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" Alternative estimates suggest that these costs may be closer to $ 62.9 billion , or 48.8 percent of consumer expenditures for alcohol . In civil rights cases , Alito has sided against three of every four people who claimed to have been victims of discrimination , based on the lawsuits in the analysis . " We as a government are willing and able to try all perpetrators of offenses in Darfur , and for this reason the ICC has absolutely no right to assume any jurisdiction , " Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi told The Associated Press in an interview . The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to declare that legal immigrants can be deported for drug offenses that are felonies in some states but only misdemeanors under federal law , as the court heard its first oral arguments of the new term yesterday.At issue are provisions of the 1996 immigration law that require any noncitizen guilty of an " aggravated felony " to be sent back to his country of origin , with no chance to ask for leniency . He would like to see the court spend time on other sentencing disparities " that affect thousands of people every day . After the war the boundary was stabilized along a line running from the Han estuary generally northeast across the 38th parallel to a point south of Kosong ( Kuum-ni ) , with a no-man 's land or demilitarized zone , 1.24 mi ( 2 km ) wide and occupying a total of 487 sq mi ( 1,261 sq km ) , on either side of the boundary . " This court has repeatedly held that , under the Sixth Amendment , any fact that exposes a defendant to a greater potential sentence must be found by the jury , not a judge , and established beyond a reasonable doubt , not merely by a preponderance of the evidence , " Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the majority.It was a majority that gives credence to the justices ' often-made complaint about attempts to peg them as either liberal or conservative.The prevailing side in Cunningham v. California consisted of Ginsburg , Clarence Thomas , Antonin Scalia , John Paul Stevens and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. " But Justice John Paul Stevens said the trial judge 's decision not to expressly instruct jurors to consider the mitigating evidence resulted in a confusion that " pervaded every aspect of respondent 's sentencing hearing . Each of us is guided by our own convictions , and to these we must stay faithful . They also provided coding instructions , which The Post used to translate " liberal " and " conservative " labels in the national data into answers to the newspaper 's questions.The Post selected cases comparable to the Alito analysis by discarding those with no dissents . Otherwise , great article to see on the front page I hope to get my mom interested in these . It 's just going to be boilerplate in every license agreement , and that 's the end of it . " Indeed , the Texas cases heard yesterday had all been decided more than 15 years ago , when Texas juries were asked to answer only yes or no to two questions when deciding whether to impose death . " When the court takes up the federal abortion law , it will be considering a statute that was passed by a large majority in Congress and signed by Bush in 2003 - - and then struck down by every lower federal court that has considered it.The lower courts ruled that the law is incompatible with a 5 to 4 ruling by the Supreme Court in 2000 that held that a similar state law , from Nebraska , was unconstitutional.In that case , known as Stenberg v. Carhart , the court said the statute could be read to prohibit other procedures and lacked an exception to protect a mother 's health , creating an " undue burden " on the right to abortion first recognized in Roe.The Republican-controlled Congress included an exception to save a mother 's life . For all intents and purposes , the Supreme Court is telling us we have to do it anyway . " Not all of the Herndon Minutemen are happy with the scrutiny . ) Justices have long given speeches to law classes and legal conferences and at overseas symposiums , sometimes noticed and sometimes not.But those who follow the court closely say they have no doubt there has been a change . His closest associates - - including master salesman Kenneth D. Rice , youthful protege David W. Delainey , and finance chief Andrew S. Fastow - - all turned on him , pleading guilty and providing damning testimony that helped convince a jury to convict Skilling in May . " These days , he occasionally turns at the sound of a blaring horn to see a stranger raising a middle finger at him.He walks into a Herndon diner called Amphora , his secret gathering spot today , a one-block stroll to where a crowd of Latino day laborers has already gathered to wait for potential employers . All lower federal courts to consider the matter have agreed , so the law has not yet been enforced.But Solicitor General Paul D. Clement , defending the law , told the court yesterday that Congress properly found that " partial birth abortions were never medically necessary , and that safe alternatives were always available such that no woman would be prevented from terminating her pregnancy .