If you wonder why conservatives are so concerned about Democrats stacking the court with liberals, read Eugene Volokh’s blog post reporting that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared on Egyptian television and warned developing nations of the world not to use the U.S. Constitution as a model (emphasis is mine): Liberty Counsel points to these these excerpts of an interview with [...]
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I winced this morning when former Pennsylvania Governor, Democrat Ed Rendell, said that he hoped the Supreme Court majority that had decided the Citizens United case was paying close attention to the corrosive influence of super-pacs in the Republican primary.¹ Mr. Rendell apparently believes that the Citizen United Justices should have based their decision not on what the law was, but on what [...]
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The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services. The main issue before the court is, [W]hether the Affordable Care Act‘s mandate that virtually every individual obtain health insurance exceeds Congress‘s enumerated powers and, if so, to what extent (if any) the mandate can be severed from the [...]
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The left is promoting quotas again. Nathan Koppel of the Wall Street Journal says that President Obama wants diversification of the federal bench to be a top priority: National Public Radio today takes a detailed look at the president’s efforts in this regard, including elevating the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court and the first openly gay man [...]
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Bloomberg reports that the anti-Walmart left was handed a big blow today in a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a ruling that will mean new limits on nationwide class-action suits, ruled that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) can’t be sued for discrimination on behalf of potentially a million female workers. The justices, dividing 5-4, [...]
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It didn’t take a missile scientist to predict that the Supreme Court would deny Wesley Snipes’ petition for certiorari. FoxNews reports: There will be no courtroom retake for actor Wesley Snipes as the Supreme Court announced Monday that it will not give further consideration to an appeal from the Hollywood star who is serving a three-year [...]
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I just read Snipes’s petiton for cert and discovered that his lawyers’ arguments are wackier than I had first thought. Before his criminal trial Wesley Snipes claimed that venue was not proper in the Middle District of Florida, Ocala Division. The Court then allowed the venue issue to be presented to the jury. The jury found, by [...]
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