Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Oskar Chomicki
The American political class is perennially obsessed with which party will come to power and what agenda it will implement, but, in some respects, this is a shortsighted view. Ultimately, victories for partisan legislation may pale in significance to constitutional changes. (Here, I use “constitutional” in the sense of the broader political system, the balance [...]
Filed under: Congress, Conservatism, Courts, Election, History, Politics, Uncategorized
Posted on August 6th, 2009 by Patrick J. Buchanan
Reports of the death of the Republican Party appear to have been premature.
Not since Sen. Bob Griffin derailed LBJ’s scheme to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren with crony Abe Fortas, before Nixon got to the Oval Office, has the GOP defied this city and [...]
Filed under: Courts, Politics
Posted on July 20th, 2009 by Patrick J. Buchanan
When Republicans were warned not to give Sonia Sotomayor the drubbing Democrats gave Robert Bork and Sam Alito — lest they be perceived as sexist and racist by women and Hispanics — the threat was credible, for it underscored a new reality in American politics.
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Filed under: Courts
Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Dennis Dale
McClatchy is reporting that liberal advocacy groups are going after the lead plaintiff in the Ricci case, who is expected to be called to testify at this week’s confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee Sonya Sotomayor:
On Friday, citing in an e-mail “Frank Ricci’s troubled and litigious work history,” the liberal advocacy group People for the [...]
Filed under: Courts, Law, Politics
Posted on June 29th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
The Supreme Court today ruled in favor of a firefighter suing the city of New Haven for denying him a promotion on account of his race (he’s white). In doing so, SCOTUS overturned an appeals court ruling from Sonia Sotomayor. Earlier in this session, the Supreme Court delivered two other rulings that might seem encouraging [...]
Filed under: Courts, liberties
Posted on June 11th, 2009 by Patrick J. Buchanan
Having lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that still leans conservative but is less Republican that it has been in decades.
The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court presents just such an opportunity. For, even if the party [...]
Filed under: Courts, Politics
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Patrick J. Deneen
In this past Sunday’s New York Times a story appeared noting that the confirmation of Judge Sotomayor would result in the sixth sitting Catholic on the High Court. The article was most noteworthy for what it didn’t really say - namely, that few people are really much interested in this aspect of Sotomayor’s “identity” because [...]
Filed under: Courts, Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Patrick J. Buchanan
If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court.
Because that is what Sonia is all about. As The New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her [...]
Filed under: Courts
Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Sean Scallon
One of the dangers of nationalized health care (outside of the cost concerns) the potential explosion for litigation once health care becomes a right. Such litigation helped to increase health care costs from the 1980s onward and could make things more expensive in future, only this time its the taxpayers that will bear the brunt.
Not [...]
Filed under: Courts, Law, liberties
Posted on April 16th, 2009 by Dennis Dale
The four torture memos the Obama administration has promised to release are online in PDF.
Filed under: Courts, Law
