Republican turncoats who voted for Elena Kagan
These are the so-called Republicans who voted to confirm one of the most dangerous, unqualified Supreme Court Justice nominees in history: Susan Collins (R-ME) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Judd Gregg (R-NH) Richard Lugar (R-IN) Olympia Snowe (R-ME) They are the usual suspects. They must go. It’s that simple.
Judge Susan Bolton’s specious argument for blocking Arizona immigration law
National Review’s Andrew McCarthy has a great post today over at The Corner demonstrating Clinton-appointed Judge Susan Bolton’s specious argument — based on a misapplication of case law — for blocking Arizona’s new immigration law. There are three key flaws in Judge (so-called) Bolton’s decision: In essence, Judge Susan Bolton bought the Justice Department’s preemption [...]
Kagan blows fundamental judicial question
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. –Thomas Jefferson The Senate Judiciary hearings for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, revealed perhaps the pivotal constitutional question of modern times: Is there a Higher Law that is the foundation of [...]
Report from Washington for June 21, 2010
On this week’s edition of the Report from Washington with Ellis Washington, Ellis and Conservative Beacon’s Josh Price discuss: Simplistic David Souter; and A report that Rahm Emanuel may leave the White House after the November midterms
Simplistic David Souter
Justice Souter actually provided a primer on how not to be a judge. He made up a Constitution that never was to justify a kind of judicial power that was never intended. –McGinnis & Rappaport, “Souter’s Bad Constitutional History” Recently retired Justice David Souter delivered the commencement address at Harvard where several statements were direct [...]
Obama nominates inexperienced, unqualified Elena Kagan to SCOTUS
First of all, doesn’t she look eerily like Janet Napolitano? I digress… The inexperienced, unqualified community organizer Barack Obama has nominated, shockingly, an inexperienced person with absolutely no judicial record to the Supreme Court: current Solicitor General Elena Kagan. (As an aside, Kagan was also unqualified for Solicitor General but that didn’t stop 7 Republican [...]
The singular Supreme Court qualification
Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. –Thomas Jefferson John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 35 years, announced his retirement earlier this week. Court watchers, political prognosticators and media mavens are speculating about whom President Obama [...]
Chief Justice Roberts calls President Obama’s, Congressional Dems’ behavior at State of the Union “very troubling”
Remember this? Justice Samuel Alito wasn’t the only Supreme Court member to take umbrage with President Obama’s dsplat of willful and utter disregard for decorum at this year’s State of the Union (SOTU). Chief Justice John Roberts is calling out President Obama’s and congressional Democrats’ unprofessional behavior at SOTU: Responding to a University of Alabama [...]
Dred Scott and corporate personhood
Editor’s note: Ellis Washington’s new radio program, “The Washington Report,” airs Thursdays at 11 a.m. Eastern on 1620 AM in Atlanta, Ga. It can be heard online at the Radio Sandy Springs website. The negro has no rights which the white man was bound to respect. –Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) I can summarize in [...]
Can You Say, “La Raza?”
By Henry Barnes Everyone is a racist except you and me ? and I wonder about you. –Book of Common Misery La Raza is the name of an Hispanic hate group heavily funded by the Ford Foundation. Our soon to be Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, was a member. Upon being nominated to the Supreme [...]
