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Filling the federal bench – latimes.com
Obama needs to fight harder, and the Senate needs to give his nominees up-or-down votes. The federal judicial bench is dangerously understaffed: 10% of district judgeships lie vacant and 8% of appellate judgeships languish unoccupied. Meanwhile, the press of federal judicial business has become so great that the Administrative Office …
Defeating DOMA — case by case – The Washington Post
IN 2007, EDITH Windsor married Thea Spyer, her partner of 42 years, in Canada. Two years later, Ms. Spyer died. If the New York couple had been been man and woman, Ms. Windsor wouldn’t have been hit with a big estate tax bill. But they were two women, and the …
The Supreme Court forbids cameras in the courtroom, but twice rogue photographers have snapped a picture of the justices at work. – Slate Magazine
The long lost photos of the Supreme Court at work—and what they reveal. At 10:07 a.m. on June 28, 2012, more than 5 million people were glued to SCOTUSblog, a popular legal website, waiting to receive word of the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care …