The Post-Russert Era- June 30, 2008 Scratch the surface of all those glittering tributes for Tim Russert and you might find an undercoating of journalistic insecurity.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063000222.html?nav=r... A Death Penalty Puzzle- June 30, 2008 Although the Supreme Court banned capital punishment for child rape last week, the justices have made it clear that for homicide, states may inflict the ultimate penalty. Last month, capital punishment resumed after a seven-month moratorium. Rapid scheduling of executions followed the Supreme Court's ruling in Baze v. Rees, reaffirming the constitutionality of the death penalty in general and lethal injection in particular.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901476.html?nav=r... Obama's Dodge on Handguns- June 30, 2008 After months of claiming he had insufficient information to express an opinion on the District of Columbia's gun law, Barack Obama noted with apparent approval Thursday that the Supreme Court ruled that the 32-year ban on handguns "went too far." But what would he have said had the high court's 5 to 4 majority gone the other way and affirmed the law Obama's strategists can only thank swing Justice Anthony Kennedy for enabling Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion to take the Democratic...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901478.html?nav=r... Al-Arian Refuses to Enter Plea on Contempt Charges- June 30, 2008 ALEXANDRIA -- A former professor once accused of being a terrorist leader has declined to enter a plea on charges that he refused to testify before a federal grand jury.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001411.html?nav=r... Gun Shops Await New D.C. Rules- June 30, 2008 D.C. resident Anthony Mason walked into Atlantic Guns in Silver Spring on Friday afternoon and asked a question the staff had heard all day: "How can I buy a small handgun"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901886.html?nav=r... Millionaires Win- June 29, 2008 IT'S UNFORTUNATE but not disastrous for the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law that the Supreme Court struck down its so-called Millionaire's Amendment. The core of that statute -- the prohibition against unlimited "soft money" donations -- was left undisturbed by the case decided Wednesday. What is ominous, however, is the rationale the court's five-justice majority used in finding the provision unconstitutional -- a rationale that could threaten efforts to provide for public financing of...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062801751.html?nav=r... A Win by McCain Could Push a Split Court to Right- June 29, 2008 For much of its term, the Supreme Court muted last year's noisy dissents, warmed to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s vision of narrow, incremental decisions and continued a slow but hardly steady move to the right.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062802078.html?nav=r... In Courts, Afghanistan Air Base May Become Next Guantanamo- June 29, 2008 Jawed Ahmad, a driver and assistant for reporters of a Canadian television network in Afghanistan, knew the roads to avoid, how to get interviews and which stories to pitch. Reporters trusted him, his bosses say.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062801638.html?nav=r... A Better Way to Handle Young Offenders in Md.- June 29, 2008 This month The Post reported that four children had been charged as adults in the murder of a West African immigrant in Bladensburg Metro, June 18. Two of the children were 14, and the other two were 15.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702687.html?nav=r... Guns for Safety Dream On, Scalia.- June 29, 2008 The Supreme Court has spoken: Thanks to the court's blockbuster 5 to 4 decision Thursday, Washingtonians now have the right to own a gun for self-defense. I leave the law to lawyers, but the public health lesson is crystal clear: The legal ruling that the District's citizens can keep loaded handguns in their homes doesn't mean that they should.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702864.html?nav=r... |