The Republican petition offered the justices a bit from both categories, including nods to constitutional due process and to a federal statute on absentee voting.
Mr. Goldberg offered the justices an analogy: "A person thinks he is squeezing a lemon, but it turns out to be his sister.
Judge Hudson has offered the justices a ready-made limit on Congressional power, a limit that makes sense of past cases, is steeped in the law's traditions and allows the court to complete the task it began a century ago.
The case of a 40-foot cross in Maryland offers the justices a chance to clarify the constitutionality of religious displays.
The case is significant because it will offer the justices and the public a chance to learn about a quirk in the law of policing.
McCulloch had no respect for this stratagem, and he offered the Justice Department a deal.
People with firsthand knowledge of the matter say that Sjoblom had offered the Justice Department his testimony against Stanford in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution for himself an offer rejected by the Justice Department.
Also, the international justice may not offer the swift justice some will want, as the abortive trial of Slobodan Milosevic made clear.
However he has never offered them the justice that comes with full disclosure of the facts, or acknowledgement of his own responsibility.
Applied judiciously, risk assessment has much to offer the criminal justice system — particularly in reducing bloated prison populations without at the same time increasing the crime rate.
If court watchers thought this term was important, it's the next term that may offer the Chief Justice a chance to shift alliances once more, and come back to the conservative fold.
