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" The California sentencing law that the court strikes down today is indistinguishable in any constitutionally significant respect " from the remedy the court offered in 2005 , Alito wrote.From the beginning , Kennedy and Breyer have opposed the court 's resistance to systems that allow judicial discretion.The debate may seem procedural rather than substantive , but the case that arrived at the court shows the impact.Police officer John Cunningham was convicted in 2003 of molesting his young son , who had come to live with him and his girlfriend . President Bush implored lawmakers and the nation last night to give him one more chance to win the war in Iraq and avoid the " nightmare scenario " of defeat while presenting a domestic agenda intended to find common cause with the new Democratic Congress on issues such as energy and immigration.Politically wounded but rhetorically unbowed , Bush gave no ground on his decision to dispatch 21,500 more troops to Iraq despite a bipartisan cascade of criticism . They are asking the court not only to rule in their favor , but to limit - - or , possibly , overrule - - recent constitutional decisions that have drawn heavy fire from the right . " Taplin orders a coffee and cranes his neck toward the entrance , where , in the next few minutes , half of his little brigade trickles in : Bill Campenni , the retired Air National Guard fighter pilot ; his wife , Kathleen , the Canadian emigre who is now a U.S. citizen ; Diane Bonieskie , the retired schoolteacher ; Jeff Talley , who says he 's losing his aircraft repair job because it 's being outsourced to Mexico ; and Joe , who wo n't provide his last name or say what he does because " who knows who might get the information . " 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 . " Ultimately , the doctors concluded that the withdrawal symptoms were so severe that they began giving Rehnquist the drug again and slowly lowered the dosage until he quit taking it entirely Feb. 7 , 1982.By 1986 , the files show , all the doctors interviewed by the FBI said the former drug dependence should not affect Rehnquist 's future work on the court , and it did not become an issue in his confirmation as chief justice.Alexander Charns , a lawyer in Durham , N.C ., who was among the scholars and journalists who received the documents this week , said that in his view , they contain evidence of " the ongoing use of the FBI for political purposes , not only in the sixties and seventies but well into the 1980s . " Any solution to the problems of accuracy , reliability , and recountability that have plagued electronic voting in Florida must also ensure that the right of disabled voters as well as language minorities not be negatively impacted , " Simon said in a prepared statement . " I just think this is the right thing to do , " jail board Chairman Patrick Hurd said before the Wednesday night vote . Whether it is encouraging people to eat right or to exercise , they said , the hardest part is not getting them to start doing the right things but getting them to keep doing the right things . From the 6th to the 8th cent . " Genentech 's lawyer , Maureen E. Mahoney , reinforced that point in her argument , saying MedImmune is essentially seeking the right to back out of a deal that both sides made in good faith , and that " it has been settled [ law ] forever that .