Save the Texas Commandments

The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing arguments on whether a 6-foot-tall Ten Commandments monument can remain on the Texas state Capitol grounds, debated when government may acknowledge the role of religion in public life.
http://www.bloomberg.com/

The US Supreme Court has abolished the death penalty for those who commit murder when under the age of 18.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
After a decade of relative quiet, the U.S. Supreme Court has in the last several years fundamentally reshaped the American capital justice system.
http://www.iht.com

In my case, I've met in America, mostly on campuses and among students, one too many Europeans, Chinese, Indians, Mexicans, Arabs, or Koreans who after becoming a naturalized US citizen or a legal resident alien, begin praising the country they under no circumstance wish to return to while damning the country that they most certainly will not leave under any circumstance.
http://www.victorhanson.com/

A former diplomat for a Communist country and his wife, who claim that the Central Intelligence Agency broke a promise to support them for life in return for spying for the United States, will have to suffer in secret, the Supreme Court said in effect today.
http://www.nytimes.com/

Martha Stewart faces reality with TV show
http://www.msnbc.msn.com

After weeks of legislative brinksmanship and behind-the-scenes negotiations with federal officials, Republican leaders in Utah said on Tuesday that they would delay action on a bill that has attracted nationwide attention as a bellwether challenge to President Bush's signature education law.
http://nytimes.com/

The American Civil Liberties Union, along with Human Rights First, has filed a lawsuit against US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, charging him with violations of the U.S. Constitution and international law prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
http://service.spiegel.de/