Posts Tagged ‘courts’
I Demur
By Steve Farrell Emily Dickinson spoke to her time as well as ours when she penned this penetrating line: Assent — and you are sane — Demur — you're straightway dangerous And handled with a chain. I wonder, this day, can the State of Arizona and its good people relate to the treatment Dickinson predicted? I'm sure they can. Have they [...]
Depriving Men of Constitutional Rights
by Phyllis Schlafly Family courts routinely deprive men of their fundamental right to parent their own children by charging them with a wide variety of trivial offenses. Family courts generally uphold feminist demands to kick a man out of his own home, and take control of their children and his money, based on a woman's unsubstantiated [...]
“In God We Trust” Again Upheld by Federal Appeals Court
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – In a 3-0 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington, DC, ruled that the National Motto, “In God We Trust,” is constitutional and does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Quoting the 1970 decision in Aronow v. [...]
Arizona Immigration Law Blocked By Federal Court
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Phoenix, AZ – Federal District Judge Susan Bolton issued a 36-page decision blocking enforcement of key provisions to the controversial Arizona immigration law. Judge Bolton wrote: “Applying the proper legal standards based upon well-established precedent, the Court finds that the United States is likely [...]
ACLJ Extremely Disappointed With Federal Court Decision Blocking Key Provisions of AZ Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said today it is extremely disappointed with a federal court decision that blocks key provisions of Arizona's immigration law S.B. 1070 from taking effect. The ACLJ, along with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, [...]
Papers Prepped to Disbar Elena Kagan
Liberty Alerts, World Net Daily, Drew Zahn One of Washington D.C.'s most feared and fearless corruption watchers has told WND he intends to file an ethics complaint to have Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan disbarred from practicing before the court she aspires to join – and possibly subjected to criminal prosecution – for her role in an [...]
America’s Future: Pro-family Judges Thrown In Jail
By Bryan Fischer If you want a peek into where America’s homosexual activists want to take us here in America, look no further than Madrid, Spain, where a prosecutor tried to get Judge Fernando Ferrin Calamita thrown in prison for issuing a pro-family ruling in an adoption case. Although the prosecutor was unsuccessful in that attempt, he [...]
Judicial Watch Sues Pasadena Police Department for Records Detailing Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policy
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an open records lawsuit against the Pasadena Police Department (PPD), and PPD Police Chief Christopher Vicino, to obtain documents related to the department’s alleged [...]
Something is Rotten in the State of Massachusetts
By Maurine Proctor In a recent decision, a U.S. District Court judge in Boston ruled the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional stating that it interfered with a state's right to define marriage. What we have here is a judge trying to play legislator. DOMA was passed in 1996 by an overwhelming majority of seventy-four percent in the [...]
ACLJ & Members of Congress Urge Federal Court to Reject DOJ Suit Challenging AZ Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) and the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) have filed an amicus brief on behalf of 81 members of Congress in support of Arizona's new immigration law which is being challenged in federal court by the U.S. Department of Justice. The brief urges the [...]
Itawamba High School sells every high school in America down the river
By Bryan Fischer Because Itawamba County School District didn’t have the spine to stand up to a bullying teenager, every high school in America will now be forced to let transvestites attend their senior proms in full drag. Constance McMillen, the lesbian who wanted to bring her lesbian date to the senior prom, just shook down these [...]
Kagan Sails Through Senate Judiciary Hearings!
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America Contact Your Senators Before the Full Senate Votes! The Senate Judiciary Committee recently voted to send the nomination of Elena Kagan to the full Senate floor. The 13-6 vote was not a surprise. Democrats outnumber Republicans 12-7 on the committee, and their ranks include the anti-gun extreme [...]
Urgent Message From Ron Paul and Campaign For Liberty’s John Tate
Liberty Alerts, Ron Paul and Campaign For Liberty Dear Liberty Activist, The FEC has launched a pair of investigations on Campaign for Liberty. Both are meritless, but could seriously disrupt our growing program. Please read Campaign for Liberty [...]
Kagan Must Answer About D.O.M.A. — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly If Elena Kagan is confirmed for the Supreme Court, it will not matter that Martha Coakley failed to win her bid to fill out Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Kagan's 30-plus years as one of nine votes on the Supreme Court is far more important than Scott Brown's three years as one of 100 votes in the Senate. A litigation [...]
We Are Still A Few Votes Shy of Killing the Kagan Nomination
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The hearings on Elena Kagan to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court are over. Senate Democrats slammed them through quickly, in the same way they did ObamaCare. And, like ObamaCare, they made sure that Senate Republicans would not have the material they needed to review Kagan's record -- [...]
No to Ground Zero Mosque
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It's a critical time in New York City as we represent a number of families and friends of victims of 9-11 in opposing the building of an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero - where thousands of U.S. citizens were murdered by Islamic terrorists. An important hearing is taking place this week in [...]
‘No English’ Defense Works In N.J. Drunk Driving Case
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles New Jersey drunken drivers who don’t understand a police officer’s English commands are immune from prosecution thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling, which this week overturned three separate court decisions to side with a Spanish-speaking drug dealer. The case involves a suspected illegal [...]
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham Crucial to Defeating Kagan
By John Velleco Senator Lindsey Graham was one of nine Republicans to vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. During the course of her confirmation hearings, Sotomayor told the Senate and all Americans that she would respect the Heller decision and the individual right to keep and bear arms. The assurances made by [...]
“Racism straight up” at the DOJ — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer Former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams quit the department because Attorney General Eric Holder ordered him to ignore a valid subpoena from Congress. To refuse a subpoena is against federal law, and Adams wasn’t about to break federal law, particularly as a member of the Department of Justice, for crying out loud. He rightly [...]
Selective Enforcement — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb Federal law currently prohibits the use of marijuana. California spit in the face of the feds and enacted a law that makes “medical” marijuana available to anyone who wants it. Now, a ballot initiative in the November election will remove the “medical” requirement and allow any adult to grow and use marijuana at [...]
Obama Administration is Sabotaging Defense of Marriage Act
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Boston, MA – In his decision declaring section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, Judge Tauro characterizes Congress’s decision to define marriage for federal purposes as between one man and one woman as an "irrational" desire to "punish[]" same-sex couples based solely on [...]
Elena Kagan Should Be Rejected — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama revealed his goal for the Supreme Court when he complained on Chicago Radio Station WBEZ-FM in 2001 that the Earl Warren Court wasn't "radical" enough because "it didn't break free from the essential constraints placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution" in order to allow "redistribution of wealth." [...]
Senate-seeker wants Obama birth-certificate treatment
Liberty Alerts, WorldNetDaily.com, Chelsea Schilling A Mexican-born candidate for U.S. Senate said he is considering a lawsuit against the Missouri secretary of state for discrimination because her office forced him to produce a birth certificate but "didn't make Obama show proof of citizenship" to appear on the ballot. Hector Maldonado, [...]
Most Americans Oppose Obama’s Arizona Lawsuit
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a major blow for the Obama Administration just months before the midterm elections, an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the federal government’s lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration control law. Most Americans, not only back Arizona’s measure, they support a similar bill [...]
Massachusetts Court Rules Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Boston, MA – Yesterday Massachusetts federal judge Joseph Tauro ruled against a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defines marriage for federal purposes as a union between one man and one woman. In Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, Judge Tauro ruled that Section 3 of DOMA [...]
Strong Support for National Day of Prayer
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ There's a real bi-partisan effort in Congress to protect the National Day of Prayer under attack in the federal courts. Today we filed a critical amicus brief on behalf of nearly 70 members of Congress urging a federal appeals court to uphold the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer. As you may recall [...]
Jesse Jackson Jr. Offered $1 Million For Senate Seat
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his top fundraiser offered to buy President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat for $1 million even though Jackson denies involvement in the pay-to-play scheme at the center of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial. The son of the world-renowned “civil [...]
ACLJ Will Defend Arizona Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ It's a disturbing that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit challenging the new immigration law in Arizona. This latest attempt to stop Arizona's law by the DOJ is flawed and represents nothing more than a waste of taxpayer funds. It's troubling that the federal government, which has repeatedly [...]
Bible Ignored, Kagan Nominated — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer The biblical standard of justice is quite clear: no partiality, period. No partiality to the rich, no partiality to the poor. Justice is to be evenhanded and utterly fair. The man - rich or poor - who is in the wrong is to be punished, the man - rich or poor - who is in the right is to be vindicated. By the way, I have [...]
ACLJ Wins 9th Circuit Appeal in Massive Fraud Case Against Planned Parenthood Affiliates in California
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ (Washington, DC) – The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of the American Center for Law and Justice’s (ACLJ) client in a multi-million dollar fraud case against Planned Parenthood (PP) affiliates in California. ACLJ attorneys are representing a former employee of the PP [...]
