#165 - Jacob E. Safra - Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2009


Author or Editor: Jacob E. Safra
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc
Published: 2008
Pages: 980
Size: 26.2MB

The biggest surprise from the Supreme Court term that just ended: Barack Obama hearts the Roberts court. At the end of June, the Democratic candidate praised Justice Antonin Scalia’s 5–4 decision striking down the Washington ban on handgun possession, a ruling that recognizes the right to bear arms as an individual right. Two weeks earlier, from the other side of the ideological spectrum, Obama praised Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 5–4 decision allowing enemy combatants to challenge their detentions in federal courts, a rebuke to the Bush administration’s policies toward Guantánamo detainees.

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