Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 18, 2010 (IPS) – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear former Attorney General John Ashcroft’s appeal of a lower court decision, which ruled that he could be held responsible for the wrongful detention of a U.S. citizen. The American Civil [...]
High Court Nominee Already Drawing Fire from Left and Right
May 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS William Fisher NEW YORK, May 10 (IPS) – The question of whether U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will move the court to the right or the left continued to be among the main points of contention among legal scholars Monday. Kagan, currently the first woman to serve as [...]
GM Crops Go to US High Court, Environmental Laws on the Line
April 26, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Matthew Berger WASHINGTON, Apr 26 (IPS) – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in its first-ever case involving genetically modified crops. The decision in this case may have a significant impact on both the future of genetically modified foods and government oversight of that and other environmental [...]
Obama Weighs Choices for Sharply Divided High Court
April 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by William Fisher NEW YORK, Apr 19 (IPS) – With the resignation of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. President Barack Obama faces an opportunity that may become a migraine – or vice versa. All presidents welcome vacancies on the high court; each one gives them another [...]
U.S.: Court Overturns Limits on Corporate Election Money
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (IPS) – In a decision with profound implications for the U.S. political system, a bare majority of the Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the government cannot limit spending by corporations on advertisements in support of individual political candidates in federal elections. The 5-4 decision [...]
Dignified Debate for Judging a Judge
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – Justice John Paul Stevens will be succeeded but he can never be replaced, say his admirers. Originally nominated by a moderate Republican, President Gerald Ford, and supposedly cast in the same mold as that president, Stevens leaves the Supreme [...]