Tag: "Supreme Court"
Here Comes the Doom: Obamacare to SCOTUS
Mollie Hemingway brings the news that the Supreme Court will take up the matter of Obamacare’s Constitutionality next year.
SCOTUS: You Actually Do Have Second Amendment Rights
This is a big deal. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended gun rights to every state and city in the nation in a ruling involving Chicago’s 28-year-old handgun ban. By a 5-4 vote and splitting along conservative and liberal lines, the nation’s highest court extended its landmark 2008 ruling that individual Americans have a [...]
Places, People! Places! The Kabuki Theater is About to Begin!
So Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has announced that he’s going to retire now, while the Democratic party still has a virtual stranglehold on the Senate (as opposed to waiting and pushing the nomination battle past the November elections, where the Democrats are likely to get crushed). This, of course, will spawn a mind-numbing [...]
SCOTUS Rejects Sotomayor’s “Because I Said So” Decision
SCOTUS decided one of the big cases of the year today, Ricci v DiStefano, and there weren’t any major surprises. You can find a couple pretty good analyzes from Ed Morrissey and a roundup at Instapundit. The meat of the SCOTUS decision is that the city of New Haven was wrong to deny the promotions [...]
Reid: Soon, We’ll Have Some Honest Moderates on the Bench
This article makes a whole lot more sense if you realize that Harry Reid’s brain is calibrated one step to the left of the real world. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that John Roberts misled the Senate during his confirmation hearings by pretending to be a moderate — and that the United States [...]
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