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Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg Reason Magazine 11/21/2013 What a difference eight years and a Senate majority makes. Back in 2005, Senate Democrats (including Barack Obama) were in the minority – and dead-set against a Republican plan to allow judicial nominations to proceed to an up-or-down vote based on a simple majority. The so-called nuclear […] November 21st, 2013 | Tags: "court packing", "Daisy Ad", "nuclear option", Andrew C. McCarthy, enumerated powers, filibusters, FoxNews.com, hypocrisy, Mark Levin, Sen. Carl Levin, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Joe Biden, Thomas Jefferson, tyranny | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Federal Judges, Founding Fathers, Glenn Beck, Politicians, Progressives, US Constitution, Video | Comments are closed
Did you consent to a government that can kill whom it wishes? How about one that plays tricks on federal judges? How long will it be before the presidential killing comes home? Judge Andrew P. Napolitano Opinion FoxNews.com 2/7/2013 After stonewalling for more than a year federal judges and ordinary citizens who sought […] February 7th, 2013 | Tags: Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, assassination, consent of the governed, drones, due process, hypocrisy, Joe Scarborough, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Judge Colleen McMahon, Kirsten Powers, President George W. Bush, Samir Khan, Sen. Rand Paul, tyranny | Category: 5th Amendment, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Justice, Federal Judges, National Security, terrorism, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Brian Freedom’s Lighthouse 12/19/2012 Word is out today that outstanding defender of the Constitution – Judge Robert H. Bork – died early this morning in Virginia at the age of 85. [Here] is a video tribute to Bork put together by the Federalist Society in 2011: PJ MEDIA – Roger Kimball: Judge Robert H. Bork, […] December 19th, 2012 | Tags: character assassination, obituary, President Ronald Reagan, Robert Bork, Sen. Arlen Specter, Sen. Joe Biden, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Watergate | Category: Federal Judges, History, Politics, Progressives, SCOTUS, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Mary Williams Walsh The New York Times 12/4/2012 Can a judge rule impartially on pension cuts when her mother, her son, her uncle and even she herself all have a stake in preserving the status quo? In Rhode Island, the site of a sweeping pension overhaul last year, a prominent New York lawyer is seeking […] December 7th, 2012 | Tags: Christmas tree, culture, David Boies, Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo, Judge Sarah Taft-Carter, Lincoln Chafee, public sector pensions, State pension funds | Category: corruption, Economy, Federal Judges, Politics, Progressives, Rhode Island, Taxes, unfunded liabilities, Unions | Comments are closed
“Forget about a century of precedent — go back to the Constitution.”
Ruling could change tradition Stephen Dinan The Washington Times 12/5/2012 A federal appeals court cast doubt Wednesday not only on President Obama’s controversial January recess appointments but on most such appointments, using oral arguments to question whether presidential powers can […] December 6th, 2012 | Tags: Beth Brinkman, Chief Judge David B. Sentelle, Judge Thomas B. Griffith, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), recess appointments, Richard Cordray, Right to Work | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Federal Judges, Michigan, Unions, US Constitution | Comments are closed
“The judge said, ‘Why don’t you just let Tombstone go in and fix their springs?’ and the Forest Service said, ‘Because we don’t have to.’ “ Jay Crandall AZFamily.com 5/30/2012 TOMBSTONE, Ariz. — It is known as the town too tough to die, but will the federal government now do what a silver […] June 14th, 2012 | Tags: H.R. 5971, Huachuca Mountains, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, Rep. Jeff Flake, Spotted Owl, The Goldwater Institute, Tombstone, U.S. Forest Service, water | Category: 10th Amendment, Arizona, Federal Government, Federal Judges | Comments are closed
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