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" ) , released in 2001 over the Internet , became the first Arabic rap hit and spawned a new kind of rap that is spreading quickly throughout the Middle East , communications lecturer Usama Kahf of California State University at Long Beach says in an article under review by the Journal of Popular Music Studies.A dozen rappers - - mostly Palestinians - - fill the Arab streets with rap and hip-hop beats , according to Kahf 's review of the nascent genre . They were asked whether the killing was deliberate and whether the killer constituted a continuing threat to society.Several Supreme Court decisions have said that jurors also need to consider mitigating evidence , such as the IQ of the defendant or an abusive background.In 2004 , the court decided 7 to 2 in the case of LaRoyce Smith , who had murdered a Taco Bell manager in Dallas , that there were broad problems with the Texas law , which has since been changed . Instead , Wittes explains that " the rise of Senate fights over nominees " should be seen as " an institutional reaction on the part of the legislative branch to the growth of judicial power in the years since the Supreme Court handed down Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 . " The judge found six aggravating circumstances , including violent conduct , the boy 's vulnerability and threats he made against his son . " If you look at all the briefs , they are all written to Justice Kennedy , " said Benjamin W. Bull , chief counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund , an antiabortion legal organization.Solicitor General Paul D. Clement quotes Kennedy 's Stenberg dissent 22 times in his briefs defending the federal law , which was adopted by a wide margin in Congress and signed by Bush in 2003.Bush 's conservative appointees , Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr ., have thin track records on abortion , and some court-watchers say they may not be sure to vote to support the ban.As chief justice , Roberts might have institutional concerns if the court appears to abandon a major abortion ruling that has been on the books for only six years .