MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on May 31 2009 | Filed under: Court Watch, Racism
When Sonia Sotomayor made her comments about white guys, she was simply displaying what nowadays passes for mainstream dedicated-lefty thinking…which means it passes for mainstream thinking on behalf of us all.
Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases,” [...]
Joshua Pundit on May 03 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Court Watch
We are about to receive a first hand lesson in why elections matter.
Supreme Court Justice Davis Souter announced his retirement will take place at the end of the current Court term.
Souter normally votes with the Leftist, anti-originalist wing of the Court which includes Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Steven Breyer and John Paul Stevens. Ginsberg and [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Nov 20 2008 | Filed under: Court Watch, Feature Article, Gay Marriage Debate, Liberalism Watch
Do I see a “to hell with democracy” moment in California’s future?
A few months ago, the California Supreme Court overruled the will of the California voters and announced that gay marriage was a fundamental right. The voters responded by changing the California Constitution to state that, in California, marriage is between one man and one [...]
Joshua Pundit on Nov 11 2008 | Filed under: Court Watch, Feature Article
There was a minor US Supreme Court footnote today that..well, it moved me. Simply because it’s a superb example of what’s wrong with our justice system, and indeed a whole sector of our culture.
Sara Weir of Los Angeles had her whole life ahead of her at 19.Then she was raped and stabbed 29 times with [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jan 11 2008 | Filed under: Court Watch, Feature Article
I grew up in San Francisco when Herb Caen, the famed columnist, was still calling it “the City that knows how.” Right now, the only thing it seems to know how to do is self-destruct, with the ultra liberal Ninth Circuit aiding and abetting:
A federal appeals court gave San Francisco the green light Wednesday to [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Oct 16 2007 | Filed under: Clinton Watch, Court Watch, Democrat Corruption
Peter Paul, who has an ongoing lawsuit against the Clintons based upon a campaign finance scandal, has published a video that’s been making the internet rounds for a while. I finally caught up with it on Hot Air. The video makes a good case that, not only did Hillary’s campaign violate financing laws, [...]
Terry Trippany on Jul 31 2007 | Filed under: Court Watch, Feature Article, Linkfest, Moonbat Mania, U.S. News
The editors at the Huffington Post removed the final two words, “at confirmation”. Probably because they read the following at CNN. “Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were informed about the earlier seizure when they were considering Roberts’ nomination to be chief justice in 2005, but they did not think it was significant enough to bring up during his confirmation hearings, said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, who chaired the panel at the time.”
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 04 2007 | Filed under: Court Watch, Culture Watch
Funnily enough, just after having written my post about your average liberal’s shaky grasp on cause and effect, I read the following two paragraphs in the New York Times‘ latest mean-spirited attack on Clarence Thomas:
In the last 100 Supreme Court arguments, Clarence Thomas has not uttered a word. Court watchers have suggested a variety of [...]
Layla Gonzalez at The HILL Chronicles on Jan 17 2007 | Filed under: Court Watch, Feature Article
You would think that the legitimacy of the domestic spying program would not be questioned in the wake of 9/11.
Teri O'Brien on Aug 25 2006 | Filed under: Court Watch, Feature Article
When Judge Anna Diggs-Taylor issued her idiotic and poorly reasoned decision declaring the NSA terrorist surveillance program unconstitutional, some of us suggested that perhaps she was motivated by something other than a careful reading of the Constitution, noting her history as a political hack and the fact that she was appointed to the bench by [...]
