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Group questions Justice Scalia’s impartiality on campaign finance cases

Conflict & Justice

A year ago, the Supreme Court decided on one of the most controversial campaign finance cases in recent history. Now, a liberal group, Common Cause, has filed a petition arguing that Justices Scalia and Thomas should be taken off campaign finance cases.

An attendee takes a photograph of the Google self-driving vehicle outside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California May 13, 2014.

Should we have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on the Net?

Environment

Police in Ohio, 26 other states using facial recognition software in secret

Global Politics

Justice Kennedy expected to play crucial role in spate of upcoming Supreme Court decisions

Global Politics

U.S. appeals court strikes down Congressional ban on political ads on public broadcasting

Global Politics
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Making Google forget

Business, Economics and Jobs

Personal information released on the internet can be nearly impossible to erase. Some people are trying to force Google and Facebook to forget.

Google’s gatekeepers

Environment

Law professor says free speech on the Internet is controlled by Google’s Nicole Wong, known within the halls of Google as “The Decider.”

Supreme Court wrap up

Global Politics

In the final weeks of this year’s term, the US Supreme Court was sharply divided on the death penalty, guns and Guantanamo Bay.

Justice Denied at Guantanamo Bay

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: 45-square-miles of complex legal questions, where the Constitution may (or may not) apply, and where, as of Wednesday, May 1st, 100 of the 166 detainees are on hunger strike.   In 2008, in the case Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court ruled that habeas corpus — the constitutional right to have a court […]

Affirmative Action to Warrantless Wiretapping: The Upcoming Supreme Court Term

Today, just a few months after the Supreme Court announced its decision on the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the most important opinion in decades, the Court begins its 2012-2013 term. While the Court has announced only half of the cases it will hear over the next nine months, Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law at George […]

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