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Major Hasan Gets to Keep His Beard. That’s Good.

December 5th, 2012

By Dan Miller Getting a clean conviction of Major Hasan is more important than whether he has a clean face. The court martial of Army Major Nidal Hasan, who murdered thirteen people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009 and wounded thirty-two others while screaming Allah Akbar, has dragged on too long. If he had been forcibly […]

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Tags: appeal, beard, court-martial, Fort Hood, Hassan, Islam, judge, terrorist
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ObamaCare Is Likely To Die a Painful Death

October 8th, 2011

By Dan Miller Is the Supreme Court likely to draw and quarter the president’s signature legislation? You betcha. On September 28th, the Obama administration filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court seeking review of the ObamaCare decision rendered by the Eleventh Circuit on August 11th. That decision held the mandatory insurance provisions of […]

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Tags: 2012, appeal, election, individual mandate, Obamacare, Supreme Court
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Fourth Circuit Vacates Lower Court Ruling Adverse to ObamaCare

September 8th, 2011

By Dan Miller On January 31, 2011, Judge Henry Hudson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held ObamaCare an unconstitutional enactment under the Commerce Clause. On September 8th, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the plaintiff there, the Commonwealth of Virginia, lacked standing to seek judicial resolution of […]

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Tags: appeal, Commerce Clause, decision, Liberty Univ, Obamacare, Virginia
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Judges Selected to Hear Florida ObamaCare Case

May 27th, 2011

By Dan Miller According to this article, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals judges who will hear arguments and write the decision in the Florida ObamaCare case have been selected, randomly. The arguments will be held on June 8th. The judges are Chief Judge Joel Dubina and Circuit Judges Frank Hull and Stanley Marcus. For […]

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Tags: 11th Circuit Court, appeal, Florida, judges, Obamacare
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Now Shovel Ready: The Blackwater Criminal Prosecution

May 5th, 2011

By Dan Miller The Court of Appeals is unfazed by prosecutorial misconduct. On April 22, a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order unanimously vacating and remanding the December 31, 2009 decision of Judge Ricardo Urbina in the Blackwater Raven 23 case for further […]

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Tags: appeal, Blackwater, grand jury, indictment, misconduct, Raven 23, Urbina
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