Louisiana 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
Archive for the ‘US Courts’ Category
All In Favor of Equal Opportunity!
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, Unions, US CourtsEPA Smack-Down Number Six
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US Constitution, US CourtsIs anyone seeing a pattern? ======= The Environmental Protection Agency has been waging a regulatory war on Texas—and losing in the federal courts. On Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down another misguided EPA rule. Enacted in August 2011, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule was supposed to reduce air pollution emitted in one state and carried downwind to... Read more
Consumer Bureau Brushback
June 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, US Constitution, US CourtsAre you serious? OK then,… 9-0 ======== Washington’s regulators have great power, and in the case of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by Dodd-Frank as an independent agency, they also have no serious Congressional check. So three cheers for a recent Supreme Court decision reining in regulatory discretion that has zero foundation in law. And by the way, the... Read more
Killing Awlaki: Legal
October 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, US CourtsThe people who decry this killing are the same group who will not support Ohio mothers, jailed because they choose to send there children to a school [because their [[public]] school is so bad. ========== In the decade before his death, Anwar al-Awlaki served as an imam at two American mosques attended by 9/11 hijackers. He corresponded regularly with Nidal Hasan before... Read more
Release the Prisoners! – US Supreme Court
May 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, US Courts
“Most of them will not be prisoners with medical conditions or severe mental illness, and many will
undoubtedly be fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping iron in the prison gym.”
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA, in a dissent on inmates who might be released under a Supreme Court ruling that ordered California to reduce its prison population.
Ah, what does Scalia know…
