamin Sachs, an expert on labor at Harvard Law School, told me, noting Justice Kennedy wasn't exactly an ally of the labor movement as it stands.
In "Scalia Refusing to Take Himself Off Cheney Case" (front page, March 19), you note that Justice Antonin Scalia argued that many justices received their appointments to the court precisely because they were friends with the president or other senior officials.
