Judiciary News

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Alito Sees No Wrong in All-White Juries
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
The Supreme Court nominee has a troubling past when it comes to equal rights and race.

No Smoke, No Fire
By Emily Bazelon on jurisprudence
"If I had direct evidence that I'd been denied a promotion because my boss preferred a guy because he was a guy, I might be content to have Judge Samuel Alito review my case on appeal after I'd brought suit. He'd read the record closely. He might even dust off a worthwhile claim that the trial judge had impatiently tossed out below."

Stay Out of My Sock Drawer
The Supreme Court asks if a wife can let the police look for her husband's drugs.
By Dahlia Lithwick
"One of the problems with the overheated debate over the nomination of Samuel Alito is that it invariably leads to a vision of the Supreme Court as madly political and combative, conjuring up images of Antonin Scalia crouched behind the bench with a grenade pin in his mouth, while Stephen Breyer leaps onto a counsel table brandishing an Uzi above his head. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth."

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