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High Court Justices Go Digital to Access Founding-Era Documents
By Tony Mauro
Legal Times
July 25, 2008
U.S. Supreme Court justices on both sides in last term's landmark gun rights case resorted to original documents in making their arguments about the meaning of the Second Amendment. But they -- as well as the lawyers in the case -- used a little-known digital resource to find them: The Constitutional Sources Project, which has digitized and made freely available online more than 11,000 historical documents relating to the Constitution and the amendments.
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Barack Obama, Legal Scholar
Special to Law.com
July 15, 2008
Barack Obama's positions on major issues have been described as nuanced, compromised, centrist or insincere. They might be all or some of these things, says law professor Kyron Huigens, but many of them are also legally sophisticated. Recognizing Obama's thinking as that of a legal scholar clarifies his stances on controversial political issues such as warrantless wiretapping and the Supreme Court's recent decision on the death penalty, Huigens writes.
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