Well, the Supreme Court has done it again. In its latest decision, the court has demonstrated that we need at least three more Antonin Scalias on the bench. (The way the Democrats filibuster, that will likely never happen, unfortunately.) For those of you who are unfamiliar with the latest court ruling, Davey was a college […]
President Bush yesterday gave a recess appointment to Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor to the federal appeals court. Pryor is the second federal judge (the first was Charles Pickering) Bush has given a recess appointment in response to an illegal Democrat filibuster. The first Times article, which appeared yesterday on the Web site, curiously contains […]
If you'd been listening to the Democrat presidential hopefuls you'd think that the GOP is bought and paid for by special interests. Well, you'd be wrong. There's more fallout from the infamous Senate Judiciary memos. The fired GOP staffer that I mentioned earlier this week has said that we haven't seen the worst of the […]
The gutless GOP senators have fired an aide who was accused of leaking damning Democrat judiciary memos to the press. With the collusion of many in the press (read The New York Times) the Democrats have deflected outrage from their own pandering to liberal special interest groups to the fact that some GOP staffer was […]
Two must reads on the Democrats Judiciary Committee memos "scandal." First check out the Wall Street Journal. Once you're done there, take a gander at Byron York's report over at NRO.
Former GOP congressman Bill Janklow of South Dakota was sentenced today to 100 days in jail for a crash that killed a motorcyclist. Janklow was speeding (as he has an almost legendary history of doing) and ran a stop sign before killing 55-year-old Randy Scott. There are occasions when I think that mandatory sentencing guidelines […]
The Bush administration has been consistently attacked by Democrats, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other internationalists for shunning the International Criminal Court. The administration's fear was that American troops could be arrested and held on politically motivated charges. Well, it once again appears that Bush was right. British use of cluster bombs in the Iraq war […]
When the latest Times story regarding the recess appointment of Judge Charles Pickering came across the wires earlier this evening I had to shake my head in disgust. The version I was looking at is known as the "Times Express" version -- an early, shorter version of a longer story that would move in full […]
Fox News has just reported (here's a link to the AP story) that President Bush has bypassed Congress and appointed Charles Pickering to the federal bench. The recess appointment puts Pickering on the appelate bench until the next Congress takes office in January 2005. Pickering had been one of a number of judicial nominees being […]
Well, if you're a Democrat, probably not. Democrat President hopeful Wesley Clark told the Manchester, N.H., Union-Leader that anyone who holds pro-life views need not apply for appointment to the federal bench -- but that's not a litmus test. Clark was asked if would appoint or reject a prospective judicial nominee who passed all of […]