Jesse J Holland

August 02, 2010 | Law.com

The Supreme Court made major revisions to the now familiar Miranda warnings this year. The rulings will change the ways police, lawyers and criminal suspects interact amid what experts call an attempt to pull back some of the rights that Americans have become used to over recent decades. The Court placed limits on the rights three times during the just-ended session. Experts viewed the large number of rulings as a statistical aberration, but some feel it is too much tinkering around the edges.

By Jesse J. Holland

6 minute read

August 09, 2005 | Law.com

Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was told by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter on Monday that lawmakers are irate about the Court's "disrespectful statements about Congress' competence" and by its interference with congressional power. Specter advised Roberts in a letter that he would question the nominee on his thoughts about the Court's limiting of Congress' authority -- what Specter called "the hallmark agenda of the judicial activism of the Rehnquist Court."

By Jesse J. Holland

5 minute read

February 04, 2005 | Law.com

Alberto Gonzales won Senate confirmation Thursday as attorney general despite Democratic accusations that he helped formulate White House policies that led to overseas prisoner abuse. Many Democrats had initially joined Republicans in praising the former state judge, but some turned against Gonzales after he sidestepped questions regarding advice that he gave administration officials on interrogation methods that could be used on suspected terrorists or witnesses.

By Jesse J. Holland

4 minute read

October 20, 2005 | National Law Journal

The senators in charge of Harriet Miers' confirmation, Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., are demanding more information from Miers before her hearings begin, with Leahy describing the Supreme Court nominee's answers so far as "incomplete to insulting." Though the two senators agreed Wednesday to begin the hearings on Nov. 7, they said Republican as well as Democratic committee members felt Miers had not said enough in her questionnaire replies.

By Jesse J. Holland

5 minute read

February 10, 2005 | Law.com

The GOP-controlled Senate fought back Democratic attempts to change legislation that would send most class action lawsuits to federal court, increasing the likelihood that the measure will pass. President Bush and other supporters say the bill is needed because lawyers try to file lawsuits in states where they can get large payouts. Opponents of the bill say it's aimed at helping businesses escape multimillion-dollar judgments for their wrongdoing, and would hurt lawyers trying to litigate those cases.

By Jesse J. Holland

4 minute read

July 15, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Jesse J. Holland and Nedra Pickler

5 minute read

April 18, 2005 | Law.com

Senate Republicans are moving to put some muscle behind their pitch to eliminate judicial filibusters after watching liberals push out TV ads in anticipation of a showdown over the federal court nominations. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will appear this month in a telecast focusing on how judicial filibusters are being used "against people of faith." Meanwhile, some conservative groups are delaying spending money on the filibuster battle, saving resources for an anticipated Supreme Court fight.

By Jesse J. Holland

4 minute read

May 04, 2001 | Law.com

President Bush plans to revive the nomination of Roger Gregory, a black federal judge first suggested by the Clinton administration. The move is likely to be seen as conciliatory to Democrats during heated arguments in the Senate over the new president's upcoming judicial selections.

By Jesse J. Holland

5 minute read

September 01, 2005 | Law.com

Supreme Court nominee John Roberts took shots at Congress while a Reagan administration lawyer, saying in documents released Wednesday that a congressman killed in connection with cult leader Jim Jones' massacre could be viewed as a "publicity hound" and that what Congress does best is "nothing." National Archives officials announced Tuesday the discovery of "a large volume" of unreviewed and unreleased Roberts documents, and at least one file of Roberts papers on affirmative action has gone missing.

By Jesse J. Holland

4 minute read

January 27, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Senate Judiciary Committee divided along partisan lines advanced Alberto Gonzales' nomination as attorney general to the full Senate yesterday despite Democratic complaints that he is too close to President Bush to be effective as the nation's top law enforcement official.

By Jesse J. Holland

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