SCOTUS has taken the case and lowered the $2.5 billion punitive damages award. Punitive damages are designed to punish a wrongdoer, while compensatory damages compensate a wronged party for the loss they suffered. From CNN:

A very close call — Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States, by a vote that was a real squeaker, restored our most basic Constitutional right, habeas corpus.

Jonathan Turley discusses both sides of the SCOTUS aisle on yesterdays ruling that Gitmo detainees have the right to Habeas Corpus.

i know that i have been remiss in posting. i have been taking a step back because of a variety of reasons- not the least being i hate summer but, as summer winds down- i guess i should get back into the fray. i don’t know what all of the answers are to the [...]

Once upon a time, there was a Place called the Department of Justice. It was a noble institution, one we could always be sure would do the right thing and that politicization of the Department would never occur to taint their decisions or prosecutions….
Those days of old are gone sportfans..seriously..they have been for over six [...]

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Tangled in the Sticky Wicket of the Bushco State, Court Says “Do Not Pass Go”
Last week’s most distressing ~ or more precisely, frightening ~ news was that two Republican appointed judges of the Sixth Circuit reached what strikes me as a Kafka-esque ruling in denying a group of Plaintiffs who [...]

Justice Anthony Kennedy loves his job. He loves being the center of attention. He sits squarely in the catbird seat as it were, able to single-handedly affect change as no other individual in our government…this side of George Bush of course. He has more power than the head Supreme, Justice Roberts, because with the rest [...]

Today the highest court in the land shit on the first amendment once regarding students, and then turned around and allowed swiftboaters to continue to do their dirty work.
Explain those two rulings to me and how they don’t contradict each other someone, anyone. In fact, explain the four rulings to me today..as this article in [...]