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Rehnquist Exit Talk Raises Many Scenarios
Tony [email protected] a few brief hours on June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court retirement rumor mill, idle since last summer, lurched into full-tilt production.The Arizona Republic Web site reported speculation was increasing on Capitol Hill that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist planned to retire "as early as this summer.Activists Hope Win on Protests at Capitol Extends to Supreme Court
Will the warm glow of a decision rejecting a ban on sidewalk protests at the Capitol radiate over to the Supreme Court? Activists are hoping so.Lawyers Struggle to Decode Supreme Court Recusals
Tony [email protected] the U.S. Supreme Court denied review in a little-noticed case involving the republic of Croatia in October 2002, Croatia's lawyer in the case remembers doing a double take when he saw the Court's order.The order indicated that Justice Antonin Scalia had recused in Kahvedzic v.Justice Scalia Bows Out of Pledge Case
Tony [email protected] Mayor Bill Beck of Fredericksburg, Va., remembers most about the outdoor Religious Freedom Day ceremony last Jan. 12 was the temperature. "It was cold as blue blazes."But Beck also vividly remembers being surprised at Justice Antonin Scalia's blunt criticism of how the courts and society have handled church-state issues in recent years.The Road Not Taken: Justice Douglas' Famous Hike Recreated
Fifty years ago last month, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was making national headlines, but not for any decision he had written. Instead, he was leading conservationists and journalists on a well-publicized nine-day, 184.5-mile trek along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, D.C. The hike was aimed at convincing editors of The Washington Post as well as government officials that the canal should remain pristine and not be paved over for a highway.Trending Stories