Posts Tagged ‘courts’
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, 38, a [...]
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 aimed [...]
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 that [...]
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 rights” [...]
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 failed [...]
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 [...]
GOA Attorney Testifies Against Kagan Before Sen. Schumer’s Committee
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America On Thursday, Gun Owners of America had the important opportunity to testify concerning the Second Amendment views of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. William J. Olson, counsel of record on amicus briefs for GOA in both the Heller and McDonald Supreme Court cases, testified at the hearing that Kagan [...]
Senate Hearings Begin on Radical Anti-gun Pick for Supreme Court
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The hearings on Elena Kagan -- President Obama's radical pick to join the U.S. Supreme Court -- began yesterday. This is a VERY IMPORTANT battle that gun owners must fight, as evidenced by the slim victory in the McDonald v. Chicago case that was handed down by the high Court yesterday. Kagan doesn't [...]
Victory for the Second Amendment
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America Gun Owners of America rejoices in the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Otis McDonald and against the city of Chicago. In doing so, the Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment applies the right to keep and bear arms (in the Second Amendment) to all 50 states. "This is great news for [...]
ACLJ Disappointed in Supreme Court Decision that Damages Constitutional Rights of Religious Organizations
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), focusing on constitutional law, said today it is "extremely disappointed" in the Supreme Court's decision involving the constitutional rights of religious organizations. In a 5-4 decision, the high court upheld a [...]
Elena Kagan: A Dangerous Judicial Activist — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer Next week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on President Obama’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court, current Solicitor General Elena Kagan. Americans who are concerned about the rule of law and a return to constitutional standards in our jurisprudence have every reason to by assertively, aggressively [...]
You Can Fight City Hall! — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb When Smart Growth and Sustainable Development washed across the nation in the 1990s, property rights activists were overwhelmed. Visioning councils sprang up everywhere, and towns, cities, counties, and regions soon had “Vision 2020 Action Plans” that transformed normal communities into “Sustainable Communities,” and, for [...]
Liberty Counsel Will Appeal Ten Commandments Ruling
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel London, KY – Liberty Counsel will appeal last week's ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which allows a permanent injunction against three displays of the Ten Commandments at the local courthouses in both McCreary and Pulaski County, KY. This 2-1 decision found that the purpose of the displays was [...]
Florida Passes Law to Protect First Amendment Rights in Public Schools
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Tallahassee, FL – Responding to the gross violation of free speech brought about by the ACLU in the Santa Rosa County School District (District), the Florida legislature passed a law that requires school districts to obtain the consent of staff and students before entering into any agreement that infringes upon [...]
Smoking Gun In White House-Romanoff Bribery Scandal
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton The White House tried desperately — and failed miserably — to wiggle out of the Joe Sestak bribery scandal last Friday by releasing a memo claiming that impeached President Bill Clinton, at the behest of the Obama White House, merely offered a “non-paid” position in the Obama administration to [...]
Elena Kagan and the First Amendment — Dennis Behreandt
by Dennis Behreandt The Obama administration and the Democrats are openly hostile to the First Amendment. On that issue, here is the scoreboard so far: 1. In remarks to graduates of Hampton University on May 9, the President said that the free flow of information enabled by new technologies like the iPad "is putting pressure on our country and [...]
Illegal Alien Mexican Assassins — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, For you folks in California and New York who have no clue and yet are ready to declare war on the good folks in Arizona for defending their state from illegal aliens, maybe you should figure out which side you’re on before shooting your mouths off. I’m sorry; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claims there’s no [...]
Is She Or Isn’t She? Let’s Ask Her — Bryan Fischer
by Bryan Fischer Speculation continues to swirl about the sexual preference of likely Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. She is apparently out to her friends and others in her academic and social circles, but not out to the public at large. The White House has flatly stated that she is not gay, which could prove a tad embarrassing if the open [...]
Let’s Say It’s A Slur To Call Kagan A Lesbian — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer It is apparently an open secret in D.C. circles that possible Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is a lesbian. Although she herself has never come out of the closet, her partner has, and is an out-and-proud member of the D.C. social circle. Well, it's take two to tango, and so the math is pretty easy here. Which is why [...]
Red Light Camera Enforcement 2010 — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The battle over the use of Red Light Cameras continues here in the City of Houston as reported by Bradley Olsen of the Houston Chronicle. I’ve been tossing in my 2 cents worth since 2004; started my blog as a result of a botched op-ed piece printed in the Chronicle. My opinion hasn’t swayed the folks in power and each year more [...]
Judge Condemns National Day of Prayer — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, While on the Fox News site this afternoon I found an article by Mike Levine, Judge: Natl Day Of Prayer Unconstitutional . “In a 66-page opinion issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said the holiday violates the “establishment clause” of the First Amendment, which creates a separation of church and state.” Of [...]
Elena Kagan & the Worldwide “Battlefield”
Recommended Read, The New American, Jack Kenny Elena Kagan, Solicitor General of the United States and former dean of Harvard Law School, is widely believed to the frontrunner for President Obama's nomination to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. She is also known to have a rather expansive view of the power of [...]
“Courts Smortz” Says FCC — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The FCC lost its court case against Comcast as I mentioned this past week; they lack authority to enforce Net Neutrality according to the appeals court. Guess what, the FCC doesn’t care what the court had to say. “The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that it intends to move forward quickly with key [...]
Net Neutrality and the FCC — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Going through the box of sharpest pencils you won’t find my name listed; this I admit up front when entering a discussion on who should control the internet along with the nuts and bolts of what constitutes a utility, public speech and the 1st Amendment. The talk shows were abuzz with today’s news out of Washington, FCC [...]
Advancing the Homosexual Agenda, One Prom At A Time — Bryan Fischer
by Bryan Fischer U.S. District Court Judge Glen Davidson recently ruled that the Itawamba County School Board violated lesbian student Constance McMillen's First Amendment rights by canceling the junior-senior prom. While prom is normally just a social celebration for the end of the year, the prom was anything but that for Constance McMillen. [...]
2nd Amendment Coin Flipping Contest — T.F. Stern
By T. F. Stern, Anyone who thinks the Heller decision in which SCOTUS ruled against the District of Columbia and in favor of an individual’s right to bear arms, unconnected with association to militias, was in anyway finalized, is living in fantasy land; not the United States of America. The right to bear arms keeps on going and going in the [...]
Parents Pounded in Anti-Bullying Case — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly California law has an “opt out” provision that allows pupils to be exempted from “health instruction” that conflicts with their parents’ religious beliefs. A California judge has now ruled that parents may not keep their kids out of pro-homosexual school lessons. The school's attorney claims that this controversial [...]
