In case you want some historical context… ============ WSJ 4/11/2016 By Betsy McCaughey And Michael B. Mukasey President Obama is hitting the road and the airwaves trying to convince the nation that the Senate has a constitutional duty to consider his nominee, Merrick Garland, for the Supreme Court. On Thursday the president said at the University of Chicago that Republicans’ refusal to consider Mr.... Read more
Archive for the ‘US Constitution’ Category
Obama’s Ahistorical Scolding About the Supreme Court.
April 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US ConstitutionDemocracy’s Legal Champion
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionWill we see another like him? Roberts certainly is not cut from the same cloth. ===== WSJ 2/16/2016 By Michael W. McConnell Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday at age 79, was the most influential Supreme Court justice of the past 30 years. Not because he had the votes. He was influential because he had a clear, consistent, persuasive idea of how to... Read more
Justice Scalia
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionI respect him greatly. ========= WSJ 2/16/2016 From a Sept. 7, 1999, Journal op-ed by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Feb. 13 at age 79, on the most significant development in the law over the past millennium: My selection of democratic self-government as development of the millennium assumes— perhaps optimistically— a continuing appreciation of the need for these structural checks. It... Read more
Animas River Accounting?
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionYou want to talk about ‘hall passes’ or what? ============= WSJ – 2/17/2016 If a private company dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into Colorado waterways, we’d be flooded with daily media updates for months. Yet the press has by now forgotten the disaster unleashed in August when EPA contractors punctured an abandoned mine. New evidence suggests the government isn’t coming clean... Read more
The New Schumer Precedent
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionReally, now… ====== WSJ 2/17/2016 Supreme Court vacancies tend to showcase political consistency—or lack thereof. So it is amusing to watch how thoroughly New York Senator Chuck Schumer has been reduced to self-parody as he tries to excuse his 2007 demand that Democrats reject, sight unseen, any of George W. Bush’s nominees “if—God forbid—there is another vacancy under this President” during the last... Read more
Obama’s Guantanamo Power Play
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US ConstitutionIn case you forgot, President Obama is a Constitutional Attorney… ========= By David B. Rivkin Jr. And Lee A. Casey Dec. 2, 2015 6:51 p.m. WSJ Two days after terrorists rampaged in Paris, the Obama administration announced that it had transferred five prisoners—including a former Osama bin Laden bodyguard—from the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates. In the past... Read more
