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Handwritten notes from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's papers on a major abortion case in 1989. The correspondence and notes foreshadow where O’Connor landed in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey case, when Justice Anthony Kennedy, hostile to Roe v. Wade in 1989, was ready to join O’Connor in upholding Roe. Accelerating the tensions all around was the time pressure of the Missouri case. O’Connor wrote that Kennedy said, “Roe is just flawed analytically” and that he wanted to “return this debate to democratic process” in the states. Library of CongressDraft opinion language from Justice John Paul Stevens he sent to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Persons: Sandra O’Connor, eviscerate Roe, Wade, O’Connor, Roe, Antonin Scalia, William Rehnquist, Rehnquist, — Webster, Reproductive Health Services —, ” Rehnquist, Sandra Day, George H.W, Reagan, bristled, , Scalia, John Paul Stevens, Gerald Ford, Casey, Anthony Kennedy, Dobbs, Samuel Alito, Webster, Kennedy, “ Nino, ” Scalia, ” O’Connor, “ Roe, O’Connor’s, Roe “, Byron White, , Byron, Sandra, Nino, Tony …, White, Sandra Day O'Connor, Congress O’Connor, bemoaning, overruling Roe, ” Stevens, reexamine Roe, reconsidering Roe, Stevens, Stevens ’, inched, John . ”, , William Brennan, David Souter, Bush Organizations: CNN, Reproductive Health Services, Congress, Library, O’Connor, Stanford Law School, Roe, Chicago, Stevens, Kennedy Locations: Missouri, Roe, Bush, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Phoenix, Minnesota
A Kentucky man who used a flagpole to batter a door near the House chamber during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was found guilty in federal court in Washington on Wednesday on nine counts, including civil disorder and disruption of an official proceeding, prosecutors said. During the encounter, which was captured on video from multiple angles, rioters came close enough to lock eyes with lawmakers, separated only by a few officers and antique wood-and-glass doors. Judge Richard J. Leon of the Federal District Court in Washington found Mr. Jones guilty after a bench trial on two felony and seven misdemeanor charges, including the destruction of government property. The judge denied the government’s request to treat the flagpole that Mr. Jones was carrying as a dangerous weapon, reducing four of the six felony counts that he had initially faced to misdemeanors. “We were disappointed in the verdict, but we understand and respect the judge’s decision,” William Brennan, a lawyer for Mr. Jones, said in an interview.
Persons: Chad Barrett Jones, Ashli Babbitt, Richard J, Leon, Jones, ” William Brennan Organizations: Air Force, Capitol Police, Federal, Court Locations: Kentucky, Washington, Mount Washington, Ky
Opinion | Speech We Loathe Is Speech We Must Defend
  + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In the late 1950s, the Rhode Island legislature created a commission “to encourage morality in youth.” One of its practices was to send notices to out-of-state distributors and retailers of publications it deemed obscene, asking for “cooperation” in suppressing them. The notices warned that the commission had circulated lists of objectionable materials to local police departments, and that it would recommend prosecution against those found to be purveying obscenity. The case went to the Supreme Court. With one dissent, the justices in Bantam Books Inc. v. Sullivan (1963) held that the “informal censorship” violated the 14th Amendment. They also noted that it didn’t matter that the Rhode Island commission had no real power beyond “informal sanctions.”“People do not lightly disregard public officers’ thinly veiled threats to institute criminal proceedings against them if they do not come around,” noted Justice William Brennan, a fierce liberal, in his opinion.
Persons: Sullivan, , , William Brennan, Biden, Terry Doughty Organizations: , Supreme, Bantam Books Inc Locations: Rhode, Missouri, Louisiana
April 3 (Reuters) - A fugitive and former top aide to former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan was killed in Tennessee after a confrontation with the FBI, the Washington Post reported, citing the former aide's lawyer. The Baltimore Sun said he was shot but it was uncertain whether it was self-inflicted or by the FBI. The FBI said in a statement it was reviewing an agent-involved shooting, the Post reported. The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously," the FBI statement said. Hogan said in a statement he and his wife, Yumi Hogan, were saddened by the "tragic situation," the Baltimore Sun reported.
Twitter’s Duty to Protect Free Speech
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Ro Khanna | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Defending free speech is easy when it’s speech you agree with. Defending speech you dislike, or speech that doesn’t advance your interests, is more challenging. But it is in exactly those uncomfortable situations that American democratic principles call on us to protect the free exchange of ideas and freedom of the press. Free speech is a foundational value of our democracy. Attacks on public officials and candidates for office have continued.
A full jury has now been selected to sit on the criminal tax-fraud trial of Donald Trump's business. Trump's company, the Trump Organization, is facing multiple charges, including scheme to defraud. "This is not about Donald Trump," but about his business, said Hoffinger, who is chief investigator for the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Two women who were chosen to sit on the jury on Monday said in court that they didn't like how Trump ran the country. One man was excused from the jury pool on Thursday after saying that Trump made him sick to his guts.
The Trump Organization — not Trump himself — is on trial for tax evasion in New York Supreme Court. I mean I can't deny it, I really, really don't like Trump at all," the woman, a native of Ireland, told Trump Organization lawyer William Brennan. The Trump Organization — not Trump himself — is on trial. "We all have an opinion about Donald Trump, but I don't have an opinion about his company," a marketing company CEO said. Steinglass continued, "You'll notice that Donald Trump is not sitting here … because Donald Trump is not personally charged. "
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