This Week in Washington: Liberals Block Bush’s Judicial Nominees
Here’s a preview of the week ahead in Washington. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGtSIVoMj9Y[/youtube] The liberals continue to block President Bush’s conservative judicial nominees in the...
View ArticleNo Credit to Congress: House Judiciary Committee Votes on Price Controls
In 1979, Robert Schuettinger and Eamonn Butler wrote a book called “Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls,” detailing 4,000 years of disastrous attempts by government to control market prices....
View ArticleMeese Weighs in on Souter’s Retirement and What’s Next
The Heritage Foundation released the following statement yesterday by former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III concerning the announcement of Justice David Souter’s pending retirement from the...
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Punting National Security To The Judiciary
In a stunning display of political cowardice, the Obama administration has decided not to seek specific congressional authorization for a prolonged detention statute for Guantanamo Bay detainees...
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Founding Fathers Never Intended Courts to Make National Security Decisions
Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama Justice Department would appeal a U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson’s order to release 9/11 terrorist operative Mohamedou Ould...
View ArticlePresident Obama: An Advocate for a Restrained Judiciary?
Yesterday in a joint press conference with the Canadian prime minister and Mexican president, President Obama expressed his confidence that the Supreme Court will uphold his signature health care law,...
View ArticleA Victory Against Judicial Activism
A recent decision by the federal district court for the District of Columbia highlights the importance of proper statutory interpretation and fidelity to the text of laws. Judicial activism comes in a...
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Keeping Judges Out of the Foreign Policy Arena
Newscom This week, the Supreme Court issued a historic decision that will help prevent U.S. courts (and activist judges) from interfering in foreign policy issues that are—and should be—the...
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Congress Takes a Positive First Step to Address Overcriminalization
Newscom On Tuesday, Congress took a definite step in the right direction toward addressing the serious problem of overcriminalization by announcing the creation of a bipartisan House Committee on the...
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Judicial Activism: Trading the Stable Rule of Law for the Fickle Rule of Men
Walter Choroszewski Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it would bar most forms of protest on the marble plaza in front of the court, as...
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From the Horse’s Mouth: D.C. Circuit Doesn’t Need More Judges
Walter Choroszewski Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider the nomination of Cornelia “Nina” Pillard, Senator Chuck Grassley (R–IA) questioned whether...
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How Obama Is Remaking Federal Courts in One Chart
President Obama and his supporters constantly claim that Senate Republicans are being “obstructionist” and preventing the confirmation of his federal court nominees. If you look at the facts, however,...
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Chief Justice Roberts: “Fundamental Concerns” Surrounding Class Action Awards
Sipa USA/Newscom Have you ever received a class action notification? The e-mails and letters contain a lot of legalese—“You might be entitled to an award as a member of this class”—but the end result...
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Obama Debunks Claim of Republican Obstruction on Judicial Nominations
President Obama recently highlighted his success with judicial nominations, saying: We are remaking the courts…[and] when it comes to the district court, [we are] matching the pace of previous...
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Grand Theft Auto: D.C. Metro Edition
Lv Mingxiang/Xinhua/Photoshot/Newscom Washington, D.C., is often described as being out of touch with the rest of the country. However, our nation’s capital and the rest of the country are in lockstep...
View ArticleThis Week in Washington: Liberals Block Bush’s Judicial Nominees
Here’s a preview of the week ahead in Washington. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGtSIVoMj9Y[/youtube] The liberals continue to block President Bush’s conservative judicial nominees in the...
View ArticleNo Credit to Congress: House Judiciary Committee Votes on Price Controls
In 1979, Robert Schuettinger and Eamonn Butler wrote a book called “Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls,” detailing 4,000 years of disastrous attempts by government to control market prices....
View ArticleMeese Weighs in on Souter’s Retirement and What’s Next
The Heritage Foundation released the following statement yesterday by former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III concerning the announcement of Justice David Souter’s pending retirement from the...
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Punting National Security To The Judiciary
In a stunning display of political cowardice, the Obama administration has decided not to seek specific congressional authorization for a prolonged detention statute for Guantanamo Bay detainees...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Founding Fathers Never Intended Courts to Make National Security Decisions
Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama Justice Department would appeal a U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson’s order to release 9/11 terrorist operative Mohamedou Ould...
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