<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Full Court Press</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><description>Full Court Press</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[POW Claims Bump Into Foreign Policy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23576-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23576-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration is arguing that the reconstruction of post-Hussein Iraq would be set back if the new government has to pay damages to a group of American POWs from the Gulf War.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serving in the Chief Justice's Shadow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3163-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3163-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[William H. Rehnquist's administrative assistant, Sally M. Rider, plays a quiet but vital support role at the Supreme Court. Recently, she has been one of the few people with daily access to Rehnquist during his illness.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rehnquist's Health and Vote Contingencies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43003-2005Jan2.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43003-2005Jan2.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The chief justice has announced that he will not vote in the 12 cases the Supreme Court heard during the first two weeks of November, unless the case would end up in a 4 to 4 tie without his participation.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justices to Hear Cattle Producers' Beef on Ads]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38039-2004Dec5.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38039-2004Dec5.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Beef -- It's What's for Dinner." You could easily imagine some people objecting to that familiar ad -- a vegetarian, perhaps, or a New England fisherman. But surely no one who makes a living off the production of steaks and chops would have anything against it, right?]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justices Too Tightlipped on Their Health?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14368-2004Oct31.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14368-2004Oct31.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Among the many issues raised by the Supreme Court's recent disclosure that William H. Rehnquist has cancer is how much information the court owes the public about the chief justice's health.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investment Pays Off Handsomely for Souter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27921-2004Jul4.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27921-2004Jul4.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Long known as the most private and frugal member of the court, Souter, 64, recently became one of the richest, thanks to a decision he made a quarter-century ago to invest his savings in his native New Hampshire -- and keep them there.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justices Banking on Payoff From Publishing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20685-2004Jun6.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20685-2004Jun6.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The book business is turning into a lucrative sideline for some members of the Supreme Court -- especially Justice Clarence Thomas.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Lawyer, This Case Is Personal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17528-2004Feb29.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17528-2004Feb29.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[E. Randol Schoenberg's oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court was a professional opportunity of a lifetime as well as a family milestone.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caseload Reflects Court's Altered Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3843-2004Feb1.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3843-2004Feb1.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[No one familiar with the court suggests that the justices aren't working hard. But, the Supreme Court decides far fewer cases now than it did in the relatively recent past.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justices Take on War on Terror Legal Issues]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54560-2004Jan4.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54560-2004Jan4.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After a month-long holiday break, the justices of the Supreme Court will gather in their private conference room Friday to resume what has quietly developed into a potentially historic term.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Case of Church and State and the States]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23649-2003Nov30.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23649-2003Nov30.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A year and a half ago, in a landmark ruling on school vouchers, the Supreme Court decided that the Constitution permits indirect state funding of religious education. Now, in one of the most closely watched cases of this term, the question before the court is whether the Constitution sometimes requires it.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions From the Bench Seen as Clues to Final Outcomes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54727-2003Nov2.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54727-2003Nov2.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court is what lawyers call a "hot bench." At oral argument, the justices bombard lawyers with questions and comments, some arcane, some prolix, some barbed.]]></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_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8393-2003Aug31.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 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[Full Court Press: Global Thinking]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16862-2003Aug3.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16862-2003Aug3.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court decision-making is beginning to reflect the influence of international legal norms, as well as rulings by courts in foreign countries.]]></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_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17528-2003Jul6.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 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[A Wildcard on Affirmative Action]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A942-2003Jun1.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A942-2003Jun1.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the Supreme Court ponders two cases on race-conscious admissions, Justice John Paul Stevens has appeared to move from ambivalence toward affirmative action to broad support for it - without ever quite contradicting himself or announcing a change.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Cowgirl's Sense of the Court]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13698-2003May4.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13698-2003May4.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[To enter Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's office at the Supreme Court is to be reminded immediately of her origins on the remote Lazy B ranch in the desert Southwest.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Second Thought . . .]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5182-2003Apr10.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5182-2003Apr10.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Buried deep within the Supreme Court's list of routine Monday orders this week was an apparent historical first: The justices dismissed a case solely because the party who originally asked them to hear it got cold feet.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Telemarketer's Claims Ring True?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30032-2003Mar2.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30032-2003Mar2.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court deals with its share of hypertechnical legal matters, but there's nothing abstract about the subject of today's oral argument: telemarketing.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Further Review, It's Hard to Bury Douglas's Arlington Claim]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5692-2003Feb13.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5692-2003Feb13.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/fullcourtpress</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the matter of Justice William O. Douglas's claim to a soldier's grave at Arlington National Cemetery, the plot thickens.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item></channel></rss>