Tweet Prosecutors abandoned their 30 year pursuit to execute the convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. The former Black Panther claimed that he was a victim of a racist legal system. As a result, he would spend the rest of his life in prison. He wrote and broadcasted from death row, which placed him at the center of a debate on capital punishment.... 

Tweet A federal appeals court upheld the health care law last Tuesday. The decision was made by a prominent conservative jurist. Obama’s Affordable Care Act was set to be considered by the Supreme Court. This is the third out of the four appellate court rulings that dealt with the law on its merits and the second one that upheld it. Judge Laurence H.... 

Tweet A United States court ruling stating that the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law was unconstitutional will be vacated as moot. This was the decision of a federal appeals court last Thursday. The decision came nine days after the law that banned gays from serving openly in the military was repealed. At present, the United States armed forces wouldn’t... 

Tweet A Virginia federal appeals court said that the dispute over whether the federal government can require the citizens to get medical insurance should be put off for at least three years until the taxpayers are hit with a penalty. It rejected the two challenges against the healthcare law. The Virginia court ruled that judges couldn’t rule on any... 

Tweet According to Bill Clinton, it is necessary to consider someone for the Supreme Court who has never been a judge. It turned out that President Barack Obama uses just the same model that was followed by Clinton. At that time the former president was trying to persuade Mario Cuomo, New York Gov. along with George Mitchell, Senate Majority Leader, to...