{"id":1823,"date":"2011-09-21T22:08:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T02:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2011-09-21T23:05:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T03:05:51","slug":"waiting-for-scotus-able-billie-and-troy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2011\/09\/21\/waiting-for-scotus-able-billie-and-troy\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for SCOTUS: Thomas, Abram, Abel, Billie, and Troy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1830\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2011\/09\/300px-ThomasShippAbramSmith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Shipp_and_Abram_Smith\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930<\/a><br \/>\n[Wikimedia Foundation]<\/p>\n<p>The execution of Troy Davis, scheduled for 7:00 PM has not occorred. Word has it the Supreme Court of the United States is considering an appeal filed at 6:00 PM this evening.\u00a0 Clarence Thomas is rumored to have some kind of leadership role, but rumors conflict about how much. One pundit, CNN&#8217;s\u00a0 Jeffrey Toobin thinks that the deliberation is unusually long.\u00a0 Rumor said SCOTUS would speak by 8:30 PM. It came and went.\u00a0 Democracy Now! extended it&#8217;s live coverage from 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Now, at 9:55 PM, they are saying &#8216;at least 10:30 PM&#8217;. I&#8217;m sure Amy Goodman would like to stay on the air for as long as it takes, but she doesn&#8217;t have deep pocket sponsors. Then again Democracy Now! is the only TV program giving live coverage.<\/p>\n<p>So the question is has anything really changed since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abel_Meeropol\" target=\"_blank\">Abel Meeropol<\/a> wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strange_Fruit\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Strange Fruit&#8221;<\/a> ? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to Billie Holiday while we wait.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Davis-order-9-21-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SCOTUS has spoken.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930 [Wikimedia Foundation] The execution of Troy Davis, scheduled for 7:00 PM has not occorred. Word has it the Supreme Court of the United States is considering an appeal filed at 6:00 PM this evening.\u00a0 Clarence Thomas is rumored to have some kind of leadership role, but rumors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}