On March 1st 2005, Tom Delay said, “The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior,” when talking about judges in the Terri Schiavo case. On April 1st of that year U.S. District Judge Joan H. Lefkow came home to find her husband and mother murdered. Fast forward two […]
President Obama said that it would be unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn a law passed on economic issues on Monday. Yesterday President Obama even went further into explanation of those remarks: MR. SINGLETON: Mr. President, you said yesterday that it would be unprecedented for a Supreme Court to overturn laws passed by an […]
The 4th Amendment gets a win: The Supreme Court says police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects. The court ruled in the case of Washington, D.C., nightclub owner Antoine Jones. A federal appeals court in Washington overturned his drug conspiracy conviction because police did not have a warrant […]
The following is President Bush’s response to Harriet Miers withdraw (compliments of Raw Story): Today, I have reluctantly accepted Harriet Miers decision to withdraw her nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States. I nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court because of her extraordinary legal experience, her character, and her conservative judicial philosophy. […]
Harriet Miers has withdrawn her name as Supreme Court justice nominee. In her letter, the main reason she cited was because of concern over documents relating to her advice she has given President Bush since he has been in the oval office. The following is a copy of her letter: Oct. 17, 2005 Dear Mr. […]