Court session to end in drama + CIA officer's identity Case

Court session to end in drama
Rehnquist departure focus of speculation.

Published Sunday, June 26, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court ends its work tomorrow with the highest of drama: an anticipated retirement, a ruling on the constitutionality of government Ten Commandments displays and decisions in other major cases.

Traditionally, there is an air of suspense as the justices meet for the final time before breaking for three months. Justices usually wait until then to resolve blockbuster cases.

Added to that is the expectation that Chief Justice William Rehnquist is presiding over the court for the last time. Rehnquist has thyroid cancer, and many court experts believe his retirement is imminent.

"There’s enormous drama and anticipation. Is he going to announce his resignation? Are we going to spend this summer in a confirmation fight?" said Erwin Chemerinsky, a Duke law professor.

Long lines have formed several hours before the court’s recent sessions so people could get a seat in the packed courtroom. Tomorrow, the crowd will include supporters and opponents of Ten Commandments monuments. Supporters usually gather outside the court praying and singing hymns. "It’s a big day. History being made, that’s a lot of what it’s about," said Maureen Mahoney, a Washington lawyer and former Rehnquist law clerk.

Also expected are nine women in judicial robes who call themselves "Roe Rangers" to bring attention to uncertainty about the court’s makeup and abortion rights.

Justices have a few cases left to resolve, including two of the most-watched of the term: the Ten Commandments appeals from Texas and Kentucky and a case that will determine the liability of Internet file-sharing services for clients’ illegal swapping of songs and movies.

Also tomorrow, justices are expected to announce whether they will hear appeals from two journalists who might face jail time for refusing to reveal sources in the leak of an undercover CIA officer’s identity.

Lawyers for Time magazine’s Matthew Cooper and The New York Times’ Judith Miller have asked the court to clarify protections reporters have in keeping sources confidential. The cases might not be heard until December.

The Supreme Court term already has covered cases involving the execution of teenage killers, state bans on Internet orders from out-of-state wineries and federal sentencing rules.

Overshadowing it all, however, has been Rehnquist’s health and questions about the future of the court, which has not had a vacancy for 11 years, a modern record. "More people are paying attention to the court than they have in years, even though the docket has not been earth-shaking," said Vikram Amar, a law professor at the University of California-Hastings and former Supreme Court clerk. "It changes the importance of this year in Supreme Court history."

In addition to Rehnquist, 80, older members of the court include Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 75, and Justice John Paul Stevens, 85.

Rehnquist was absent from the bench for five months after disclosing in October that he had cancer. He has refused to say whether he has the most serious type of thyroid cancer. He speaks with difficulty because of a trachea tube inserted to help him breathe.

"One or two justices may announce their retirement" tomorrow. "Or none may," said Suzanna Sherry, a law professor at Vanderbilt University who specializes in the Supreme Court. "In the past, there has not been this kind of anticipation."

Rehnquist could announce his decision at tomorrow’s morning session. He could wait until later in the day after justices hold their last private meeting of the term. He could wait until later in the week, after the crowds have left the court.

The final rulings of the term often come down to 5-4 votes. Sometimes, justices who dissent read objections from the bench.

"It’s a zoo," veteran Supreme Court lawyer Carter Phillips said of final ruling days.

The Ten Commandments issue has gotten the most attention, in part because it has been 25 years since the court last dealt with it.

Justices ruled then that the Ten Commandments could not be displayed in public schools. Now they will decide whether a granite monument on the grounds of the Texas Capitol and framed copies of commandments in two Kentucky courthouses are allowed.

Rulings are also awaited in a Tennessee death penalty case, an appeal that will decide police departments’ liability for not enforcing restraining orders, and a challenge to the tight control cable companies hold over high-speed Internet service.

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The dam has burst, and the flood waters are pouring down on Fort Bush.

WHAT BILL COOPER SAID TWO WEEKS BEFORE HE WAS KILLED. . .

From:
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/coop01.htm

This is tragic news. I have a few more papers left to send to my readers
and my "farewell" paper, but this needed to get sent out immediately.

In a nutshell:

Two weeks ago, on a nighttime broadcast simulcast through a number of
national radio stations, William Cooper, ex-Naval Intel, blew his Top
Secret security clearance by putting together a press conference where he
laid out the structure of this country's SHADOW GOVERNMENT, tracing its
roots to the UFO/Alien cover-ups that began in the 1940s-1950s. He was very
concise and explicit, naming names and documentation, offices and meetings
from the 50s on down to the1970s. He literally ripped the lid of the
cover-up, and told his audience that he'd probably be killed for this. he was.

This brilliant, decorated military career man left Naval Intelligence in
1975,. By his own admission, he was unable to reconcile what he'd learned
while in Naval Intel, about Alien controls and secret combinations within
over our government. He refused to serve the anti-consitutional "Military
Industrial Complex" run by NAS/CIA and the NWO, and resigned. After this he
began to leak info, often receiving threats on his life and family for so
doing. He continued undaunted, but has been increasingly harassed for his
outspoken whistle-blowing. To weeks ago he decided he could hold back what
he'd learned no longer, and blew the whistle on the whole charade, naming
people's names, dates places...everything he'd learned! Apparently this was
the last straw?

William Cooper's stunning presentation was bound to get him killed. He knew
it, and stated it before his live audience. If anyone thinks this man's
statements were exaggerated, ask yourself WHY he was killed? There is tight
security surrounding the details of the actual incident resulting in his
death. The story is being spun to make it sound like he had a scuffle with
two Sheriff deputies in which he shot one officer in the head twice. He was
then. According to the official story, shot dead. The deputy is said to be
alive, but Cooper was killed on the spot. You can bet your three dollar
bills and wooden nickels that the truth surrounding this little
"assassination" will never be revealed before it is spun beyond
recognition. There is little doubt that Bill simply went too far. This is
the same sort of thing that got Kennedy shot. If "they" kill presidents to
cover up these truths, how much chance does one lone ex-military officer have?

My own research corroborates every aspect of what Bill had to say in those
areas where his subset of information intersects my own. His expertise and
knowledge, however, was of a military/political nature (governmental,
historical and cover-ups) nature, not specifically scientific. Yet what he
had to say rings true as far as the technological aspects of UFO technology
is concerned, as well as some of the truths he mentioned concerned with the
nature and motis operandi of the "Gray" aliens, as I have come to
understand them.

For information on ordering the incredible 2-hour William Cooper press
conference on tape, call the KTTK Radio station at: (801) 759-1581.

They broadcast live from 6 to 7 am, Monday thru Friday; and on Saturday and
Sunday at 7 to 9 pm, as "k-talk" Radio am 630 ---- in the Provo Utah area.

The night of the broadcast their broadcast was interrupted by what was
likely a triangle ship Em pulse weapon. Since then several other
broadcasts have been so targeted, and disruptions have occurred as Federal
officials have begun harassing the station and interrupting broadcasts by
demanding access to studio files during peak broadcast periods. This
harassment has been going on quietly across the nation, the target being
"talk radio stations NOT with the "plan."
http://www.mt.net/~watcher/cooppressconference.html