Supreme Court

What Do Hipsters and Supreme Court Justices Have in Common?

Posted on 05/15/2013 by | Washington Watch | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsOnly a third of all Americans have a favorable view of the Supreme Court. But at least the justices who sit on the nation’s highest court score better than hipsters. Hipsters — the sometimes grungy young adults with countercultural attitudes and an artistic bent — are looked at favorably by just 16 percent of the public, according a new survey from Public Policy Polling. (Not sure exactly what a hipster is? Here’s a full definition. And here’s a recent New York Times …

How Far Will Protection From Discrimination Slip?

Posted on 04/29/2013 by | News, Culture, Sights and Sounds | Comments

Bulletin Today | Politics | WorkA case argued this month before the U.S. Supreme Court could make it more difficult to win discrimination suits, four years after another decision greatly weakened the 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). The current case is about national origin, not age, but groups, including AARP, have filed “friend of the court” briefs because they see important civil rights issues in play. Related: Age Discrimination Fact Sheet In University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) v. Nassar, Dr. Naiel …

Supreme Court Turns Away Class Action Against Comcast

Posted on 03/27/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Money & Savings | PoliticsBy Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned away a class action lawsuit against cable provider Comcast Corp., in a decision that could make it harder to file those types of lawsuits in federal court. The high court on Wednesday overturned a lower court decision to certify as a class customers who say the company’s monopoly in parts of the Philadelphia area allowed it to raise prices unfairly. Justice Antonin Scalia …

Robert Bork: 6 Facts About the Would-Be Supreme Court Justice

Posted on 12/19/2012 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyRobert H. Bork, who died on Dec. 19 at age 85 in Arlington, Va., is most famous for what he didn’t do: sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork, a former solicitor general in the Nixon administration and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to replace Justice Lewis Powell on the nation’s highest court. The announcement promptly triggered a firestorm of opposition, and Bork’s bruising five-day-long nomination hearing …

Same-Sex Marriage: Parsing Changed Attitudes

Posted on 12/10/2012 by | Washington Watch | Comments

Bulletin Today | Politics | Your LifeGeorge Will may have put it indelicately, but polls back up his contention that the issue of same-sex marriage provokes very different responses by generation. “There is something like an emerging consensus,” the conservative commentator said Dec. 8 on ABC News This Week. “Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying. It’s old people.” Three states recently approved gay marriage by popular vote. And now the Supreme Court (there’s an older demographic) announced it will take up two cases …

Arlen Specter: 5 Ways He Helped to Change History

Posted on 10/14/2012 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyLove him or hate him — and some people, at various times, did both — former Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who died Sunday at age 82 in Philadelphia, was one of the most fascinating figures in modern American politics. Specter served in the U.S. Senate from 1980 to 2011, the longest tenure in his state’s history, and spent most of it befuddling anyone who tried to stick an ideological label on him. From the start he was a Republican, …

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