While many law enforcement agencies use Twitter and Facebook, and there are other public safety notification systems such as CodeRED, Nixle has become increasingly popular with law enforcement, said Lauri Stevens, a Massachusetts-based law enforcement social media strategist.
Ted Stevens, a Harvard Law School graduate and former prosecutor, helped engineer statehood for Alaska and has served as the state senator for 40 years, a powerful position that has allowed him to steer billions of federal dollars to his state.
Jack Roderick, who later became mayor of Anchorage, shared a small law office with Stevens in those days.
It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law, '' Stevens said.
He said Stevens pushes his staff to get law degrees, even if it means studying at night, and he eventually "pushes them out of the nest" to make their own careers.
The California-born Stevens joined the Peace Corps and attended law school before joining the Foreign Service, the career diplomatic corps, in 1991, according to his State Department biography.
Of the many responsibilities accorded to a President by our Constitution, few are more weighty or consequential than that of appointing a Supreme Court justice -- particularly one to succeed a giant in the law like Justice John Paul Stevens.
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Stevens, the Court struck down a federal law that criminalized the creation or sale of videos showing actual animal cruelty.
Prosecutors had presented those billing records as evidence that Stevens did not disclose, as required by law, gifts and services he'd received.
Stevens, who was involved in crafting that law, now acknowledges its flaws.
Unlike his new conservative colleagues, Stevens, like Souter, thought that the law should develop slowly, over time, with each case building logically on its predecessors.
For nearly 35 years, Justice Stevens has stood as an impartial guardian of the law, faithfully applying the core values of our founding to the cases and controversies of our time.
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Under Supreme Court precedent, a state doesn't have the power to block the enforcement of federal law inside its borders, said Joseph Thai, a constitutional law professor at the University of Oklahoma who served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Byron White.
The Constitution reflects a hostility to this idea because it tends to restrain trade, Stevens writes, and nothing Congress has done since to define patent law can be seen as encouraging government-sanctioned monopolies on processes alone.
At the time, Ben Stevens was also president of the Alaska State Senate and he had just written a state law facilitating the buyback.
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