washingtonpost.com - Full Court PressFull Court PressPOW Claims Bump Into Foreign Policy- April 23, 2005 The Bush administration is arguing that the reconstruction of post-Hussein Iraq would be set back if the new government has to pay damages to a group of American POWs from the Gulf War.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23576-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpag... A Case of Church and State and the States- April 23, 2005 A year and a half ago, in a landmark ruling on school vouchers, the Supreme Court decided that the Constitution permits indirect state funding of religious education. Now, in one of the most closely watched cases of this term, the question before the court is whether the Constitution sometimes requires it.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23649-2003Nov30.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpa... Serving in the Chief Justice's Shadow- April 23, 2005 William H. Rehnquist's administrative assistant, Sally M. Rider, plays a quiet but vital support role at the Supreme Court. Recently, she has been one of the few people with daily access to Rehnquist during his illness.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3163-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage... Will Telemarketer's Claims Ring True- April 23, 2005 The Supreme Court deals with its share of hypertechnical legal matters, but there's nothing abstract about the subject of today's oral argument: telemarketing.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30032-2003Mar2.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpag... Rehnquist's Health and Vote Contingencies- April 23, 2005 The chief justice has announced that he will not vote in the 12 cases the Supreme Court heard during the first two weeks of November, unless the case would end up in a 4 to 4 tie without his participation.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43003-2005Jan2.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpag... High Court Yields to High Holy Days- April 23, 2005 It will not be business as usual for the Supreme Court when the first Monday in October arrives this year on Oct. 6.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8393-2003Aug31.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpag... Justices to Hear Cattle Producers' Beef on Ads- April 23, 2005 "Beef -- It's What's for Dinner." You could easily imagine some people objecting to that familiar ad -- a vegetarian, perhaps, or a New England fisherman. But surely no one who makes a living off the production of steaks and chops would have anything against it, righthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38039-2004Dec5.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpag... A Cowgirl's Sense of the Court- April 23, 2005 To enter Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's office at the Supreme Court is to be reminded immediately of her origins on the remote Lazy B ranch in the desert Southwest.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13698-2003May4.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpag... Justices Too Tightlipped on Their Health- April 23, 2005 Among the many issues raised by the Supreme Court's recent disclosure that William H. Rehnquist has cancer is how much information the court owes the public about the chief justice's health.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14368-2004Oct31.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpa... On Further Review, It's Hard to Bury Douglas's Arlington Claim- April 23, 2005 In the matter of Justice William O. Douglas's claim to a soldier's grave at Arlington National Cemetery, the plot thickens.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5692-2003Feb13.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpag... |