This was the big ruling everyone was waiting on and Bush suffered a big blow on it: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Bush administration did not have the legal authority to go forward with military tribunals for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. The 5-3 ruling means officials […]
The newly constructed conservative Supreme Court has made a ruling overturning the campaign finance laws of Vermont: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Vermont’s limits on contributions and spending in political campaigns are too low and improperly hinder the ability of candidates to raise money and speak to voters. In a fractured set of opinions, […]
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 […]
I been wondering that since Bush feels he has the power to break the law and since his current Supreme Court nominee, Sam Alito, shares the same “constitutional” values as Bush will that make him even more of a threat to the high court. Well it turns out Alito will get to answer on that: […]
President Bush has announced that he will not release papers on the embattled Harriet Miers. Via Reuters: Bush says won’t release papers on Miers President George W. Bush, citing confidentiality, said on Monday he would refuse to release documents showing what U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers recommended to him as a White House lawyer. […]
FOX’s role of “Fair and Balanced” could be in jeopardy now that theRepublican National Committee has rolled out its own webcast news show. “In The Know” premiered today with numerous segments touching on a wide array of current events. The opening segment shows the swearing in of John Roberts and even does a little to […]
The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll which was released yesterday is very interesting. It comes from the Journal, which is one of the more conservative publications in the country. I have been diving into the actual findings of the poll and want to share them now (to view the actual poll, clickhere – Adobe Acrobat required). […]
On the day after President Bush’s announcement of Harriet Miers as nominee to the Supreme Court we are starting to find out very limited information. President Bush is apparently predicting a fight with this nomination considering he called a press conference today in which he used his time to mostly reaffirm his decision. Abortion rights […]
Cronyism is at it again and this time it comes in the form of a Supreme Court Justice. Today President Bush nominated long time friend and confidant Harriet Miers to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Miers has no judicial experience, so there will be no paper trail to base her upon. This will make […]
John Roberts has been confirmed by Senate and is now sworn in to take the seat of Chief Justice. Only 22 Senators voted against Roberts, making him the 17th person to serve as Chief Justice to the Supreme Court. Now there is talk that the second nominee to fill Sandra Day O’Connors seat could come […]