The Senate today confirmed John Roberts to be chief justice of the Supreme Court by a vote of 78-22. I must confess that he got more Democrat support than I predicted. I suspect this is because Roberts ended up replacing the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and not the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor. The talk […]
Neil Cavuto is interviewing Congressman Barney Frank on the DeLay indictment and the corrupt Republicans. The criticism is coming from a guy whose gay lover was operating an "escort service" out of the congressman's apartment. Couldn't they have gotten a stand-up Democrat who doesn't have some taint of scandal of some sort to appear on […]
GOP majority leader Tom DeLay has been indicted for violating a Texas campaign finance law. I don't know if DeLay is guilty, but I'm more than a little bit skeptical because this prosecutor has a history of using the law for partisan gain. Among the politicians he has tangled with is Republican Sen. Kay Bailey […]
The New York Times yesterday published an article assailing John Roberts over a memo that he wrote criticizing the Supreme Court's decision in New York Times v. Sullivan. There was just one problem with the article -- Roberts didn't write the memo that was the basis of the article, Bruce Fein did. An article yesterday […]
I've gotten some flak for referring to last weekend's protests in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere around the country as being populated by the loony left. Of course, the critics aren't members of the loony left and don't go to the protests. I've said it before: there are honest liberals who disagree with the war in […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the type of judge that Democrats like. She's a former counsel for the ACLU and further left wing than the president who nominated her to the high court. So, it comes as little surprise that Ginsburg confessedly isn't interested in judging cases, but would rather make the law. […]
Sen. Arlen Specter (Faux R-Penn.) has suggested that President Bush delay replacing Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court until Democrats have a chance to grandstand closer to the 2006 midterm elections. Specter said the delay would give Congress and the rest of America more time to know John Roberts as chief justice. ``When we […]
When President Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to replace Justice Byron White, she was confirmed 96-3. There were no concerns voiced by either Democrats or Republicans that Clinton was replacing a conservative with a liberal. There were no cries that the court should maintain its "balance." There weren't even any serious opposition to Ginsburg […]
To get you started off today, check out this piece over at Powerline on Bubba's gall.