Today's New York Times editorial proclaims the government has "The Right to Ban Arms." The editorial is in response to a D.C. Circuit Appeals Court ruling that the District's blanket ban on handguns is a violation of the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. The editorial is the predictable guns are evil liberal tripe, but […]
Great Britain has become a case study in recent years in how not to deal with crime. The nation has so restricted gun ownership that it is illegal for people to defend their own homes with one. If a robber breaks into your home and you're there and you shoot him you can expect to […]
Nope, not our troops in Iraq, but President Bush. For more than a year, ever since the New York Times revealed the National Security Agency's terrorist wiretapping program involving international communications, conservatives have backed the president's actions based upon his constitutional authority as commander-in-chief and the legal authority of In Re Sealed Case (2002). Today, […]
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that federal Judge Manuel L. Real (about whom I wrote about here) that a judicial discipline council has recommended that he reprimanded. That's the least the council could do. More needs to be done, he needs to be impeached.
Courtesy of "Best of the Web Today," comes this gem from the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Audrey "average intelligence" Collins. "A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday," the Associated Press reports: The case […]
George Will had a good article earlier this week on the Supreme Court's steady work reversing 9th Circuit judge Stephen Reinhardt, (suprise!) a Jimmy Carter appointee.
Even the usually wrong Supreme Court judges are very intelligent -- all the better to cloak their legislation in judicial robes -- but retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor doesn't appear to be the sharpest tool in the shed. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cookies mailed to the U.S. Supreme Court last year contained enough rat poison to […]
When I saw this come over the wires yesterday, I just had to let out an audible sigh. Why? Because, through ignorance or bias, the Associated Press is carrying water for the Democrats. (AP) -- The Bush administration, trying to push through judicial nominations before Republicans lose control of the Senate, resubmitted six nominees, including […]
Unfortunately, too many of Justice Antonin Scalia's colleagues on the high court don't want their own jobs, they want the legislators' and the president's job -- without the accountability. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Deeply controversial issues like abortion and suicide rights have nothing to do with the Constitution, and unelected judges too often choose to find […]
A judge today sentenced lawyer Lynne Stewart to 28 months in jail for helping a convicted terrorist continue to run his terrorism group from behind bars. She could've been sentenced to 30 years. Once again, it seems like judges aren't too well-equipped to prosecute the war on terrorism. "If you send her to prison, she's […]