Very well said. ===== WSJ 2/21/2016 The president has every right to nominate a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia. He shouldn’t, but he has the right by law and precedent. The reasons he shouldn’t spring from facts particular to the moment and having to do with what Justice Scalia symbolized. In a 50/50 country, one that suffers deep ideological divisions and is constantly... Read more
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The Court Needs Balance
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Obama, US CourtsGreat Democrat Judicial Hits
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, US CourtsAh, how soon we forget. === WSJ 2/21/2015 Senate Democrats haven’t made much progress shaming Republicans into yielding on President Obama’s upcoming Supreme Court nominee, and no wonder. As much as they’re trying, they can’t erase their own abusive history of double and sometimes triple standards in confirmation politics. Earlier this week we chronicled New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s faked alibi... Read more
Standing to Sue
May 5 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, US Constitution, US CourtsIf this issue is not addressed and “we” continue to allow the executive branch to abdicate its accountability to enforce the laws of the land, I fear we will come to regret it. ====== The legal left and media are always last to know, but there are the makings of a correction in how the courts police conflicts between the political branches.... Read more
Why else have them?
February 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US Constitution, US CourtsR.I.P. ========== By JOHN R. BOLTON From the American Enterprise Institute Bob Bork was my antitrust professor at Yale Law School in 1972-73, where he was one of a small band of conservative/libertarian students and teachers. Ralph Winter and Ward Bowman were the only other two like-minded professors, although they did have some fellow travelers among the professoriat who were merely New Deal liberals. All... Read more
All In Favor of Equal Opportunity!
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, Unions, US CourtsLouisiana Judge Timothy Kelley sure is a fast writer. Only hours after the end of a two-day trial, the Balzac of the judiciary rolled out a 39-page opinion striking down the state’s pioneering voucher program as unconstitutional. Could it be that he knew how he was going to rule before the trial? The state district judge in Baton Rouge ruled that... Read more
