Stephen G. Breyer & Death Penalty Newsletter
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We Thought the Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Cases Couldn’t Get Worse. We Thought Wrong.
16 Oct 2024 22:03 GMT
… he claims that his death penalty trial was tainted by … Colorado, who advises on death penalty cases around the country … Supreme Court, which brings us to last Wednesday.
I’m remembering Justice Stephen Breyer … force on the federal death penalty in this country, …
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Combining Ethics and Term Limits Strengthens Efforts To Rein in a Supreme Court Run Amok
25 Jul 2024 13:35 GMT
… recent justices—including Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, and Justice Stephen Breyer—have indicated …
Federal law ostensibly holds Supreme Court justices to the same ethical … emergency appeals related to the death penalty. Such a trigger could …
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Stephen Breyer Wants Us All to Get Along—Just Like Supreme Court Justices
05 Apr 2024 13:51 GMT
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Earlier this week, retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer penned an op-ed in … his well-earned anti-death penalty bona fides), Breyer was a hard-liner …
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Justice Breyer sounds alarm over the Supreme Court's direction
18 Mar 2024 12:03 GMT
WASHINGTON — Justice Stephen Breyer’s Supreme Court chambers are not quite … about the direction of the Supreme Court.
Sign up for The … 26, the day the Supreme Court hears its next major … death penalty, he did not adopt the practice of some earlier justices …
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Supreme Court avoided disaster when a chunk of marble fell in a courtyard used by justices
17 Oct 2023 22:33 GMT
… Supreme Court's newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who replaced former Justice Stephen Breyer after …
Roper v. Simmons
- Topic: death penalty for minors
- Case decided …
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Supreme Court sides with Arizona in death penalty cases
23 May 2022 19:51 GMT
… ruling May 23, the Supreme Court said two Arizona death- … written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor and joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena … the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 says … both men, citing the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in …
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From bananas to baby socks, lawyers stick to routines before Supreme Court arguments
30 Sep 2023 12:33 GMT
… Supreme Court's newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who replaced former Justice Stephen Breyer after …
Roper v. Simmons
- Topic: death penalty for minors
- Case decided …
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Kennedy’s Supreme Court legacy is being erased, in part by past clerks
03 Sep 2023 10:56 GMT
… were judges of wisdom,” wrote Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena … former executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Most prominent is … .
Six of the nine justices are former Supreme Court clerks. Chemerinsky believes Roberts …
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Judge who blocked Trump deportations took junket to event with anti-Trump speakers, sponsor
22 Mar 2025 00:00 GMT
… pick to the U.S Supreme Court, Justice Brett Cavanaugh. In 2020, … Francis' statements condemning the death penalty.
The Rodel Institute's … seminal readings from Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Antonin Scalia, Professor …
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The Supreme Court makes almost all of its decisions on the 'shadow docket.' An author argues it should worry Americans more than luxury trips.
06 Jul 2023 22:45 GMT
… amid a spur of death penalty cases that, given the life …
In other words, the justices are expanding the Supreme Court's power while … the country.
Former Supreme Court justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer join Chief Justice John Roberts and …