BAM: The Austin appeals court erred in deciding that the state’s money-laundering statute – used to prosecute associates of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay – did not apply to transfers made via checks, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled today. The court’s 9-0 decision also upheld the state’s election laws prohibiting corporations […]
An appeals court has tossed out the $550,000 fine the FCC imposed against CBS for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl. I can hear the Christian right screaming now.
One of the issues about the fired U.S. attorneys is that members of Congress pushed one fired attorney about a case involving Democrats. Everyone agrees that this kind of congressional pressure is out of line and possible unethical. So why does the former chair of the House Judiciary Committee feel he doesn’t have to follow […]
Earlier toay the Texas GOP asked Justice Scalia to block the appeals court ruling that Delay had to stay on the ballot. CNN just reported that Scalia has refused to block the ruling. Will he now be branded as one of those “activist judges” by the GOP?
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 […]