US v. Salim Ahmed Hamdan; US v. David Matthew Hicks, US Department of Defense Appointing Authority for Military Commissions John T. Altenburg, Jr., October 21, 2004 [holding that, upon challenge as to their fitness and impartiality, three of the designated...
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Why the Supreme Court is Not an Election Issue, and Why It Should Become One
JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of Cumberland Law School at Samford University says that although the US Supreme Court has not been a significant issue thusfar in the current Presidential campaign, the likelihood of Presidential appointments to the Court...
Evans and Jordan v. Stephens, United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, October 14, 2004 [holding that President Bush acted legally when he appointed William Pryor to the appeals court bench during a holiday recess of the...
Decision by the Deputy Registrar in Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milosevic [ICTY]
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, issued September 2, 2004. Read the full decision by the Deputy Registrar. Excerpt: CONSIDERING the Trial Chamber's oral Order of 2 September 2004, by which "ursuant to the Chamber's decision to assign counsel,...
High Stakes in November: George W. Bush and the Future Federal Judiciary
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says that perhaps the most far-reaching impact of the upcoming November election is who will get to appoint the nation's judges - including its Supreme Court...
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Malvo, Virginia Circuit Court of Fairfax County, January 30, 2005 . Read the order here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Colaio v. Feinberg, United States District Court Southern District of New York, January 27, 2003 . Read the...
Bush v. Gore and the Prestige of the Supreme Court: A Self-inflicted Wound?
The Court's authority — possessed of neither the purse nor the sword — ultimately rests on sustained public confidence in its moral sanction. Such feeling must be nourished by the Court's complete detachment, in fact and appearance, from political entanglements...
In past elections, so-called "faithless electors" cast innocuously eccentric votes that provided a quaint reminder of one of the archaic curiosities of the presidential selection process. After providing a rare element of surprise in the otherwise perfunctory Electoral College ritual,...
The dispute over the election has developed into a constitutional crisis. With George W. Bush claiming victory and Al Gore refusing to concede, the election's outcome now seems destined to depend on judicial determination of complex and perhaps novel constitutional...
