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Supreme Court Term Reviews

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With yesterday's ending of this year's Supreme Court term, the reviews are beginning.  First is Joan Bikupic's, "Paradox marks Supreme Court term," in USA Today.In the annual term that finished Thursday, the justices divided 5-4 on many of their most closely watched cases: throwing out Washington's ban on handguns, barring the death penalty for child rape and allowing Guantanamo prisoners to challenge their detention before U.S. courts. They also produced one-vote margins to toss out a $2.5 billion verdict in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case and to shield bankers, accountants and lawyers from fraud lawsuits by disgruntled investors. Yet in other disputes that might have been equally polarizing, such as on cases upholding the lethal injection method of executions and voter-identification rules, the justices minimized their differences...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 27, 2008 (boomark / email).

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