Obama Administration Tells Supreme Court 'Lawfully' Doesn't Mean 'Legally'

(Hat tip: KimR) - “Lawfully” does not mean “legally.” Welcome to what Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the Supreme Court on Monday is the “immigration world.” Or, more accurately, welcome to the new world President Barack Obama — through his solicitor — is asking the Supreme Court to join him in declaring. Read more at the Cybercast News Service Read More......

Supremes weigh government grab of private land

(Hat tip: KimR) - Can a government define a piece of land as a building parcel, collect taxes on it from the owners for years, then abruptly tell them they can’t use it, sell it or be compensated for it? --The U.S. Supreme Court will answer that question when it rules this year on a case concerning a piece of land along the St. Croix River, near Minnesota’s Twin Cities. Read more at World Net Daily Read More......

Scotus’ Unconstitutional Lawmaking and Article V

(Hat tip: KimR) - It is no secret that American courts have wandered far outside the business of adjudicating. Every summer, the nation holds its breath in anticipation of the latest batch of scotus opinions. Last June, the questions were: Will homosexual marriage become a right across the land? Is there an unconstitutional penalty within Obamacare, or is it a constitutional tax? Read more at Article V Blog Read More......

Supreme Court's tie vote upholds public employee fees for unions

(Hat tip: KimR) - The Supreme Court announced a tie vote today in what labor law experts had called a "life-or-death" case for public employee unions. The split decision preserves a long-standing rule that requires about half of the nation's teachers, transit workers and other public employees to pay a "fair share fee" to support their union. Read more at the Los Angeles Times Read More......

Supreme Court knocks down SJC’s stun-gun ruling

(Hat tip: KimR) - The Supreme Court has zapped a decision by the Bay State’s highest court that found the Second Amendment does not apply to stun guns. The nation’s highest court ruled that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s reasoning for allowing a ban of stun guns ran afoul of a 2008 decision by the late Justice Antonin Scalia that guaranteed an individual’s right to possess a firearm for traditionally lawful purposes. Read more at the Boston Herald Read More......

The Senate Must Deny Obama’s Bid to Transform the Supreme Court

(Hat tip: KimR) - I think very highly of Merrick Garland, whom President Obama has nominated to fill the Supreme Court seat of the late, legendary Justice Antonin Scalia. Merrick was a voice of reason and sound judgment as a top official in the Clinton Justice Department during the Nineties when I was prosecuting terrorists. It seems hard to believe now, but our decision to charge the Blind Sheikh and other jihadists with seditious conspiracy (i.e., conspiracy to levy war against the United States) was controversial at the time. Read more at Accuracy in Media Read More......

The Borking Liberal Media Goes to Work for Merrick Garland

(Hat tip: KimR) - The media campaign to replace the conservative late Justice Antonin Scalia with an Obama appointee has begun. It won’t be pretty. Republicans will be accused in the media -- actually they are already being accused -- of being “obstructionists” and worse in blocking the appointment of Judge Merrick Garland. But how did it get this way with the media, Democrats and Supreme Court nominations in the first place? Read more at Newsbusters Read More......

Obama Scotus Pick is anti-gun Zealot

(Hat tip: KimR) - Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz warns as part of his stump speech that we are one Supreme Court Justice away from losing our Second Amendment Right to keep and bear arms. On Wednesday, President Obama nominated for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia just such an individual... Read more at the American Thinker Read More......

Obama’s Empty Judicial Chairs

(Hat tip: KimR) - On a hot day in June, the grandson of a bank president took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the daughter of sharecroppers. “I feel compelled to rise on this issue to express, in the strongest terms, my opposition to the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit,” Senator Obama said. Read more at Accuracy in Media Read More......

Obama’s Empty Judicial Chairs

(Hat tip: KimR) - On a hot day in June, the grandson of a bank president took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the daughter of sharecroppers. “I feel compelled to rise on this issue to express, in the strongest terms, my opposition to the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit,” Senator Obama said. Read more at Accuracy in Media Read More......

McConnell: Not a 'snowball's chance in hell' I'll relent on SCOTUS

(Hat tip: KimR) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a group of staunch House conservatives there isn't "a snowball's chance in hell" that he will back down from his opposition to confirming a Supreme Court justice before a new president is elected. Read more at Politico Read More......

No Deference Is Called For on Judicial Nominees

(Hat tip: KimR) - I'm sorry that the crucial importance of Justice Scalia's now-vacant seat on the Supreme Court meant that the heated battle over filling it was already well underway while most of us, reeling from the profound loss, craved a respectable interval to console his loved ones and reflect on his epic legacy. Read more at Accuracy in Media Read More......

10 Times Democrats Vowed To Block Republican Court Nominees

(Hat tip: KimR) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) has vowed to block any of lame-duck President Obama's Supreme Court nominations. The media have taken to acting as if this move is unprecedented, and that a senator has never publicly stated he would intentionally block a presidential nomination. Not true. Read more at the Federalist Read More......

Scalia's Death Saves Unions From Momentous Ruling Ending Political Power

(Hat tip: KimR) - As the nation and official Washington prepared to mourn the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, watchers of the high court began to assess the immediate impact of his death on several pending cases whose decisions might have had momentous political implications. Read more at Newsmax Read More......

"No" Is Why America Elected Republicans

(Hat tip: KimR) - The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at 79 has been a gut punch for those who follow the Constitution, and a reason for glee from those who celebrate the death of anyone who disagrees with them. Also, allegedly, it has created a constitutional crisis of monumental proportions as Democrats demand the GOP-controlled Senate confirm whomever President Obama decides to nominate to fill the position. But there is no crisis. There is only one word: No. Read more at Townhall.com Read More......

Scalia's Passing and the Circus to Follow

(Hat tip: KimR) - Most of the time when someone famous or important dies, expressions of profound grief on the part of the public are tiresome at best, representing the cultural triumph of sloppy and overwrought sentimentality. Most such deaths, while tragic to friends, family, and loved ones, have no effect whatsoever on the overwhelming majority of those expressing sadness. Their lives will go on unchanged in any way... Read more at the Political Forum Read More......

Justice Scalia, Political Philosopher and Political Football

(Hat tip: KimR) - It is difficult to summarize briefly such a monumental career as that of Justice Antonin Scalia, let alone to do so not with the distance of history but in the heat of the most heated of political moments – in the midst of a presidential campaign, on the evening of a potentially make-or-break primary debate, and in the middle of a Supreme Court Term with many big cases that could end 4-4 without him. But for a man who was quick with the pen and the barb from the bench, perhaps it was meant to be that way. Read more at National Review Read More......

Immigration at the high court: The coming decision

(Hat tip: KimR) - This spring, in United States v. Texas, the Supreme Court will decide the legality of President Obama's executive action on immigration, known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA). Critically, the court ordered the Obama administration to answer a pivotal question: Whether DAPA "violates the take-care clause of the Constitution." Read more at Philly.com Read More......

Horowitz: Will Justice Sotomayor Recuse Herself from the upcoming Obama Amnesty Case?

(Hat tip: KimR) - Our judicial branch of government is irrevocably broken, even more so than the other two branches. To begin with, the entire premise of the judiciary being the final arbiter over constitutional questions is wrong. They have usurped power beyond the imagination of our Founders, even those who were skeptical of Article III. Worse, they refuse to use the Constitution as originally conceived as the guideline for determining the constitutionality of laws... Read more at Conservative Review Read More......

26 states ask Supreme Court to halt Obama’s carbon emissions plan

This should be interesting. One state after another have been pushing back on the new EPA carbon emission guidelines, with many of them refusing to file a plan for compliance until the courts have weighed in. Now some of the biggest energy producing states are trying to bring the situation to a head well in advance of the normal challenge and appeal process.

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