Showing posts with label Supreme Court 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supreme Court 2012. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Thomas Sowell Recognizes Tom Dewey In Mitt Romney

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Thomas Sowell recognizes Tom Dewey in Mitt Romney here , as did we, and divines the horrible consequences of Romney's loss: Quite aside ...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

US Embassy Cairo Decides Religious Feelings Trump Free Speech

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I'm sure the Supremes are amused by the attempt to assert the priority of one clause of the First Amendment over another clause of the F...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Conservative Supremes Insist It's An Unconstitutional Penalty, Not A Tax, But Romney Gets Attacked For Saying The Same Thing

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So-called conservatives are upset with Mitt Romney's team for calling the ObamaCare mandate an unconstitutional penalty, not a tax, whic...
Monday, July 2, 2012

ObamaCare Taxes Are In Fact New Income Taxes

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The Wall Street Journal here agrees that the ObamaCare ruling has simply and incorrectly shifted government's drive for unlimited power...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

Dissenting Justices' Opinion Lectures Roberts, Giving Up Debating Him

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So Jan Crawford for CBS News, here : The majority decisions were due on June 1, and the dissenters set about writing a response, due on June...

George Will Only Imagines Congress' Power Has Been Limited, But It Hasn't

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Here : If the mandate had been upheld under the Commerce Clause, the Supreme Court would have decisively construed this clause so permissive...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Dissenting Supremes Affirm The Principle That Coercion Voids Contracts

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Here : When federal legislation gives the States a real choice whether to accept or decline a federal aid package, the federal-state relatio...

Dissenting Supremes Decry "Verbal Wizardry"

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Here : "That carries verbal wizardry too far, deep into the forbidden land of the sophists." "Tax" is spelled with a ...

Dissenting Supremes Question Whether ObamaCare's "Tax" Is A Direct Tax Which Must Be Apportioned According To Population

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I told you so. Quite apart from the problem of the Court rewriting the legislation's penalty as a tax, which amounts to rewriting the d...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

No, We Don't Miss You Anymore. Your Guy In The Supremes Just Screwed Us.

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Our Enemy, The State

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Justice Stephen Breyer, Secular Humanist: We'll Decide What's Enduring

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Man the measure of all things: “Why would people want to live under the ‘dead hand’ of an eighteenth-century constitution that preserved not...
Monday, April 23, 2012

The New York Times Discusses Bipartisan Culpability For The Imperial Presidency

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Here : Mr. Obama's new approach puts him in the company of his recent predecessors. Mr. Bush, for example, failed to persuade Congress t...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Prof. Stephen Presser Says Obama Should Be Ashamed Of Himself About Activism Charge

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For CNN.com no less, here : "[I]t is the task of the Supreme Court to rein in majoritarian legislatures when they go beyond what the Co...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

There Is No Lie Obama Will Not Tell

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"[T]he Supreme Court has been overturning acts of Congress ever since [1803], on average every 16 months. So overturning Obamacare woul...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Evidently Obama Learned Hostility Toward Marbury v. Madison (1803) at Harvard Law

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From an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, pointing out there would be nothing unprecedented in the Supreme Court overturning ObamaCare: ...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Obama Calls Supremes "An Unelected Group of People" Like That's a Problem

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Now that we know that the constitutional "scholar" grasps the fact that the Supremes are not elected but appointed by the presiden...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Justices Appointed By Republican Presidents Have Been Opponents Of Conservatism

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In the attack on the traditional values of the American people, Republican presidents bear heavy responsibility for betraying them by their ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

US District Judge Says Hutaree Militia Entitled To Oppose Government With Words

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AP Obama reports, here , via mlive.com: "They're entitled to oppose the government with their words," Roberts said. "It...
Monday, March 19, 2012

The Individual Mandate: An Unprecedented Assertion of Government Power

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Adam J. White for The Weekly Standard here  makes the case that the Supreme Court of the United States has quite a history of ruling against...