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• Payback Time: Why Right-Wing Men Rush to Palin's Defense

  …Clarence Thomas when he was first nominated for the Supreme Court . Whatever reservations they may have had about the minorities ……defending G. Harrold Carswell, an undistinguished Supreme Court nominee who was ultimately rejected by the Senate …

  By Eleanor Clift

  11/16/2009Blogs
• Stupak Is as Stupak Does

  …of the top 21 jobs in his administration to women—including Clinton—and he appointed Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court . Obama even created the nation's first-ever U.S. ambassadorship for global women's issues. In their hearts …

  By Deidre Depke

  11/14/2009Politics
• We Can’t Execute Them

  This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case testing whether the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits sentencing a teen to life …

  By Dahlia Lithwick

  11/05/2009Culture
• 18 And a Life To Go

  The U.S. is the only country that sentences juveniles to life in prison without parole. Will the Supreme Court declare it unconstitutional?

  11/04/2009Nation
• I Am Zygote, Hear Me Roar

  …whether defining personhood at the state level would actually create a challenge to Roe . And, even if it did, the Supreme Court could just as well reaffirm the decision, rather than overturn it. A recent statement from the Florida Catholic Conference …

  By Sarah Kliff

  11/02/2009Politics

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