It shouldn't come as any surprise that the same cadre of judges who decided that they should impose their beliefs on the residents of Californian on what marriage should be would choose to create maximum chaos in that imposition. The state Supreme Court declined Wednesday to delay its decision allowing same sex couples to marry […]
Yesterday, the California Supreme Legislature Court decided that gays and lesbians -- but not bigamists, polygamists, first-cousins, brothers and sisters -- can marry. This may not last, as an initiative to overturn the decision is likely to make it on the November ballot. There's extensive, thoughtful coverage of the issue over at National Review's "Bench […]
Columnist Anna Quindlen has the following insightful analysis of Supreme Court decisions and their effects (via Ramesh Ponnuru @ The Corner) But, more important, history tells us that the decisions that made people angriest at the time are often the ones that seem most obviously just. Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark desegregation case, […]
The Supreme Court today ruled 6-3 that an Indiana law requiring voters to present a photo identification -- available free of charge -- is constitutional. The opinion was written by John Paul Stevens. I too am shocked. Indiana has a "valid interest in protecting 'the integrity and reliability of the electoral process,'" said Justice John […]
This quasi-judge needs to be removed from the bench: Shawn Sage long dreamed of joining the military, and watching "Full Metal Jacket" last year really sold him on becoming a Marine. But last fall, a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner dashed the foster teen's hopes of early enlistment for Marine sniper duty, plus a potential […]
I've been following the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District for years. (For background read here and here.) The short summary for those of you who haven't been following it is that Tyler Chase Harper was pulled out of class for wearing a T-shirt condemning homosexuality at school on the school-approved "Day of […]
Columnist/author Mark Steyn has a post up on his legal troubles with Canada's thought-crimes court, more commonly known as the Human Rights Commission. The notion that a Norwegian imam can make a statement in Norway but if a Canadian magazine quotes that statement in Canada it's a "hate crime" should be deeply shaming to all […]
The British "justice" system can't seriously have gone this awry. A convicted criminal has moved in with a married couple against their wishes after giving their address in court as his home. Shane Sims, 19, has spent the last few days living with Brenda and Robert Cole after he was sentenced to a week's curfew […]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Boumediene v. Bush -- something that it shouldn't be doing in the first place. The case presents the court with the question of whether terrorists captured on foreign battlefields and held in foreign lands have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. This […]
Sen. Barbara "Couldn't think her way out of a cardboard box" Boxer has put a hold on former California Rep. James Rogan's nomination to a federal district judgeship because he was one of the impeachment managers against then-President Bill Clinton. Apparently, lying under oath to a grand jury isn't a high crime or misdemeanor, but […]