A couple weeks ago Richard Posner, one of America’s most influential conservative judges, made big news when he said the Republican Party has become “goofy“. Now he is backing that claim up more by offering his view on some of the bigger decisions the Supreme Court has made and the right supports, namely Citizens United: […]
We always here Republicans talk about “state sovereignty” and an “overreaching federal government”, but they really don’t believe in what they say. Take this latest example from the conservative Supreme Court: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down Montana’s century-old limits on corporate political spending, putting an end to the state’s resistance to Citizens […]
In 2005 California passed a law banning the sale of violent video games to those under 18. The law has constantly been challenged in the courts, so it was never fully enacted and now it never will be: The court reached a decision in Brown v. the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) by a vote of […]
Again Justice Antonin Scalia gives reason for a judicial malpractice clause in our Constitution. In a recent interview, this is what Scalia had to say: In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don’t think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly […]
On Monday I posted about how we are seeing younger Supreme Court picks, which in turn means we will have justices remain in the high court even longer. I also said how that is damaging to our country, since the court won’t keep up with the changes of society. Today we have a picture perfect […]
This is very interesting: Justice David H. Souter’s retirement from the Supreme Court will open a window into whether President Obama is truly a coolheaded, moderate technocrat, as claimed by Democrats, or a standard-bearer for some of the left’s most extreme ideas, as claimed by Republicans. The stakes are high – the nine justices set […]
From Today’s Washington Post: The Supreme Court made it harder Tuesday for whistle-blowers to share in the proceeds from fraud lawsuits against government contractors. The court ruled 6-2 that James Stone, an 81-year-old retired engineer, may not collect a penny for his role in exposing fraud at the now-closed Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant northwest […]
This is just to interesting to pass up: A daughter of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was arrested Monday night in Wheaton and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and child endangerment, Wheaton Deputy Police Chief Thomas Meloni said. Ann S. Banaszewski, 45, was stopped about 7:25 p.m. in a 1996 Ford […]
Well this is really a shocker and I don’t know how to read into it yet Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas supported lifting the stay, but […]
President Bush’s pick for the Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, has so far pleased the extreme right. The question will now be in the approval by the centrists. This was a bold step for Bush. He would of had a better chance of getting this confirmation through if he made it from the beginning instead of […]