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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. devoted his annual year-end report on the state of the nation 's courts to just one issue , albeit one he said has " now reached the level of a constitutional crisis and threatens to undermine the strength and independence of the federal judiciary . We are now in the 41st month of uninterrupted job growth , a recovery that has created 7.2 million new jobs , so far . It could be perceived as discriminatory , advocates for immigrant rights say , for the legislature to change its tune at a time when cockfighting among immigrants is attracting attention.Cockfighting is a brutal pastime in which gamecocks fight in a dirt ring with razor-sharp steel spurs attached to their legs . To shed light on Alito 's views , The Washington Post reviewed these non-unanimous cases , divided them into categories and compared them with a sample of other federal appellate judges around the country . " As for the Ig Nobel , this laureate said he could n't be prouder : " How often does one get a chance to receive a competitive international award for one 's work ? " 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 . Nearly twice as smart as the typical California voter.These cyber-smarties also defied scholarly predictions by knowing more about politics than they did about sports or entertainment , according to the knowledge test sponsored by The Washington Post , Stanford 's political communications lab and washingtonpost.com and a companion study by the research firm Polimetrix . Our country is pursuing a new strategy in Iraq , and I ask you to give it a chance to work . Or that the federal government , usually the most persuasive in convincing the court that an issue is ripe for review , is losing less often at the lower levels and not appealing as many cases.Some blame the so-called " cert pool , " the practice by which eight justices - - Stevens is the exception - - combine their clerks to review the thousands of petitions . Successive five-year economic development plans , first launched in 1962 , brought dramatic changes .