In a letter to Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee Republican, Robert Bauer, counsel to Obama, implied the president may use executive privilege to hide some memos Elena Kagan wrote when she served in the Clinton White House.
Archive for Category: "Judiciary"
May 31, 2010 05:32
Christian Conservatives Target Seated Leftist Judges
A group of conservative attorneys say they are on a mission from God to unseat four California judges in a rare challenge that is turning a traditionally snooze-button election into what both sides call a battle for the integrity of U.S. courts.
May 28, 2010 04:35
As Dean, Elena Kagan Moved Harvard Away From Requiring Law Students to Study Constitutional Law
She moved the nation’s premier law school away from requiring the study of constitutional law towards the study of the laws of foreign nations and international law.
May 20, 2010 05:34
The Court’s Power Grab
If justices can pick and choose which legal principles and practices they will follow, from the many widely varying principles and practices in countries around the world, then they can find a basis for doing just about anything they feel like doing.
May 18, 2010 17:56
Supreme Court sites international law in juvenile life sentence case
The Court cited the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and other international law to buttress its constitutional interpretation. “It is bad enough for the Supreme Court to engage in judicial activism. It is far worse when the justices employ international law in support of their far-reaching edicts,” said Michael Farris, chairman of HSLDA. “We have not ratified the UN child’s rights treaty–its provisions should not be finding their way into Supreme Court decisions.”
May 17, 2010 04:30
Gingrich says ‘secular, socialist machine’ being imposed on US
‘The secular- socialist machine represents as great a threat to america as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.’
May 14, 2010 07:25
The First Amendment under ‘progressive’ siege
By Wesley Pruden – The Constitution has “evolved” since then, of course, and now the liberal left, led by the Warren Court and its bastard progeny, has discovered all manner of “emanations” and “penumbra,” like an embedded Da Vinci code, that the Constitution doesn’t really mean what the words say it means. What part of “shall” can Mzz Kagan not understand?
May 14, 2010 06:17
Obama judicial doctrine: The leftier the better
As the nation’s attention focuses on Elena Kagan, conservatives must not lose sight of the rest of the judiciary. When it comes to nominees to the federal bench below the Supreme Court level, President Obama has offered up some doozies.
