Kenneth Jost

December 06, 2004 | National Law Journal

A political scientists examines the process that brings a nominee to the Supreme Court bench in Seeking Justices.

By Kenneth Jost

5 minute read

October 06, 2003 | National Law Journal

In one volume, Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate, some two dozen contributors comprehensively rehearse the range of issues over gay marriage: historical, moral, jurisprudential, and political.

By Kenneth Jost

6 minute read

January 05, 2004 | National Law Journal

The Lavender Scare tells the tale of the public intolerance of homosexuality combined with the Cold War fears of infiltration or attack by the communist enemy, attacks which began simultaneously in the late 1940s and which employed similar language and tactics.

By Kenneth Jost

6 minute read

May 03, 2004 | National Law Journal

Two of the many books examining the Supreme Court's landmark decision to outlaw racial segregation in public schools tell the story of the decision — how it came about when it did — in strikingly different ways.

By Kenneth Jost

6 minute read

October 14, 1999 | Law.com

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared strongly inclined Wednesday to bar older state employees from using federal law to sue state governments for age discrimination. States' rights-minded justices peppered attorneys representing the Clinton administration and a group of older University of Florida employees with skeptical questions about the need to enforce the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, or ADEA, against states -- and Congress' power to do so.

By Kenneth Jost

6 minute read

March 01, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

Uch has been written about the red scare, the 1950s panic over suspected Communists working in the federal government. During the McCarthy era, however, homosexual employees were equally feared and hunted. As many as 5,000 gay men and lesbians were purged from government service, historian David Johnson estimates.

By Kenneth Jost

3 minute read

January 07, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Senate is likely very soon to take on, for the first time in 10 years, the task of judging one or more presidential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court. Everyone in political and legal circles expects the confirmation process to be a bloody brawl worthy of a Pistons-Pacers game.

By Kenneth Jost

5 minute read

October 07, 2002 | National Law Journal

By Kenneth Jost

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November 10, 1999 | Law.com

Salvador Martinez, a one-time paralegal and three-time convicted felon, wants to represent himself in appealing his 1998 conviction for stealing $6,000 while working for a California law firm. But his court-appointed Washington, D.C., lawyer made little headway persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to let him. Justices across the ideological spectrum showed scant interest in the argument that a convicted defendant has a constitutional right to represent himself on appeal -- just as a defendant can do at trial.

By Kenneth Jost

4 minute read

December 17, 2004 | Law.com

The U.S. Senate is likely very soon to take on, for the first time in 10 years, the task of judging one or more presidential nominees to the Supreme Court. Everyone in political and legal circles expects the confirmation process to be a bloody brawl. The time is right for another look at the Supreme Court confirmation process.

By Kenneth Jost

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