<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - alito</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/alito</link><description>Newsvine - alito</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:13:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:55:04 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>8 Things Justice Alito Has Ruled on That Are Also Newer Than Cellphones and the Internet</title>
<description><![CDATA[
During oral arguments over the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriage, Justice Samuel Alito offered a novel reason not to find a constitutional right to same-sex marriage: It hasn't been around that long.
"You want us to step in and render a decision based &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/28/17507755-8-things-justice-alito-has-ruled-on-that-are-also-newer-than-cellphones-and-the-internet</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/28/17507755-8-things-justice-alito-has-ruled-on-that-are-also-newer-than-cellphones-and-the-internet</guid><category>gay-marriage</category><category>politics</category><category>prejudice</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>bigotry</category><category>right-wing-lies</category><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:13:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfanDFF135E2-E582-6DE4-88C6-0C7DEB8EC91E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="302" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfanDFF135E2-E582-6DE4-88C6-0C7DEB8EC91E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Alito takes on critics</title>
<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is defending the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case that helped fuel hundreds of millions of dollars of spending by independent groups in the just-concluded campaign season.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Sherman]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Mark Sherman]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/17/15235594-supreme-court-notebook-alito-takes-on-critics</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/17/15235594-supreme-court-notebook-alito-takes-on-critics</guid><category>us</category><category>court</category><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito</category><category>citizens-united</category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:26:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f133dc80-f8ac-4561-bc69-6b4fcd1c5d04.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="312" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f133dc80-f8ac-4561-bc69-6b4fcd1c5d04.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito speaks at Roger Williams University Law School in Bristol, R.I. Alito is defending the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case that helped fuel hundreds of millions of dollars of spending by independent groups in the just-concluded campaign season. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Robert Reich (The Selling of American Democracy: The Perfect Storm)</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Who&rsquo;s buying our democracy? Wall Street financiers, the Koch brothers, and casino magnates Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn.&nbsp;
And they&rsquo;re doing much of it in secret.
It&rsquo;s a perfect storm:
The greatest concentration of wealth in more than a century &mdash&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></source><link>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/13/12725415-robert-reich-the-selling-of-american-democracy-the-perfect-storm</link><guid>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/13/12725415-robert-reich-the-selling-of-american-democracy-the-perfect-storm</guid><category>us</category><category>scalia</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>thomas</category><category>kennedy</category><category>alito</category><category>roberts</category><category>republican</category><category>sheldon-adelson</category><category>trickle-down-economics</category><category>wall-street-financiers</category><category>the-koch-brothers</category><category>non-profit-social-welfare-organizations</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:28:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Class war at the Supreme Court - The Washington Post</title>
<description><![CDATA[
On the eve of the Supreme Court&rsquo;s much anticipated ruling on Obamacare,  here is a simple test for detecting the politics behind a decision: When  reading the rulings, look for the double standards and answers to  questions not posed by the cases themselves. By those meas&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beau7890]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Beau7890]]></source><link>http://beau7890.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/26/12425276-class-war-at-the-supreme-court-the-washington-post</link><guid>http://beau7890.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/26/12425276-class-war-at-the-supreme-court-the-washington-post</guid><category>scalia</category><category>politics</category><category>healthcare</category><category>unions</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>ideology</category><category>knox</category><category>judicial-activism</category><category>citizens-united</category><category>roberts-court</category><category>harold-meyerson</category><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:09:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Beau7890B7714AAA-527B-87B9-0B32-45B20C09F34B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="60" width="90" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Beau7890B7714AAA-527B-87B9-0B32-45B20C09F34B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="90" height="60" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Alito, the Hypocrite</title>
<description><![CDATA[
It's bad enough that Justice Alito is wrong so often, but it's worse that he doesn't even pretend to have any semblance of consistency.
Here he is, Monday, reading from the bench parts of his decision on juvenile sentencing:
Alito noted that 17-year-olds committed an average &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/26/12423031-alito-the-hypocrite</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/26/12423031-alito-the-hypocrite</guid><category>politics</category><category>juveniles</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>insanity</category><category>right-wing-extremism</category><category>life-sentences</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:19:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfan5DBAF543-67F9-2287-20FB-405887EF074A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="256" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfan5DBAF543-67F9-2287-20FB-405887EF074A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Alito Stands Up For Mandatory Life Sentences For Juvenile Murderers </title>
<description><![CDATA[
Among the several big decisions delivered today, including a partial overturning of Arizona&rsquo;s SB 1070 and a defense of Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles convicted of murder violate the Eighth Amendmen&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/25/12404254-alito-stands-up-for-mandatory-life-sentences-for-juvenile-murderers</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/25/12404254-alito-stands-up-for-mandatory-life-sentences-for-juvenile-murderers</guid><category>politics</category><category>juveniles</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>insanity</category><category>right-wing-extremism</category><category>life-sentences</category><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:17:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>LEES: Supreme folly</title>
<description><![CDATA[
&ldquo;&hellip; When people choose not to buy broccoli, they don&rsquo;t make broccoli unavailable to those who want it. But when people don&rsquo;t buy health insurance until they get sick&hellip; the resulting worsening of the risk pool makes insurance more expensive, and oft&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[McSpocky]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[McSpocky]]></source><link>http://illuminate.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/04/11015302-lees-supreme-folly</link><guid>http://illuminate.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/04/11015302-lees-supreme-folly</guid><category>scotus</category><category>scalia</category><category>politics</category><category>thomas</category><category>kennedy</category><category>alito</category><category>us-supreme-court</category><category>roberts</category><category>broccoli</category><category>charles-koch</category><category>david-koch</category><category>supreme-court-of-the-united-states</category><category>obamacare</category><category>affordable-care-act</category><category>koch-brothers</category><category>infamous-koch-brothers</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:56:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=illuminate8D9BB756-255F-C0F6-B0F0-1955BE46CE9D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=illuminate8D9BB756-255F-C0F6-B0F0-1955BE46CE9D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Will a Tea Party Supreme Court guarantee Obama a second term? ~~~ Eating Broccoli?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Recall the scorn toward health reform dripping from the lips of Injustice Antonin Scalia. Or think of the tight-lipped Clarence Thomas, who could send a mannequin to sit in his place at the court's oral arguments for all the difference his brooding presence makes. Along with the &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jade-log]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jade-log]]></source><link>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/02/10986973-will-a-tea-party-supreme-court-guarantee-obama-a-second-term-eating-broccoli</link><guid>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/02/10986973-will-a-tea-party-supreme-court-guarantee-obama-a-second-term-eating-broccoli</guid><category>scotus</category><category>scalia</category><category>revenge</category><category>politics</category><category>thomas</category><category>alito</category><category>judicial-activism</category><category>red-queen</category><category>bush-v-gore</category><category>obamacare</category><category>revanchism</category><category>indiv-mandate</category><category>verdict-then-trial</category><category>cit-unit</category><pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:43:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jade-log39E368FB-C194-75B7-7F08-18EA2092F1A4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="145" width="145" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jade-log39E368FB-C194-75B7-7F08-18EA2092F1A4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Justice Scalia briefing papers: Right-wing blogs</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Quite possibly the most depressing spectacle of three days of Supreme Court arguments on the Affordable Care Act was the very apparent fact that Justice Antonin Scalia gets his information from right-wing blogs. That and Justice Samuel Alito's vast ignorance of how things in re&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10961505-justice-scalia-briefing-papers-right-wingblogs</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10961505-justice-scalia-briefing-papers-right-wingblogs</guid><category>scalia</category><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>ginsburg</category><category>aca</category><category>right-wing-lies</category><category>right-wing-blogs</category><category>right-wing-ignorance</category><pubDate>Sun, 1 Apr 2012 01:28:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfanE2DA5AD0-A169-8202-DC6E-F34152EE4359.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="344" width="275" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfanE2DA5AD0-A169-8202-DC6E-F34152EE4359.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="150" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Supreme Court Health Care Law: Justices Come Down Hard On The Mandate</title>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- After the Supreme Court oral arguments in the health care case Tuesday morning, the Obama administration better start preparing for the possibility of a future without the individual mandate.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[trekie70]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[trekie70]]></source><link>http://trekie70.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/27/10893122-supreme-court-health-care-law-justices-come-down-hard-on-the-mandate</link><guid>http://trekie70.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/27/10893122-supreme-court-health-care-law-justices-come-down-hard-on-the-mandate</guid><category>scalia</category><category>health</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>obama</category><category>alito</category><category>health-care-mandate</category><category>severability-clause</category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:25:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=trekie70DBEE55FE-1AE0-73A9-8082-A157494399A8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="82" width="112" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=trekie70DBEE55FE-1AE0-73A9-8082-A157494399A8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="112" height="82" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Super PACs and the law of intended consequences</title>
<description><![CDATA[
As a percentage of the total voting population, campaign donors are a rare breed. In October of 2011, President Barack Obama's campaign passed the 1 million donor mark for his reelection campaign (he had some 3 million donors in 2008).]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></source><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/04/10575677-super-pacs-and-the-law-of-intendedconsequences</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/04/10575677-super-pacs-and-the-law-of-intendedconsequences</guid><category>scotus</category><category>scalia</category><category>politics</category><category>thomas</category><category>kennedy</category><category>gingrich</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>roberts</category><category>romney</category><category>lessig</category><category>campaign-finance-reform</category><category>ginsberg</category><category>center-for-public-integrity</category><category>citizens-united</category><category>sheldon-adelson</category><category>super-pacs</category><pubDate>Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:23:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Supreme Court Weighs &quot;Policing Curse Words on TV&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[
(AP)&nbsp; Updated at 2:36 p.m.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Desert Rattler]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Desert Rattler]]></source><link>http://the-desert-rattler.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/12/10141265-supreme-court-weighs-policing-curse-words-on-tv</link><guid>http://the-desert-rattler.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/12/10141265-supreme-court-weighs-policing-curse-words-on-tv</guid><category>abc</category><category>fcc</category><category>television</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>roberts</category><category>us-news</category><category>nicole-richie</category><category>washington-dc</category><category>top-news</category><category>lifestyle</category><category>1st-amendment</category><category>cher</category><category>saving-private-ryan</category><category>curse-words</category><category>phoenic</category><category>justice-kagan</category><category>stixons</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:59:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=the-desert-rattler2772A0B2-1418-759A-C746-84B502DDC6A9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="180" width="320" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=the-desert-rattler2772A0B2-1418-759A-C746-84B502DDC6A9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, 1989 to Present</title>
<description><![CDATA[From abortion and the right to bear arms to nude dancing to military commissions, the Supreme Court has shaped modern life.&nbsp; This excellent comparison chart shows you which of the Supreme Court justices sit to the left, to the right, and on the winning or losing side in each&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[charles carreon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[charles carreon]]></source><link>http://charlescarreon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/05/9980586-landmark-decisions-of-the-united-states-supreme-court-1989-to-present</link><guid>http://charlescarreon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/05/9980586-landmark-decisions-of-the-united-states-supreme-court-1989-to-present</guid><category>scalia</category><category>rumsfeld</category><category>abortion</category><category>politics</category><category>stewart</category><category>breyer</category><category>kennedy</category><category>gonzales</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>stevens</category><category>alito</category><category>roberts</category><category>second-amendment</category><category>rehnquist</category><category>oconnor</category><category>souter</category><category>ginsburg</category><category>hamdan</category><category>blackmun</category><category>military-commissions</category><category>nude-dancing</category><pubDate>Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:22:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>3 Questions for Justice Alito About Native American Concerns - Andrew Cohen - Politics - The Atlantic</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Aug 21 2011, 10:21 AM ET Comment
Surprise, surprise! United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was in South Dakota this past week. He is the justice assigned to the 8th U.S. Circuit, which comprises South Dakota and five other states.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Waterwynd]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Waterwynd]]></source><link>http://waterwynd.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/21/7433695-3-questions-for-justice-alito-about-native-american-concerns-andrew-cohen-politics-the-atlantic</link><guid>http://waterwynd.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/21/7433695-3-questions-for-justice-alito-about-native-american-concerns-andrew-cohen-politics-the-atlantic</guid><category>alito</category><category>us-news</category><category>south-dakota</category><category>native-americans</category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:08:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=waterwyndE6897A95-EAA6-984F-0E9D-E380DA754DEC.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="330" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=waterwyndE6897A95-EAA6-984F-0E9D-E380DA754DEC.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="99" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>OpEdNews - Article: The Corporate Supreme Court; Time For Impeachment</title>
<description><![CDATA[Five Supreme Court Justices--Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito and Kennedy  are entrenching, in a whirlwind of judicial dictates, judicial  legislating and sheer ideological judgments, a mega-corporate supremacy  over the rights and remedies of individuals.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></source><link>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/18/7107085-opednews-article-the-corporate-supreme-court-time-for-impeachment</link><guid>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/18/7107085-opednews-article-the-corporate-supreme-court-time-for-impeachment</guid><category>chevron</category><category>scalia</category><category>gm</category><category>politics</category><category>citigroup</category><category>thomas</category><category>monsanto</category><category>pfizer</category><category>kennedy</category><category>aetna</category><category>alito</category><category>roberts</category><category>exxon-valdez</category><category>bush-v-gore</category><category>supreme-court-justices</category><category>citizens-united-v-fec</category><category>koch-brothers</category><category>ideological-judgments</category><category>mega-corporate-supremacy</category><category>blocking-class-actions</category><category>state-common-law</category><category>extrajudicial-activities</category><category>corporate-privilege</category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:44:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Alito owned stock, voted in case with Disney's ABC</title>
<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took part in a case over curse words on television involving ABC Inc. and other networks even though he owned stock in ABC's parent, Walt Disney Co., at the time.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Sherman]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Mark Sherman]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/31/6757213-alito-owned-stock-voted-in-case-with-disneys-abc</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/31/6757213-alito-owned-stock-voted-in-case-with-disneys-abc</guid><category>us</category><category>stock</category><category>court</category><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito</category><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 21:34:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Roberts and Alito Speak Softly but Carry a Big Gavel</title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberals used to think Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia were the scariest justices on the Court. Then came George W. Bush's appointees.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/22/6512901-roberts-and-alito-speak-softly-but-carry-a-big-gavel</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/22/6512901-roberts-and-alito-speak-softly-but-carry-a-big-gavel</guid><category>scalia</category><category>politics</category><category>thomas</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>roberts</category><category>activist-judges</category><category>right-wing-extremists</category><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:51:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Court Refuses to Extend &quot;Sovereign Immunity&quot; Doctrine</title>
<description><![CDATA[For anyone who still believes against all evidence that Roberts and Alito are closet moderates, they were the only justices in this case who believed that the "dignity" of the state of Virginia should trump the real dignity of the citizens who are likely dead today and those who &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/19/6497108-court-refuses-to-extend-sovereign-immunity-doctrine</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/19/6497108-court-refuses-to-extend-sovereign-immunity-doctrine</guid><category>scalia</category><category>disabled</category><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>roberts</category><category>states-rights</category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:20:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Alito is court's lonely voice on First Amendment</title>
<description><![CDATA[Alone among his colleagues, Justice Samuel Alito chose privacy over free speech Wednesday in the Supreme Court's consideration of protests at military funerals.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Sherman]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Mark Sherman]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/02/6172438-alito-is-courts-lonely-voice-on-first-amendment</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/02/6172438-alito-is-courts-lonely-voice-on-first-amendment</guid><category>us</category><category>court</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>us-news</category><category>justice-samuel-alito</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 Mar 2011 20:49:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/37a4f956-1625-4fd2-a90a-91415358b844.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="368" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/37a4f956-1625-4fd2-a90a-91415358b844.jpg" width="120" height="111" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this June 6, 2009 file photo, protesters from Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church demonstrate during funeral services for Dr. George Tiller at College Hill United Methodist Church in Wichita, Kan. In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the group's protests were protected by the First Amendment. The father of a Marine killed in Iraq sued after they picketed his son's 2006 funeral service.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c6da787c-c8f9-450b-a8bb-7bd86b283cd7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="363" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c6da787c-c8f9-450b-a8bb-7bd86b283cd7.jpg" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito speaks at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Alone among his colleagues, Alito chose privacy over free speech Wednesday in the Supreme Court's consideration of protests at military funerals.  (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Bet on the high court upholding the health-care law</title>
<description><![CDATA[The striking down of the Health Care Law may may not be as much of a sure thing as opponents think.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[trekie70]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[trekie70]]></source><link>http://trekie70.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/21/6101815-bet-on-the-high-court-upholding-the-health-care-law</link><guid>http://trekie70.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/21/6101815-bet-on-the-high-court-upholding-the-health-care-law</guid><category>health</category><category>health-care</category><category>alito</category><category>roberts</category><category>mandate</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:54:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Supreme Court justices set to boycott Obama's State of the Union address as President opens his 2012 re-election bid  </title>
<description><![CDATA[ A number of  Supreme Court justices may boycott tonight's State of the Union speech after being targeted in a stinging rebuke by President Obama a year ago.
Judge Samuel Alito is skipping the address to lecture students in Hawaii and Chief Justice John Roberts was leaving his d&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Soph0571]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Soph0571]]></source><link>http://smd12364.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/25/5914236-supreme-court-justices-set-to-boycott-obamas-state-of-the-union-address-as-president-opens-his-2012-re-election-bid</link><guid>http://smd12364.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/25/5914236-supreme-court-justices-set-to-boycott-obamas-state-of-the-union-address-as-president-opens-his-2012-re-election-bid</guid><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>chief-justice-roberts</category><category>state-of-the-union</category><category>president-obama</category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:12:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Roberts, Alito Face Tough Choice on Whether to Attend SOTU</title>
<description><![CDATA[Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito face a difficult choice on whether to attend President Obama's State of the Union address next week. Alito and Roberts, who were both nominated by former President George W.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S.-1381946]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[John S.-1381946]]></source><link>http://js10131979.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/23/5904246-roberts-alito-face-tough-choice-on-whether-to-attend-sotu</link><guid>http://js10131979.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/23/5904246-roberts-alito-face-tough-choice-on-whether-to-attend-sotu</guid><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>alito</category><category>roberts</category><category>partisan</category><category>state-of-the-union</category><category>pep-rally-obama</category><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:11:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: State of Union no-show</title>
<description><![CDATA[When Supreme Court justices enter the House of Representatives in their black robes for the president's next State of the Union address, Samuel Alito does not plan to be among them.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Sherman]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Mark Sherman]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/16/5300109-supreme-court-notebook-state-of-union-no-show</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/16/5300109-supreme-court-notebook-state-of-union-no-show</guid><category>us</category><category>court</category><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>samuel-alito</category><category>alito</category><category>when-supreme-court</category><pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:28:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/3004ab5a-f871-4123-b062-85446c0708b8.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="363" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/3004ab5a-f871-4123-b062-85446c0708b8.jpg" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010  file photo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito speaks about constitutional law during a lecture at Drake University, in Des Moines, Iowa. When Supreme Court justices enter the House of Representatives in their black robes for the president's next State of the Union address, Samuel Alito does not plan to be among them.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/954881fc-6e32-49a6-b97b-0650c3db9de2.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="429" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/954881fc-6e32-49a6-b97b-0650c3db9de2.jpg" width="120" height="129" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to deliver his State of the Union address as Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito, bottom left, Anthony Kennedy, center left, and Chief Justice John Roberts, right, applaud. When Supreme Court justices enter the House of Representatives for the president's next State of the Union address, Alito says he will not be among them. He said the annual speech to Congress has become very political and awkward for the justices, who are expected to sit &quot;like the proverbial potted plant.&quot; (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/85828a91-afaa-4639-8a9c-1418c294c892.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="422" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/85828a91-afaa-4639-8a9c-1418c294c892.jpg" width="120" height="127" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, left, and Sonia Sotomayor, center, are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. When Supreme Court justices enter the House of Representatives in their black robes for the president's next State of the Union address, Alito says he will not be among them. He said the annual speech to Congress has become very political and awkward for the justices, who are expected to sit &quot;like the proverbial potted plant.&quot;  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/74a4d2a1-1650-4d39-a974-a20d19082bd9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="413" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/74a4d2a1-1650-4d39-a974-a20d19082bd9.jpg" width="120" height="124" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2010 file photo Associate Justice Samuel Alito is seen during the group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. When Supreme Court justices enter the House of Representatives for the president's next State of the Union address, Samuel Alito says he will not be among them. He said the annual speech to Congress has become very political and awkward for the justices, who are expected to sit &quot;like the proverbial potted plant.&quot; (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Foreigners and campaign advertising</title>
<description><![CDATA[Surely, the Supreme Court would hold it unconstitutional for Congress to pass a law prohibiting foreign citizens from getting up on a soapbox in Central Park and stating that they prefer one candidate or another in an American election.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[proglib]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[proglib]]></source><link>http://proglib.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/12/5280083-foreigners-and-campaign-advertising</link><guid>http://proglib.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/12/5280083-foreigners-and-campaign-advertising</guid><category>scalia</category><category>politics</category><category>thomas</category><category>kennedy</category><category>alito</category><category>us-chamber</category><category>citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission</category><category>roberts-scotus</category><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:06:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>President Obama Once Again Makes Erroneous Claim That Foreign Entities Can Spend Unlimited Amounts in U.S. Elections</title>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama on Monday incorrectly stated that a landmark campaign-finance ruling allows foreign entities to pour money into U.S. elections.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texasguy01]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Texasguy01]]></source><link>http://terry-9.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/27/4761855-president-obama-once-again-makes-erroneous-claim-that-foreign-entities-can-spend-unlimited-amounts-in-us-elections</link><guid>http://terry-9.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/27/4761855-president-obama-once-again-makes-erroneous-claim-that-foreign-entities-can-spend-unlimited-amounts-in-us-elections</guid><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>lying</category><category>alito</category><category>busted</category><category>disclose-act</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:54:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>