As it is now, Supreme Court justices are given lifetime appointments, the rational being that their job for life allows them to be free from political pressure. However, the majority of Americans oppose this practice.
Amanda Knox, the American woman convicted of murder by an Italian court in 2009, has been freed after an appeals court overturned the decision on Monday. Her co-defendant and former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, was cleared as well.
The Alabama federal court of appeals ruled on the provision in Obama's Healthcare law requiring citizens to buy healthcare to be unconstitutional. With other state appeals courts finding it completely unconstitutional and others in Cincinnati upholding the new healthcare law, it will now fall into the lap of the supreme court...
Keith Gruber of Swan Lake, NY, was an hour and a half late for his 10:30 AM pretrial felony DWI hearing in Sullivan County Court.
It would have probably been best if the 49-year-old didn't show up at all.
That's because Gruber stumbled into the proceeding while swigging on an open can of Busch beer...