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Souter says goodbye to High Court

WASHINGTON and#8212; It took Justice David Souter's final day at the Supreme Court to bring him into the limelight after nearly two decades in Washington.


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Barack Obama didn't kill liberalism; he's just doing a nice job of burying it. The end of liberalism as a meaningful ideology came with the nomination of Bill Clinton. The argument was - although hardly phrased so accurately - that it was far better ...


Obama winner on pope, president envy scale

A lot has happened in papal politics since Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, stood barefoot and hatless at the gates of Canossa castle begging pardon from Pope Gregory VII. That was 1,075 years ago while popes were slugging it out with temporal rulers like Henry over who had the right to appoint bishops.


Souter bids goodbye to Supreme Court

It took David Souter's final day at the Supreme Court to bring him into the limelight.


Souter bids one last farewell

It took Justice David Souter's final day at the U.S. Supreme Court to bring him into the limelight after nearly two decades in Washington.


Harmonious week for the Roberts court

In two key cases, the normally fractured court comes together 8 to 1 to preserve the Voting Rights Act and oppose the strip-search of a 13-year-old at school. But the harmony is unlikely to last. When John G. Roberts Jr. took over as chief justice at the Supreme Court four years ago, he sounded the same theme that President Obama did more recently.


July 2 - July 8, 2009

Every year, Boulder Weekly likes to celebrate the Fourth of July by taking a look at an issue that’s important to all of us as Americans. In 2007, we asked the question, “What would the Founders think of George Bush’s America?” Last year, we asked people what patriotism meant to them.


Souter bids goodbye to Supreme Court colleagues

WASHINGTON -- It took Justice David Souter's final day at the Supreme Court to bring him into the limelight after nearly two decades in Washington.


Roberts works to narrow split on court

WASHINGTON -- When John G. Roberts Jr. took over as chief justice at the Supreme Court four years ago, he sounded the same theme as did President Barack Obama more recently.


Washington Sketch: Mr. Smith Leaves Washington

As the justices read out their opinions yesterday on the final day of the Supreme Court session, the robed ones went about their usual routines: Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito sipped from their coffee cups, John Roberts caught up on his reading, Antonin Scalia rubbed his eyes and Clarence Thomas rocked in his chair and massaged his forehead.