I didn't listen to Monday's speeches by senators at the confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts. I'm just not into self-abuse. But I did catch a little bit of Sen. Ted Kennedy's opening statement while listening to the late night replay of the Tony Snow Show. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and […]
Dianne Feinstein is questioning John Roberts and she is shocked, shocked I tell you, about Roberts' famous lawyer joke. Talk about playing to the stereotype of the humorless, easily offended man-hater. The really sad thing is, that she is the better of the two California senators.
In the wake of William Rehnquist's death and John Roberts' subsequent shift to filling the chief justice vacancy, senators Chuck Schumer, John Corzine and Teddy Kennedy have said that this raises the stakes for his nomination. "The chief justice is the most important judge in the country, with even more responsibility for the protection of […]
Now that John Roberts will be replacing the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the fever swamps on the left will quit their carping about how John Roberts, as Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement, has to be a moderate and the balance on the court mustn't be changed. I won't hold my breath. Why? Because Sen. Chuck […]
On "Fox News Sunday" this morning, reporter James Rosen had a short piece on the late chief justice and relayed a humorous story. When interviewing William Rehnquist four years ago, Rosen asked him why Americans sued each other so much. Rosen's father is a personal-injury lawyer -- apparently well-known enough that Rehnquist knew of him. […]
In an attempt to rewrite history, Sen. Chuck Schumer has been going around to various special interest groups attempting to downplay the deference given to the president in choosing his judicial nominees in years past. Texas Sen. John Cornyn presents us with the rest of the story.
Manuel Miranda, writing for The Wall Street Journal, notes a list of positions (compiled by the Committee for Justice) that Ralph Neas and People (not) for the American Way have taken on various court cases. Among the things he opposes: parental choice in education, voluntary prayer in public places, pornography filters on public library computers, […]
For those of you who have been closely following the Kelo case (where the Supreme Court eviscerated private property rights), I'm sure this will come as no surprise. For everyone else, this is outrageous. In 2000, it condemned 15 homes so a developer could build offices, a hotel and convention center. Susette Kelo and her […]
The National Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund today attacked Supreme Court nominee John Roberts for his comments on a memo when he worked for the White House counsel's office during the Reagan Administration. The memo, which addressed an upcoming American Bar Association scuba diving trip, contained the suggestion that if the scuba […]
Sunday's "Meet the Press" featured a conversation between law professor Douglas Kmiec and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Democrat. The subject was Catholics and the Supreme Court and whether a devout Catholic can actually be allowed to serve on the Court. If you didn't see the show, then you should definitely read the […]