Congress and the Supreme Court are moving toward reining in the Bush administration's gratuitously harsh and arbitrary treatment of suspected enemy combatants. Better late than never.
Emergency appeals have become the tool of choice for the conservative movement.
The justices rejected a bid by Democrats to throw out the rule that Republicans have repeatedly used to block legislation. Now, it could be the Democrats who soon benefit.
The U.S. Supreme Court has spent a decade limiting the harshest sentence given to juvenile offenders. But state supreme courts are still grappling with how those rulings should play out.
“Understandably, after almost 250 years, the legislature is tired of being a coequal branch of government and wants to take a nap.”
A judge in Illinois temporarily put the initiative on hold while legal proceedings continue.