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Archive for Category: "Judiciary"
Judge holds Obama’s Interior Department in contempt over drilling ban
The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling after the gulf oil spill held the Interior Department in contempt Wednesday, and ordered it to pay attorneys’ fees for several offshore oil companies.
ObamaCare: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow
Judge rules: “The government has every right, even every obligation, to regulate health care, because it’s a large portion of the economy.” What this means in practice is: Government may regulate health care any way it wants, so long as nobody (outside of government) has to pay for it. This is the perfect prescription for single-payer, nationalized health care on the Canadian model.
Is political speech now a second-class citizen under the First Amendment?
[A] federal judge in Maryland handed down a ruling that neatly illustrates how far the U.S. Supreme Court’s precedent has drifted from the idea that political speech is at the core of what the First Amendment was intended to protect.
“Too Christian” 10 yr old Christian home schooled girl forced to attend government-run school
The lower court effectively determined that it’s a ‘lost opportunity’ if a child’s strongly held Christian views are not sifted and challenged in a public school setting. We appealed because that’s a dangerous precedent
Political End Runs
The Constitution of the United States begins with the words “We the people.” But neither the Constitution nor “we the people” will mean anything if politicians and judges can continue to do end runs around both.
Poisoning America with leftist judges
President Obama seems to think that by nominating extreme liberal political operatives like Goodwin Liu he is somehow meeting that need. But like the poisoned apples, such nominees would pervert justice, not promote it.
Does Obama have an ACLU DNA test for judicial appointments?
Sen. Sessions calls out judicial activist judges with ‘ACLU DNA’.
Supreme court justice Breyer doesn’t care what the Constitution says
Discussing the 2nd amendment Justice Breyer shows that he does not care what the Constitution says. This type of judicial tyranny is why we need limits on the judges.
Eight Supreme Court Justices Hear Arizona Law on Hiring Immigrants
Janet Napolitano signed this Arizona bill into law and now as Obama’s open borders advocate fights it in the courts. This bill punishes businesses for hiring illegals and is separate from the more famous Arizona 1070 bill allowing local law enforcement to enforce immigration laws.