Tag: "SCOTUS"
So…Sotomayor, Huh?
There is a good amount of smart commentary on the President’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, so I won’t add a lot more of my own. There are a few points I want to touch on, though. If you need a one-line summation of Judge Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, it seems to [...]
Dissembling or Ephiphany? Jim DeMint Wants to Know.
There is a conservative rock star in the Republican Party and his name is Jim DeMint. His op-ed in the Washington Examiner on judicial restraint and the silly word games the President and Senator Leahy are playing deserves much wider attention than it’s gotten thus far. Obama has said plainly that he intends to choose [...]
Don’t Free Plaxico Burress
It’s a bad idea to make Plaxico Burress the newest poster child for Second Amendment rights. Dave Kopel gives it a noble try in today’s Wall Street Journal, but I think he misses something important. His main point, that the plain language of the 2nd Amendment and the recent SCOTUS Heller decision make New York [...]
SCOTUS Says You Do Have an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Wave your handguns in the air! Shoot ‘em like you just don’t care! Well, finally, after two of the most brainless decisions I have ever seen come out of the Supreme Court, they finally got one right. Today, the SCOTUS decided that the Second Amendment isn’t going to be raed in the most pedantic way [...]
Fred on The SCOTUS Takeover of the War
Fred Thompson, on the Supreme Court’s latest decision: In reading the majority opinion I am struck by the utter waste that is involved here. No, not the waste of military resources and human life, although such a result is tragically obvious. I refer to the waste of all those years these justices spent in law [...]
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