Mark A. Ciavarella From Rolling Out: Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, 63, serves as an example of why the private prison industry can do more harm than good. Ciavarella worked alongside owners of private juvenile facilities to ensure that the prison remained occupied. The more prisoners equated to more profits for…
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From ThinkProgress: Here are just four ways that Romney’s appointees would vote to effectively rewrite the Constitution if given the chance to do so: Eliminating The Right To An Abortion: Roe v. Wade is already on life support. The Court’s current majority weakened the longstanding rule ensuring that women may…
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From Mother Jones: By several measures, the court headed by Chief Justice John Roberts is the most conservative since the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon named Warren Burger to replace the famously liberal Earl Warren. Not only is its most conservative member (Clarence Thomas) nearly as conservative as the Burger…
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From TPM: Appellate Court Judge Jerry Smith, presiding over a three-judge panel hearing a separate challenge to the health care law, lit into an Obama administration attorney. “Does the Department of Justice recognize that federal courts have the authority in appropriate circumstances to strike federal statutes because of one or…
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