Archive for Category: "Judiciary"

April 22, 2011 12:03

Mexico wants to sue U.S. gun makers – Obama’s plan with operation gunrunner?

CBS News has learned that the Mexican Government has retained an American law firm to explore filing civil charges against U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors over the flood of guns crossing the border into Mexico.

April 20, 2011 04:58

Chris Christie recounts lopsided court ordered school spending

Courts have ordered school spending which has some districts spending over $16,000 per student in 31 poor districts and under $3,000 in the rest of over 500 districts. Christie calls for changing the New Jersey Supreme Court.

April 8, 2011 05:29

Schiff: The government is now taxing us through inflation

Peter Schiff and Judge Napolitano discuss the charges against Bernard von NotHaus for creating silver coins. Are all gold and silver buyers and sellers terrorists? The judge thinks the case will be reversed on appeal.

April 8, 2011 04:44

Missing votes give Justice Prosser win in Wisconsin battle

Winning Justice David Prosser told Greta Van Susteren tonight that he survived a nuclear firestorm.

He also said the 7,000 vote lead will likely be too big to overcome.

April 6, 2011 15:26

Credits for Crucifixes. Or: What’s the Matter with Kagan?

Justice Kagan’s dissent yesterday in the Supreme Court ruling upholding Arizona’s education tax credits seems to me so obviously mistaken on both the facts and the law that I feel I must be missing something.

March 28, 2011 06:10

Republicans Should Not Play Nice on Judicial Nominations

The President has seriously nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Stephen Six, whose prints are all over the obstruction of justice in an investigation of an alleged systematic statutory rape cover-up at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas.

March 25, 2011 05:30

Are campaign finance “reforms” really free speech restrictions?

At root, the campaign finance reform impulse is more about control and the personal preferences of those writing the rules than any high-minded notion of democracy, let alone free speech.

March 9, 2011 07:06

Goodwin Liu is Unfit for a Lifetime Appointment to Federal Judiciary

The nomination of Goodwin Liu is one of those rare instances constituting “extraordinary circumstances” where the U. S. Senate should reject this nominee as unsuitable for a lifetime appointment. “Extraordinary circumstances” is the standard agreed to by the bipartisan “Gang of 14” U.S. Senators in 2005 for opposing judicial nominations.

March 4, 2011 06:39

U.S. Supreme Court: “Hateful Speech” at Military Funerals Legal

Distasteful as it may be, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday by an 8-to-1 decision that Americans have the right under the First Amendment to “even hurtful speech” by those who seek to protest at the funeral of soldiers killed in combat.

March 1, 2011 05:22

The Vanishing Constitution

The Obama administration plans to continue with implementation of ObamaCare despite recent rulings by two federal district judges that it is unconstitutional, despite lawsuits to block it by more than half of all states, and despite polls showing that 60 percent of Americans want it repealed.