Courts Roll Back Limits on Spending in Election Law
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 8, 2010
WASHINGTON — Even before a landmark Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance law expected within days, a series of other court decisions is reshaping the political battlefield by freeing corporations, unions and other interest groups from many of the restrictions on […]
A WEASEL WORD FROM THE C0-KING OF THE WEASELS
BOEHNER IS OUT SICK BECAUSE OF TEAR DUCT ISSUES.
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McConnell hints at racial bias; Bar association rates her ‘well-qualified’
NBC News
updated 2 hours, 14 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Senate’s top Republican suggested Tuesday that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor lets racial bias cloud her rulings, even as a national […]
Of course, we remember Oklahoma senator Inhofe
for other profound statements…
“I’m really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we’ve never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.”–Senator Jim Inhofe, (R-OK)–By The Associated Press, 9/17/2008 8:14 PM
Nor, it appears, has it ever had a genius or
and intellectual relationship […]
Constitutional scholar John McCain’s comments on the court’s
re-establishment of Habeas Corpus–
the bed rock upon which criminal law due process is founded.
As of yet, he has not listed the other worst Supreme Court decisions…
or his favorites.
Could it be that
Brown v. the Board of Education, Topeka
Gideon v. Lightfoot
&
Miranda v. Arizona
also make his **** list?
Quote: Associated Press
May 7, 2008 8:22
UPDATE: Nuns strike back.
Posted by Karen Tumulty
Surely, our majority-Catholic Supreme Court should have known better than to get on the wrong side of the Sisters. As we wrote earlier, the first victims of the new ruling on Voter ID were elderly nuns in Indiana. This just in, in my emailbox: The nuns […]
Is he referring to that concept for which
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.“
&
“We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-
older than our political parties, older than our school system.”
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As is the case with everything in […]
Justice Thomas Lashes Out in Memoir
Book Attacks Liberals and the Media, Breaks Near-Silence on Anita Hill
By Robert Barnes, Michael A. Fletcher and Kevin Merida
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, September 29, 2007; Page A01
Justice Clarence Thomas settles scores in an angry and vivid forthcoming memoir, scathingly condemning the media, the Democratic senators who opposed his nomination to […]
Fewer See Balance in High Court Decisions
Growing Numbers In Poll Say Bench Is ‘Too Conservative’
By Robert Barnes and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 29, 2007; Page A01
About half of the public thinks the Supreme Court is generally balanced in its decisions, but a growing number of Americans say the court has become “too conservative” […]
By the times of touble at Little Rock’s Central High School,
he was nine-years of age.
Could it have been the future
Supreme Court Justice?
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New York Times
June 29, 2007
Editorial
Resegregation Now
The Supreme Court ruled 53 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated education is inherently unequal, and it ordered the nation’s schools to integrate. Yesterday, the […]
John Bolton was knee-deep in this chicanery.
Is there a better way to insure a Supreme Court Justice–then Chief Freakin’ Justice–will do the president’s and party’s bidding? Black Robe Mail rules!
January 5, 2007
F.B.I. Lent Help on 2 Occasions to Nomination of Rehnquist
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (AP) — The F.B.I.’s file on former Chief Justice […]