Thomas Goldstein
Thomas Goldstein
Thomas C. Goldstein, known as simply Tom Goldstein, is an American attorney known for his advocacy before and blogging about the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe, a Washington, D.C. firm specializing in Supreme Court litigation, and was, until the end of 2010, a partner at Akin Gump, where he was co-head of the litigation and Supreme Court practices. In 2003, he co-founded SCOTUSblog, the most widely read blog covering the...
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You can't ever label this court as totally conservative. It's always hard to put the court in a box of a particular label.
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The cases the court has heard in the past, particularly the ones around World War II, do point to some extent in the government's favor,
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The letters just started going out in the last day or so. Up until today, we still see no signs of misuse of the data. Had we discovered earlier that the data was being misused, we would have come out with an announcement much faster.
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If you're on U.S. soil, do you have a right to get into U.S. courts and have a lawyer?
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It was like they scheduled the fireworks and everybody came and suddenly they were canceled.
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The federal government really has tried to use the concerns of terrorism in the post-9/11 world to expand its powers and to keep the courts out and say no, the police, the FBI, the CIA need substantially greater discretion,