Audio: Justice Alito oddly unimpressed with EPA procedures

Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 1/18/2012

A month ago, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s decision to take a close look at the EPA and the lack of due process afforded to property owners who run afoul of arcane regulations, regarding wetlands in this specific case. Sackett v EPA pits an Idaho couple who wanted to build […]

SCOTUS Justices ‘Blast’ EPA for telling Idaho couple they can’t build on ‘protected wetlands’

For more and more Americans, law has been supplanted by “regulation”–a governing set of rules not legislated by representatives accountable to the people, but invented by an activist bureaucracy, much of which is well to the left of either political party. As the newspapers blandly reported in 2010, the bureaucrats weren’t terribly bothered […]

SCOTUS Justices Could be No-Shows for Obama’s State of the Union Address

Lee Ross FoxNews.com 1/24/2011

Just one day before President Obama’s State of the Union address, it’s still not clear whether Chief Justice John Roberts will attend or, like high court colleague Justice Samuel Alito, skip the event.

The recent uptick in collegiality from lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the run-up to Tuesday’s speech contrasts sharply […]

Sen. Durbin suggests Justices Alito & Roberts lied under oath

Breitbart.TV 6/28/2010

During opening statements at the Kagan confirmation hearings, Sen. Dick Durbin suggests that Justices Alito and Roberts were not telling the truth when they swore under oath they would not practice ‘Judicial Activism’.

Roberts: Scene at State of Union `very troubling’

Jay Reeves Associated Press 3/9/2010

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama’s State of the Union address was “very troubling” and the annual speech has “degenerated to a political pep rally.”

Obama chided the court, with the justices seated before him in their black robes, […]

Obama Picks Anti-Alito Left-Winger For Ninth Circuit Court Seat

John L. Work NewsRealBlog 2010 February 24

Conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has said many times that elections have consequences. One of the more-far-reaching powers that sitting Presidents hold is the ability to influence the Leftward or Rightward tilt of the entire Republic by the appointments of Justices to the Federal Circuit Courts and […]

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