Stealth Justice David Souter will retire. Souter got his seat on the Supreme Court by snookering President George H. W. Bush with an assist from Warren Rudman. If you're wondering just how radical President Barack Obama's views are, just wait to see who he nominates.
What's the stereotype? Today's stereotype is: Whiney liberal feminist (but I repeat myself, repeatedly): COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says it's lonely being the only woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. The 76-year-old Ginsburg told law students at Ohio State University that she misses her former colleague, Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired […]
Once again, college administrators have demonstrated that they don't think the First Amendment applies to the campus: Two students who were threatened with suspension at the College of Alameda after one of them prayed with an ailing teacher in a faculty office can sue the community college district for allegedly violating their freedom of speech, […]
Sen. Harry Reid has a history of putting his foot in his overlarge mouth on a regular basis when it comes to judges -- it's a minor miracle he still has any teeth left. Today, Reid stepped in it again. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that John Roberts misled the Senate during his […]
We've known this for more than two decades -- and it's been an issue ever since the court started thinking it was its duty to find penumbras in the constitution -- the American Bar Association is biased against conservative judicial nominees. The findings: • Nominees appointed by Democratic presidents are more likely to receive higher […]
The Wall Street Journal is keeping score on judges, and the numbers put to the lie the Democrats' promise to treat Bush's nominees like Clinton's were treated -- only better. The promise: In a letter to us in June, Mr. Reid said Senate Democrats would "treat President Bush's judicial nominees with more respect than President […]
At Saturday's Civil Forum, Obama said one Supreme Court jurist that he would not have appointed is Clarence Thomas. No surprise there. And it would've likely been a non-story if Obama had kept his criticism to the fact that he disagrees with Thomas' judicial philosophy. But Obama wasn't quite smart enough to limit his remarks […]
When our benevolent rulers on the Supreme Court decided last week that we had evolved past the point of punishing child rapists with the death penalty, part of the justification was the fact that so few jurisdictions had passed laws making the crime death penalty worthy. This ignored the convenient fact that the Court itself […]
The Supreme Court yesterday, thanks to Justice Anthony Kennedy getting up on the right side of the bed, affirmed that the Second Amendment says what it means and means what it says. For some insightful analysis of the case, I refer you to Dave Kopel, who was one of the lawyers sitting at the counsel […]
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court Legislature took an impromptu survey of the states and decided that since a bunch of them hadn't rushed to extend the death penalty to child rapists in the past few years, that the nation's "evolving standards of decency" prohibits the death penalty for those most despicable people. [PDF of the […]