<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Supreme Court 2002-03</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><description>Supreme Court 2002-03</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Finality Seems to Elude High Court's Grasp]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26432-2004Jul3.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26432-2004Jul3.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The day before the Supreme Court ended its term, Justice John Paul Stevens, the court's 85-year-old liberal lion, mounted his seat at the mahogany bench and took aim at his conservative colleagues for "avoidance of our duty."]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justices Face Issues of Religion and Politics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44463-2003Oct4.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44463-2003Oct4.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The most explosive issue pending at the Supreme Court, which begins its new term Monday, is the ban imposed on the Pledge of Allegiance in West Coast public school classrooms by a San-Francisco-based federal appeals court.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Court to Hear Appeal Involving Art]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24984-2003Sep30.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24984-2003Sep30.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will  decide whether the federal courts should be open to suits against foreign governments for abuses suffered before the second half of the 20th century.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justices Split on Campaign Finance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41880-2003Sep8.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41880-2003Sep8.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Free speech, corruption concerns surface in Court's unfinished debate on campaign finance law.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Court Yields to High Holy Days]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8393-2003Aug31.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8393-2003Aug31.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It will not be business as usual for the Supreme Court when the first Monday in October arrives this year on Oct. 6.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rehnquist Key for Campaign Finance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5463-2003Aug30.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5463-2003Aug30.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When the Supreme Court convenes Sept. 8 to hear argument on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is likely to cast the pivotal vote that will determine whether the legislation is constitutional.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics: Mexico's Fox Broke Vows]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5379-2003Aug30.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5379-2003Aug30.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Fox took office pledging to make the nation an international leader in human rights, but critics say he has failed to keep that promise.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Cases Get a Fresh Hearing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41812-2003Aug10.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41812-2003Aug10.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For the first time, Internet users can download, edit and swap audio recordings of oral arguments in many of the landmark legal cases in U.S. Supreme Court's history.]]></description><author> Phuong Le</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice Criticizes Sentencing Guidelines]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39171-2003Aug9.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39171-2003Aug9.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said Saturday that prison terms are too long and that he favors scrapping the practice of setting mandatory minimum sentences for some federal crimes.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Independence, by the Numbers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48694-2003Jul25.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48694-2003Jul25.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A new mathematical study tries to guage whether the nine Supreme Court justices are simply "politicians in robes," destined by ideology to vote a certain way, or are they independent actors, whose opinions reflect their times, their experience and, most of all, the law itself?]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'Connor Says She Will Stay]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17526-2003Jul6.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17526-2003Jul6.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on Sunday offered her clearest public indication yet that she plans to remain at her post.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polls: Americans Say Court Is 'About Right']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17528-2003Jul6.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17528-2003Jul6.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It was more than a century ago that a fictional Irish American rendered what is, for some, still the definitive verdict on the Supreme Court's actual degree of insulation from politics.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affirmative Action Opponents Planning Ballot Battle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6799-2003Jul3.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6799-2003Jul3.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Opponents of affirmative action, angered by a recent Supreme Court decision, are planning to launch a flurry of ballot initiatives for 2004 in presidential battleground states.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minority Rights Supreme]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45951-2003Jun28.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45951-2003Jun28.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's 2002-2003 term will be remembered as one in which the normally conservative court played against type, backing gay rights and enshrining racial and ethnic diversity.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activists' Appeal Nixed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42886-2003Jun27.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42886-2003Jun27.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Friday turned back an appeal from antiabortion protesters facing a multimillion-dollar judgment for targeting clinic doctors with "wanted" posters.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Debate on Marriage, And More, Now Looms]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37546-2003Jun26.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37546-2003Jun26.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruling to strike down the nation's anti-sodomy laws combined two of the most contentious issues on the political landscape by grounding the liberty of gays in the same legal turf that sustains the right to abortion.]]></description><author> David Von Drehle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justices Decline to Hear Nike Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38023-2003Jun26.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38023-2003Jun26.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would decline to decide whether athletic apparel giant Nike Inc. can be sued for the allegedly inaccurate statements it made to counter charges that its shoes are made by mistreated, underpaid workers overseas, providing an unexpected anticlimax to one of the most closely watched free-speech cases of the term.]]></description><author> Kenneth Bredemeier and Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Court Orders Review of Redistricting Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37555-2003Jun26.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37555-2003Jun26.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Thursday ruled that states can redraw legislative and congressional maps in ways that shrink the black voting majorities in some districts to create more Democratic-leaning districts elsewhere.]]></description><author> Thomas B. Edsall</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death Penalty Of Md. Man Overturned]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37624-2003Jun26.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37624-2003Jun26.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt/20022003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Thursday threw out the death sentence of a Maryland man because of the poor performance of the lawyers who were appointed to fight on his behalf, in a ruling that bolstered capital defendants' constitutional right to effective counsel.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item></channel></rss>