Wouldn’t you like to know where your bank bailout money went? Who knew, in this age of transparency and accountability, that you would have to go to the Supreme Court to find out? A U.S. appeals court refused to reconsider a ruling that requires the Federal Reserve Board to disclose documents identifying financial firms that [...]
Archive of posts tagged Judiciary
Kagan’s Paper Trail
What Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan lacks in the way of academic writing, she (apparently) more than compensates for with her lawyerly output during her time in the Clinton White House Counsel’s Office. Recalling that former President George W. Bush shared over 50,000 pages of material associated with now Chief Justice John Roberts’s time as [...]
Why Civilian Trials For Terrorists?
To understand why President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder chose to try five of the worst terrorists in New York City, putting the brakes on their military tribunal process in which they already plead guilty, all you need to know is where he came from. That, plus the sensationalism of having the opportunity to put [...]
State Of The Campaign Speech
An analysis of the road show in Washington, or as Obama has made it, a campaign stop along the way to the remaking of America. Some people referred to it as the State of the Union Address. Your mileage may vary, and your comments are, of course, welcome. But what frustrates the American people is [...]
Black Conservatives Condemn Grayson Remarks
Members of the Project 21 black leadership group are condemning remarks today by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) comparing today’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to the Dred Scott case. The decision in Citizens United eases certain restrictions on the free speech of businesses, associations, organized labor and certain advocacy groups [...]
Why The Left Hates Freedom Of Speech
Forget about the fact that McCain-Feingold was plainly and clearly contrary to the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. Especially the ”Congress shall make no law’ part. Here’s what the First Amendment of the Constitution is . . . Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or [...]
First Amendment Upheld By Supremes
Freedom of political speech wins today in the Supreme Court of the United States. Overturning part of the debacle called McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform. Organizations of any size may pool their resources together and say whatever they wish to say about a candidate, pro or con. Freedom of speech is no longer a slogan. It [...]
Obama All Around The Edges Of The War On Terror
The President made some progress in verbalizing the war that we’re in against Islamic extremism. In his stunning (not really) speech about the panty-bomber, he had to finally admit that we are at war outside of Iraq and Afghanistan. But, despite using the war term, he is still content on handling it as a law [...]
It's The Supreme Court, Not Oprah
Sonia Sotomayor’s life story is one thing. It’s a picture perfect American success story. That is, in the America that she grew up in. Take away the liberal heart-string tugging of her life’s story as a qualification to the Supreme Court, and what you have is a judge whose decisions have been overturned 60% of [...]
International Wiretapping Upheld
In a decision made last August 22, but not reported until now, what the left calls warrantless wiretapping, and the courts call the National Security Agency’s secret eavesdropping program, has been declared constitutional and within the powers given to the president. The decision marks the first time since the disclosure of the National Security Agency’s [...]
