The good news is the decision came down from the Ninth Circuit -- the most overturned appeals court in the nation. The bad news is Thursday's decision in the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District has the effect of silencing religious speech. If you're interested in reading the legal opinions, the majority opinion […]
I just caught Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano peddling his book "Constitution in Exile" on the TV. Let me just say that I'm a little unimpressed with his thesis. Napolitano complained that once the government claims power in the name of national security, it never gives it back and that each time it […]
Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that police officers may not search a home if any person residing there objects. In the incident that created the case, police had been called to the home on a domestic violence dispute. During the course of the investigation, the wife told police that her husband had cocaine in […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court. That is not the job that she wants if this speech is any indication. Ginsburg desperately wants to be Queen of the United States. You say the United States has no queen? Well, that just won't do. You can read some criticisms […]
It looks like the California Supreme Court uses the Bill Clinton-approved definition of sex -- that is, oral sex isn't. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A 22-year-old Californian man who received oral sex from a sixteen-year-old girl should not be forced to register for life as a sex offender, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday. […]
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that if law schools want to continue cashing checks from the federal government, then they have to treat military recruiters the same as they do other businesses. As I noted at the time, it never really looked like the law schools were going to win this one. I was […]
During Wednesday's hearing on the Texas redistricting plan, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a visit, as the Washington Post's Dana Milbank put it, to the "land of nod." If I were arguing the case before the court today, I'd be angry that a Justice who is supposed to decide the case can't be bothered to […]
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today on the Tom DeLay-orchestrated Texas redistricting plan that gave Republicans a majority of congressional seats in that state for the first time in decades. Democrats and their liberal allies are, predictably, crying foul because the new plan effectively ensured Republican control of the House for the […]
Apparently South Dakota's Republicans have been buying into Planned Parenthood/NARAL propaganda and are convinced that with Justice Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade is ripe to be overturned (in fairness, the bill got at least one Democrat's support too). How else do you explain the state legislature's decision to pass a […]
It looks like convicted murderer Michael Morales will live at least a year or two more thanks to judges who believe that the constitution's prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibits the causation of any pain before, during or after the execution procedure. I've already pointed out that I believe the judge was acting as […]