TheSupremeCourtoftheUnitedStates: Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful NominationsofSupremeCourt Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1916-.
TheSupremeCourt is thecourtof last resort in theUnitedStates.
Included in these databases are: opinions authored or joined by the justice from theSupremeCourt and lower federal and state courts, opinions from cases in which the justice was the attorney of record, Congressional testimony regarding the justice’s nomination totheCourt and selected articles by the justice.
The Federalist Society now counts Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), SupremeCourt Justice Antonin Scalia, and prominent members ofthe conservative American Enterprise Institute among its leadership.
From the dramatic increase in wealth inequality in theUnitedStates, tothe wholesale giveaway ofthe nation's natural resources, tothe Bush administration's attack on corporate and political accountability, events and trends that ought to be dominating the presidential campaign and the national dialogue are missing from the front pages.
But one ofthe principal victims has been the democratic process itself: remember, it was theSupremeCourt that stopped a hand count of 175,000 uncounted (largely Democratic) ballots in Florida, which could have cost Bush the 2000 presidential election.
An appendix lists all SupremeCourtnominations and Acts of Congress held unconstitutional to 1989.
Lists and indexes all public bills and resolutions of general interest and reports their progress from introduction to final disposition.
A chronological listing of births, deaths, events, and works of British literature indicating "...the extent of literary activity and literary related events in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales during a specific year, decade, or century." (Introduction) Coverage is from 516 A.D. to 1979.
An appendix lists all SupremeCourtnominations and Acts of Congress held unconstitutional to 1989.
Lists and indexes all public bills and resolutions of general interest and reports their progress from introduction to final disposition.
A chronological listing of births, deaths, events, and works of British literature indicating "...the extent of literary activity and literary related events in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales during a specific year, decade, or century." (Introduction) Coverage is from 516 A.D. to 1979.
An appendix lists all SupremeCourtnominations and Acts of Congress held unconstitutional to 1989.
Lists and indexes all public bills and resolutions of general interest and reports their progress from introduction to final disposition.
A chronological listing of births, deaths, events, and works of British literature indicating "...the extent of literary activity and literary related events in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales during a specific year, decade, or century." (Introduction) Coverage is from 516 A.D. to 1979.
He has spent 15 years of fine public service on the federal appeals bench and almost a decade of work before that as a federal prosecutor, serving the people oftheUnitedStates and enforcing the law.
He has the mandate ofthe election to pick the ideological bent ofthe replacements for any opening on theCourt; there is no quota system for leftists, centrists, and conservatives, nor have Presidents been particularly apt at guessing which categories their nominees would fill in the long run anyway.
The President won election twice, and at least during the last election, SupremeCourtnominations clearly were a major issue.
By contrast, many ofthe reforms concerning nominationsof candidates within parties in theUnitedStates have involved legislation, by state governments, as well as legal rulings by theSupremeCourt.
In theUnitedStates, there have been special efforts to ensure that blacks have been able to participate in the processes by which parties have chosen their candidates; there have also been attempts to ensure that larger numbers of blacks have succeeded in gaining nominations.
For instance, a device intended to guarantee more female candidates in winnable constituencies within the British Labour Party has been for the national organization to dictate to certain local Labour organizations that they must choose from a short listof applicants, all of whom must be women.
Just as Hitler was installed (but not elected by the German people) as the Fuehrer, so George W. Bush was installed as President oftheUnitedStates by a conservative SupremeCourt.
The length ofthe eerie listof similarities between Hitler and Bush may have more than a bit ofthe coincidental about it, but the coincidences themselves are rooted in an underlying homology--a parallel dynamic that gets set in motion once a government embarks on a course like this.
From Alcoa's O'Neil as Secretary of Treasury to Enron's White as the Secretary of Army, this administration represents Totalitarian Corporatism.
