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SCOTUS kills Arizona welfare for politicians

By: J.P. Freire 06/07/10 12:00 AM
Arizona’s “Clean Elections” act punished privately-funded candidates by rendering their fundraising moot — for every dollar a privately-funded candidate spent, taxpayers would be forced to kick in a dollar for the candidate who receives public funds. Read More

Frivolous lawsuit over global warming may go Supreme

By: David Freddoso 06/06/10 12:00 AM
A few months back, I wrote about a global warming lawsuit in Mississippi, Comer v. Murphy Oil. Landowners were suing an oil company for supposedly causing global warming, which supposedly caused Hurricane Katrina to hit them with extra ferocity. Read More

Strong Supreme Court precedent in support of Arizona immigration law

By: Joel S. Gehrke Jr. 05/20/10 12:00 AM
On Monday, the ACLU announced a lawsuit challenging the Arizona illegal immigration law on the basis of the “prohibition on unreasonable seizures under the 14th and Fourth Amendments.” Read More

Evening reading: Financial foxes guarding the henhouse, Goldman inanity, Government Motors, and more

By: Timothy P. Carney 04/26/10 12:00 AM
Here are some good stories I wanted to blog on today, but never got a chance: Read More

In WH meeting, 'Only two of the elected officials in the room had never filibustered a Supreme Court nominee'

By: Byron York 04/21/10 12:00 AM
When Senate leaders went to the White House Wednesday morning to discuss the Supreme Court opening, the meeting was attended by President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and ranking member Patrick Leahy and Jeff Sessions, and Senate majority and minority leaders Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell. Read More

With justice retiring, pivotal time for court’s future

By: James R. Copland 04/15/10 12:00 AM
When Justice John Paul Stevens announced last Friday that he was stepping down from the U.S. Supreme Court, it signaled the end of one of the longest tenures in the court’s history: Stevens’ 34 years on the high bench are only two years shy of the record service of his immediate predecessor, William O. Douglas. Like David Souter, who retired last summer, Stevens was a Republican-appointed jurist who migrated left in his years on the court. Read More

Justice Stevens was no champion of the little guy

By: Timothy P. Carney 04/14/10 12:00 AM
President Obama said his nominee to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court would "be someone who, like Justice Stevens, knows that in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens." Read More

Holder Senate testimony postponed; delay raises questions

By: Examiner Staff Writer 03/23/10 12:00 AM
Attorney General Eric Holder was scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. But less than 24 hours before the appearance, committee Democrats sent out word that Holder's long-awaited testimony has been rescheduled for April 14, after the Easter recess. Read More

Ill wind blows for political speech from Stevens' Citizens United dissent

By: Mark Tapscott 01/28/10 2:00 AM
As heartening as was Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion for the 5-4 majority in the Citizens United v Federal Election Commission case before the Supreme Court, there are aspects of Justice John Paul Stevens dissent that are anything but encouraging. Stevens adopts a view that if adopted by the Court could do tremendous damage to freedom of political speech in this country, according to Mark Fitzgibbons, a Virginia attorney, writing on American Thinker. Read More

The audacity of Barack Obama's populist posturing

By: Timothy P. Carney 01/27/10 2:00 AM
How will last week's Supreme Court decision liberating corporate and nonprofit political activity affect the 2010 and 2012 elections? Primarily by making it easier for President Obama to pose as a populist when he's out campaigning. Read More

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