Posts tagged 'judicial activist'

Elena Kagan Confirmed for Supreme Court

by SteveK @ Thursday, August 5th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Legal

The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan Thursday as the Supreme Court’s 112th justice and fourth woman. Reports have praised her confirmation as one of “selecting a scholar with a reputation for brilliance, a dry sense of humor and a liberal legal bent.” Calling her a brilliant scholar is a bit of stretch to say the least.
She [...]

Friday Funny – One More Thing America Doesn’t Want

by SteveK @ Friday, July 2nd, 2010. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Humor

Forget taxation without representation, we just don’t have representation. Period.

Elena Kagan: Stealth Candidate and soon-to-be Judicial Activist

by SteveK @ Wednesday, June 30th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, Judicial Tyranny, Legal

The media is fond of portraying any judicial candidate as “moderate” when nominated by a Democrat, yet always apply the “[very] conservative” label to any nominee from a Republican president. But as Brent Bozell correctly points out, “…before Sotomayor voted with the gun-controllers in the Chicago gun-rights case; before Sotomayor voted for allowing public universities [...]

Obama’s Supreme Court Nominees are Inexperienced With Life

by SteveK @ Tuesday, May 18th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, Judicial Tyranny

When considering someone for the Supreme Court, Obama said he wanted a nominee who could “relate to the real world and how the law affects ordinary Americans.” He supposedly wanted a champion of the “little guy,” yet he nominates the exact opposite.
People with lives in academia and perpetual paychecks cannot understand “the little guy”, or [...]

If Obama Nominated Elena Kagan, Then Her Views Are No Mystery

by SteveK @ Thursday, May 13th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, Judicial Tyranny

The media is putting up a smokescreen with depicting Elena Kagan as a “moderate” or of “unclear ideology.” Some have even gone so far as to suggest she may be “conservative,” which is a bizarre claim considering who nominated her. Why else would Obama choose her if not for the fact that she shares most, [...]

The Second Amendment and Judge Sotomayor

by SteveK @ Thursday, July 16th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Judicial Tyranny, Legal, Second Amendment

In Maloney v. Cuomo, Sotomayor joined a three-judge panel concluding that the Second Amendment right to bear arms does not apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. She also argued that the right to bear arms is not a “fundamental right.”
In a very brief opinion, she cites Presser v. Illinois as the basis for [...]

Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings: Behind the Mask

by SteveK @ Tuesday, July 14th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Judicial Tyranny, Legal

Now that we’ve had some time to hear her statements and responses, we can safely surmise that she is being deceptive.
She tried to make excuses for her “wise Latina ” comment and downplay it. Just ask the simple question of whether or not a white male could have made a similar comment and got away [...]

Confirmation Hearings: Ten Questions for Sonia Sotomayor

by SteveK @ Sunday, July 12th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Legal

In light of so much controversy surrounding a nominee with a record many see as radical, I found some excellent questions that judge Sotomayor should be forced to answer. I have re-posted these questions in their entirety.
Question #1: Policy-Making from the Bench
During a Duke University panel discussion in 2005, you made a statement that raises [...]

Ginsburg, Sotomayor and the Ricci Case

by admin @ Monday, July 6th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Legal

While the Supreme Court decision in favor of the discriminated firefighters in the Ricci case may seem potentially damaging to Sotomayor, it really won’t change much with her confirmation hearing. If it comes up, she will simply cite the dissenting opinion of the four justices as being on her side, and since it was a [...]

Democrats Try To Defend Sotomayor From Valid Criticisms

by SteveK @ Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Judicial Tyranny, Legal

Democrats are calling Sotomayor the “whole package”, and trying to defend her against the legitimate criticisms surrounding her. Most of the problems with Sotomayor involve her statements about courts making policy, and racially-charged speech given back in 2001, leading to the logical conclusion that her views are incompatible with the idea of equal justice.
Democrats, the [...]

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