Category: Legal

U.S. Senate, Obama State Dept. Backing Wrong Horse in Ukraine

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In September, the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution threatening sanctions against Ukraine for the conviction and imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of Ukraine’s opposition party. Secretary Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Department of State backed the U.S. Senate, calling for Tymoshenko’s immediate release. But just this month, even the jailed PM’s […]

 

Clint Bolick and the Goldwater Institute Quietly Transforming the Country

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

While national political campaigns and politicians are regularly featured in the news for their accomplishments on the right, one small state-based think tank is quietly grinding away victory after victory. The Goldwater Institute was already a leading state-based think tank when libertarian lawyer Clint Bolick came on board five years ago to launch a litigation […]

 

More Evidence Of How Broken Our Legal System Is: $7.2 Million For “Popcorn Lung”

Posted on by John Hawkins

When juries are willing to demand that companies hand out millions of dollars on cases where there is absolutely, unconditionally zero proof that they did anything wrong, do we have a justice system or a lottery? A verdict has been reached in the ongoing case of Colorado man Wayne Watson, who sued the manufacturer and […]

 

Terror Trials: Delaying American Justice to Observe Ramadan

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A military judge has just put off American justice in a terror trial so that the accused can observe Ramadan. So our culture, our system of justice is now to take a back seat to Islam. This is how our civilization ends and how we capitulate to radical Islamism without our firing a shot, folks. […]

 

Holder’s DOJ Unaccountably Hikes Claims of Number of Texans Lacking Photo I.D.

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder originally said that some 600,000 Texans lacked a voter I.D. and therefore would be disenfranchised by the Texas voter I.D. law, but Department Of Justice lawyers have suddenly upped that number greatly. Holder’s DOJ now claims that 1.4 million otherwise eligible Texas voters don’t have proper I.D.s. Unfortunately, Holder did […]

 

Chief Justice John Roberts: Trojan Horse?

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Conservatives are scratching their heads trying to figure out why Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts voted with the four liberal Justices on the Court 5-4 to uphold the constitutionality of the most controversial part of Obamacare. Even swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy voted against it. The Obamacare individual mandate requires all Americans […]

 

Don’t Kid Yourself; John Roberts Didn’t Do Conservatives Any Favors On Obamacare

Posted on by John Hawkins

Going into the Supreme Court decision yesterday, a lot of conservatives seemed to be extremely confident that the court would strike down Obamacare or, at a minimum, would at least kill the individual mandate. I wasn’t so sure. I don’t know what the SCOTUS is going to do on Obamacare tomorrow. They can be hard […]

 

The Supreme Court just wrote Romney’s campaign ads

Posted on by Sunshine State Sarah

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock this morning,: the Supreme Court issued its opinion on ObamaCare today, with Justices Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and even swing-vote Kennedy voting to overturn the law as unconstitutional, but Chief Justice Roberts joined the liberal wing of the court in voting to uphold it. The Court ruled that even […]

 

No, the SB 1070 Ruling is not a Victory for Arizona

Posted on by Terrence Jackson

Forgive my pessimism, but I fail to see how exactly anyone but illegal immigrants and liberals won in the Supreme Court ruling on SB 1070, the controversial Arizona law that was intended to hold illegal aliens accountable. Much of the meat and potatoes of the law was tossed; in fact, in my humble opinion, the […]

 

Kansas Legislature Passes Anti-Sharia Law, The Big Meanies

Posted on by William Teach

There’s only one problem with the narrative going around the Left-O-Sphere that Kansas is now a bunch of Islamophobes: the actual legislation doesn’t actually mention Sharia law, which makes the USA Today headline rather improper Kansas lawmakers pass anti-Islamic law measure A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based […]

 

Comparison: Politico Lauds ‘Forceful’ Gov’t Obamacare Argument, Fox Notes it was Laughed At

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The first arguments by the government in support of the already wildly over budget Obamacare law were heard at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday and there is an interesting lesson in media bias that can be seen in the reporting of the day’s presentation. The difference between how the government’s opening arguments was reported […]

 

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down Proposition 8

Posted on by Wintery Knight

Here’s: the news: from Big Government. Excerpt: Today, the 9th Circuit upheld the absurd ruling of Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, striking down Proposition 8, the voter-approved constitutional amendment that would uphold traditional marriage in the state. The ruling itself was highly political and in no way legally […]

 

Convicted Haitian who was not deported kills three people in Florida

Posted on by Wintery Knight

Here’s the story from the: Miami Herald. Excerpt: When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti. That never happened. Instead, when Dufrene’s state prison term was up, Miami immigration […]

 

Media Forgets to Mention S. C. Immigration Law-Blocking Judge is Obama Appointee

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the Old Media’s favorite ways of attempting to hide the ideological track of a story is to somehow forget to mention to which party someone in the news hails or owes fealty to. In this case it is what they don’t report that misleads. This week we find a classic what-they-don’t-say story concerning […]

 

Austin: Successful Rally to Oppose AG Holder’s Attack on Election Reforms

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Tuesday, December 13 a rally was held near the LBJ Library at the University of Texas, Austin to highlight the attack on election reforms launched inside by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder went to Texas to denounce the Lone Star State’s voter ID laws and claimed that simple voter ID laws were somehow […]

 

Yowzah, I scored big bucks from the Ticketmaster class action lawsuit!

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

Today must be my lucky day. In my email was an Official Notice, from some lawyers I’d never heard of, announcing with great fanfare the favorable settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought on my behalf against Ticketmaster. Apparently it’s a Real Thing, because it made the news. Anyway, I’m entitled to some coupons! For a […]

 

Hypocrisy: Left Wants SCOTUS Justice Thomas Recusal, Ignores Kagan’s Clear Conflicts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This past weekend the Washington Post published a hit piece on the grand opening of a museum in Georgia dedicated to the birthplace of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The paper was desperate to make some grand conspiracy, some lawbreaking evil from the project. But whatever is going on with the museum, this story […]

 

Rancho Cordova Blast Fine Too Low to Assure Future Public Safety

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In 2008 a pipeline operated by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded destroying several homes and killing 72-year-old Wilbert Paana. Since that time authorities have been attempting to determine what sort of fines PG&E should face for its negligence. Recently administrative law judge John Wong proposed that a fine of $38 million — and an end […]

 

Death By Regulations: Has Obama Lost Senator Blanche Lincoln?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last year for the 2010 midterms Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln was in trouble with her reelection. Up until 2010 most felt her seat was a safe one but Democrat challengers pushed the sitting Senator to a runoff that she barely won. 55% of her constituents opposed her. Lincoln welcomed the support of President Obama who […]

 

We Need Rules for Cyberwarfare Before a President Steals That Power, Too

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A recent New York Times article revealed that the Pentagon briefly considered engaging in cyberwarfare at the outset of the actions in Libya, but decided against it for a variety of reasons. This reminds us all that as a nation we really need to discuss the use of cyberwarfare. The first question asked must be: […]

 

The Trap The Left Has Created For Itself With Occupy Wall Street

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Occupy Wall Street protesters did have one brilliant idea that set them apart from most, but not all other protesters (Think Cindy Sheehan): They made it a “long term” protest. After their first day of protesting, it looked like a failure. However, when people heard the protest was still going a couple of weeks […]

 

What Guns Were Made For: Homeowner in Philly Attacked By Mob

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A homeowner in Philly was attacked by a mob of racist black “youths” that broke into his home apparently looking to kill white people. This is exactly the situation that the Second Amendment was made for. The Philly Inquirer reports that “dozens of youths” marauded into a sleepy Philly neighborhood to find white teens to […]

 

Victory for Bloggers: Illinois Blog Wins Lawsuit

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a good sign for blogger free speech, a lawsuit against a high profile conservative blog in Illinois has just been tossed out. A political contributor brought the lawsuit over a story about property tax reassessments and political contributions. This is a victory for free political speech as well as a victory for the status […]

 

Obama’s Mounting Scandals

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Heritage Foundation has a post giving a run down of some of the scandals mounting in the Obama administration… you know, the most ethical administration ever? Yeah. That one. Most of them have to do with Obama’s penchant for crony capitalism. Like the good socialist he is, Obama wants to pick the winners and […]

 

EPA to Give Itself Powers to Preemptively Deny Natural Resource Development?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again an Obama regulatory agency tries to give itself wild new powers, powers that would crush American energy and natural resource development, powers meant to quash the business sector. A press release from Resourceful Earth News imparts a warning about the Environmental Protection Agency’s newest powergrab. A lfet-wing Democrat Senator is asking the EPA […]

 

R2P Or Not 2P

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Totally tweetable! New Millennium’s doctrinairish Responsibility To Protect in statecraft moderne can sweetly be – uh – shrunk – to like 3 characters. Perfect for policy cats au courant and future to drop like a mind bomb in nearly any environ! See, a new school concept of the state maintains that states have a primary […]

 

Freedom of Speech Wins: Baltimore Politician Drops Lawsuit Against Blogger

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Examiner blogger Adam Meister was doing what bloggers do, namely posting the info that “journalists” refuse to write about. In this case, back in March, Meister found that a Baltimore Councilwoman was living in a different district than she claimed she was living in. As a result, the politician tried to sue the blogger for […]