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SCOTUS to Review Arizona Immigration Law Case

December 13th, 2011

By Dan Miller Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from the Ninth Circuit decision of April 11th holding the then new Arizona immigration statutes unconstitutional due to federal preemption. Of some interest, Justice Elena Kagan will not take part in the Arizona case, presumably because of her work on the issue when [...]

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Tags: 9th Circuit, Arizona, Constitution, decision, immigration, Law, Supreme Court
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The Text of U. S. v. State of Arizona Has Been Published

April 12th, 2011

By Dan Miller Ever the foolish optimist, I noted in a comment to this Tatler article that before getting all feverish about the 9th Circuit decision on the Arizona immigration laws it would be a good idea to wait for the text. The text of the 9th Circuit decision in United States v. State of [...]

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Tags: 9th Circuit, appeal, Arizona, illegal, immigration, Law, U.S.
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The Immigration Conundrum

May 1st, 2010

By Tom Carter There’s a lot of political chattering and commentating in the media these days about illegal immigration (for example, here, here, and here). The current high level of consternation was caused by a new law in Arizona, which basically is an attempt to step into the void created by the federal government’s long-term [...]

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Tags: alien, Arizona, conservative, illegal, immigration, Law, liberal, reform
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Comcast Decision May Thwart EPA CO2 Finding

April 20th, 2010

By Dan Miller On April 6, 2010, a three judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held unanimously in Comcast Corporation v. FCC that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had overstepped its statutory authority in attempting to regulate certain aspects of cable internet service, in a decision written [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: air quality standards, Clean Air Act, Comcast, Congress, EPA, FCC, Law
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Health Care Fears

April 3rd, 2010

By Tom Carter There are lots of concerns about the new health care law, some valid and others not. Confusing media reports, partisan pundits, and hysterical chain e-mails have created an environment of fear, at least among some people. Kaiser Health News has published an interesting article addressing some of the specific fears people have, [...]

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Tags: false, fears, health care, Law, Limbaugh, true
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For the Greater Good

April 2nd, 2010

By Larry Ennis My mother and I share the dubious distinction of both being senior citizens, her at 90 and me at 70. Both of us receive Social Security and Medicare. We are both concerned about what our status will be under the new health care law. As more information emerges it’s beginning to appear [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: costs, health care, Law, Medicare, seniors, Social Security
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Crisis in the Church

March 28th, 2010

By Tom Carter One doesn’t have to be anti-Roman to view with dismay the current crisis in the Catholic Church — decades of sexual abuse of children and adolescents by Catholic priests. The Church has consistently shielded these priests from law enforcement, failed to discipline them in meaningful ways, and often reassigned them to other [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Benedict XVI, Catholic, Church, criminal, Law, Pope, sexual abuse
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Multiculturalism in Action

February 22nd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Of course, that was said back in the good old days, when people were simply oblivious to evil. Today I’m not sure that even Edmund Burke would quite understand the idea of a culture that, through the [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: culture, death penalty, justice, Law, multiculturalism, Muslim
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Justice for Terrorists

January 9th, 2010

By Tom Carter The Obama Administration’s decision to try some terrorists in federal court as common criminals is controversial. This policy has been applied to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen apprehended in the United States, as well as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others, non-U.S. citizens captured in foreign countries. Other terrorists have also been tried, [...]

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Tags: Constitution, enemy combatant, Law, terrorism, terrorist, trial
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Thou Shall Not Govern

November 12th, 2009

By Harvey Grund When I ran across a recent article at Air America online titled Abortion Restrictions In House Bill Show Power Of Organized Religion In Politics, I broke into a sweat! (Well, not literally.) However, how could it be that I, a self-professed proponent of conservatism, could agree with anything that the “wacko libs” [...]

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Tags: abortion, conservative, health care, Law, liberal, religion
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You Are Above the Law

September 1st, 2009

That’s a bold thing for anyone to say, especially someone who used to be a peace officer, but I’ll repeat it: you are above the law. I do not mean to say that you are free to injure people, far from it. What I mean is that you are above the law when you sit [...]

Articles written by Brian Bagent
Tags: juror, jury nullification, Law
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Equal Justice Under Law

August 27th, 2009

In 1974, when President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, Senator Ted Kennedy said: Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen, and another for the high and mighty?

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Ford, justice, Kennedy, Law, Nixon, pardon
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Sotomayor Decision Overturned

June 29th, 2009

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today on Ricci v. DeStefano, an appeal of a decision of a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Sonia Sotomayor, now a Supreme Court nominee, was a member of the three-judge panel and joined in the decision that has now been overturned. As reported, The Supreme Court [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Law, Ricci v. DeStefano, Sotomayor, Supreme Court
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Gun Battle Continues

June 17th, 2009

The gun control battle isn’t over yet, but the end is getting closer. The Supreme Court is likely to hear a case of some sort before too long that will resolve the question of whether the Second Amendment applies to the states. It may surprise some that not all of the amendments known as the Bill of [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: gun control, Law, Second Amendment, Supreme Court
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Confirm Sotomayor

June 9th, 2009

David Brooks supports the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Brooks is a veteran journalist and political commentator, now a columnist for The New York Times, in addition to commentating on TV. At the NYT, he’s seen as the resident conservative. He does, indeed, seem like a reincarnation of [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Law, Sotomayor, Supreme Court
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Your Tax Dollars at Work

May 30th, 2009

A Tennessee man, Desmond Hatchett, 29, has 20 or 21 children. He’s not sure of the exact number. That’s with 11 or more different women. He’s not sure. Apparently, some of them were dumb enough to keep coming back for more. Kids, that is. His youngest is a newborn; the oldest is 11. Hatchett can’t [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Law, welfare
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Life Without Parole for Juveniles?

May 28th, 2009

During the Supreme Court’s next term (begins the first Monday in October) the cases of two juveniles who have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole will be heard by the Justices. The two then juveniles are now adults. One, Joe Sullivan, was sentenced at the age of 13 for raping [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: juvenile, Law, life sentence
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Repeal the 17th Amendment

May 26th, 2009

Does it strike no one else as odd that we have what amounts to two Houses of Representatives? Does it strike no one else as odd that with two (unequal) Houses that even the least populated states get the same representation in the Senate? Why would the framers have done something so redundant when nearly [...]

Articles written by Brian Bagent
Tags: Law, Senate, U.S. Constitution
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Parental or Government Rights?

May 18th, 2009

A disturbing case of parental neglect (or perhaps parental rights) has arisen in Minnesota; the report is in the Digital Journal. Daniel Hauser is 13 years old, he is now in 5th grade (three years behind), but he cannot recognize the simplest written word — Daniel is illiterate. Daniel also has cancer. Daniel was diagnosed [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Law, Parental rights, religion
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Those Hateful Hate Crimes

May 16th, 2009

A small article in a recent USA Today mentioned that, on the previous day, the State of Maryland added homeless people to their growing list of people who are protected under hate crimes legislation. What this means is, if you commit a crime against a homeless person because they are homeless or a crime against a [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: hate crimes, Law
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