http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/courts/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:25:05 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414484/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration said Wednesday it is going forward with a contentious plan to round up about 2,500 wild horses in Nevada. A spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said herds in the Calico Mountains Complex in northwestern Nevada are overpopulated and need to be reduced to protect the horses and the rangelands that support them. "The current population in the five Calico herd management areas is three times what the range can handle, so this gather will ensure high-quality habitat for the wild horse and burros and other wildlife while protecting the public rangeland from overuse,"... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414484/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:25:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410556/posts Albuquerque, N.M., Dec 18, 2009 / 04:12 am (CNA).- Attorneys for a small photography company charged with violating anti-discrimination laws for declining to photograph a same-sex “commitment ceremony” are planning to appeal a New Mexico judge’s decision to uphold the New Mexico Civil Rights Commission’s ruling against them.The Albuquerque company, Elane Photography, is co-owned by Elaine Huguenin and her husband Jon. They are being represented by attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF).In 2006 a woman named Vanessa Willock asked them to photograph a “commitment ceremony” that she and another woman wanted to hold in Taos, N.M. State law does... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410556/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:11:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409773/posts Thursday December 17, 2009 Appeal to be Filed in Case of Photographer Fined for "Discrimination" ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., December 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) will appeal a New Mexico judge's decision to uphold a ruling by the New Mexico Civil Rights Commission against an Albuquerque photography company. The commission ruled that the company, run by a young Christian husband and wife, was guilty of "sexual orientation" discrimination under state antidiscrimination laws for declining to photograph a same-sex "commitment ceremony."   "Christians in the marketplace should not be subject to predatory legal attacks for simply... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409773/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:02:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406700/posts A father has been hit with an unusual restraining order: Keep his daughter away from any religion that is not Jewish. After the girl's parents split up, the father went to a Catholic church and had the girl baptized, CBS station WBBM-TV reports. Joseph Reyes, 35, had his daughter baptized and sent his ex-wife a picture of the ceremony. Rebecca Reyes says she only learned of her daughter's Baptism when Joseph sent her the picture, and that he sent it out of malice. Joseph Reyes denies this. "I sent it because Rebecca asked me for pictures," he said. Rebecca Reyes... cbs3.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406700/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:09:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396257/posts A Vermont judge rules Lisa Miller must turn over her daughter to her former lesbian partner. Superior Judge William Cohen ruled last week that Lisa Miller, a former lesbian who is now a Christian, must hand her daughter, Isabelle, over to her former partner, Janet Jenkins by Jan. 1. Miller conceived Isabella through artificial insemination while she was in a civil union with Jenkins. About a year later, Miller left homosexuality. Jenkins sued for custody, even though she has no biological tie to the child. Miller admits she made mistakes, like signing a custody agreement while still in the relationship... citizenlink.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396257/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:30:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398125/posts Over the past few weeks, a number of local columnists (such as my colleague, David Rosman, and the editor of the Columbia Tribune, Hank Waters) have posted columns defending or praising the administration’s decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four others in a New York civilian court while trying the remaining terrorists by the military tribunal structured by Congress and the Supreme Court for that very purpose. The only area in which I find agreement is that it can be done. Missourian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398125/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 02:39:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398016/posts A convicted sex offender has been charged with beating and sexually assaulting a elderly woman as she gave him a tour of a rural Kandiyohi County church last month. According to charges filed Monday, Lindon Roy Knutson, 61, left the 73-year-old victim bloodied on the ground outside the Crow River Church on the afternoon of Nov. 24. Knutson has been convicted of a string of sexual assaults dating back to 1973 and has spent much of the past three decades in prison. In Wisconsin, he was committed as a habitual sex offender, most recently at a mental health institution in... StarTribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398016/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:08:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389496/posts We very carefully use the word “camp” rather than prison or prisoner of war camp. This is because of an ongoing and profound ambiguity not only in U.S. government perceptions of how to define those held there, but also due to uncertainties in international law, particularly with regard to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Were the U.S. facility at Guantanamo a prison, then its residents would be criminals. If it were a POW camp, then they would be enemy soldiers being held under the rules of war. It has never really been decided which these men are, and therefore their... Stratfor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389496/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383496/posts Federal Bench: Yet another judicial nominee seeks to impose the "empathy" standard on the courts. He thinks judges should base rulings on a plaintiff's status, legislate from the bench and amend the Constitution. Indiana federal judge David Hamilton stands poised to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate to assume a seat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals serving Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. He's a former fundraiser for Acorn and a former leader of the Indiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is also another in a series of activist judges who believe the U.S. Constitution is not... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383496/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:48:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374136/posts Judiciary: The nominee for a California federal district court is an ACLU activist and another advocate for the empathy standard of jurisprudence. He also has a problem with "America the Beautiful." The nomination of Edward Chen is the latest in a series of nominations of people who have no particular fondness for the traditions of law and justice. These nominees see racism everywhere, and believe the courts should be used as instruments of social justice and not to discern the intent of the Founding Fathers who wrote the U.S. Constitution. They believe their "life experience" should be the final arbiter... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374136/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:07:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367099/posts link only per restrictions AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367099/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:17:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2363980/posts President Obama has gone out of his way to "diversify" the federal bench with his spate of nominations of various minorities chief of which was his successful seating of the "wise Latina,' Sonia Sotomayor, on the Supreme Court. Obama's nominees* for 10 district court openings include four African-Americans, three Asian-Americans, one Latino and four women. One of those nominees, San Francisco U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Chen, received a favorable vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington today. So what sort of judge is Edward Chen? Well, for one, the left-wing American Bar Association rated Chen a "well qualified" nominee... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2363980/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:49:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2361116/posts The Federal Courts Are Committing Treason to the Constitution per Chief Justice John Marshall. The federal courts and judges are committing treason to the Constitution by not taking jurisdiction and getting to the merits in the various cases before them regarding the Article II eligibility clause question for Obama. It is worth keeping in mind the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall when he wrote in Cohens v. Virginia 19 US 264 (1821): "It is most true that this Court will not take jurisdiction if it should not: but it is equally true, that it must take... A Place to Ask Questions To Get the Right Answers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2361116/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:27:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360623/posts Under the Senate Judiciary Committee as run by Patrick Leahy, even plans on which the two parties have previously agreed to collaborate disintegrate into partisanship. Witness his effort to expand the federal judiciary now that President Obama can pick the new judges. The original version of the Federal Judgeship Act, proposed in March 2008 and co-sponsored by Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, was supposed to give both parties a say in the composition of an expanded federal judiciary. Then the election results would determine which party's President got to nominate the judges. The idea was to pass a plan and then... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360623/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:16:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350034/posts Democrats aren't satisfied with the one-party state in which they control Congress and the White House and can politicize the Justice Department and take over the banking and automotive industries. Now liberal Democrats are pushing a court-packing scheme as well. A subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on the proposed Federal Judgeship Act of 2009 (S. 1653), which would create positions for 63 new federal judges - 51 in federal district courts and 12 in appeals courts. This proposal is nothing less than a sneaky equivalent of what President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried with his... THE WASHINGTON TIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350034/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:08:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2353486/posts Besides for the fact that liberal justices always make the wrong decision, are usually against the foundations of the United States Constitution, do not believe in the Constitution as our Founders wrote it, believe in putting race above the law, and believe in skipping the Constitutional authority of legislation belonging to the United States Congress, there is one more reason to oppose liberal justices. Montana! Montana? Right Handed Pitcher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2353486/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:39:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346545/posts Judge Andrew Napolitano explains how politicians perverts the commerce clause to rob individuals of their liberty and grow government. youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346545/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:59:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324934/posts The death of Senator Edward Kennedy from a malignant brain tumor superimposes somber intimations of mortality onto a frequently frivolous political scene. It puts us in mind us of what Wordsworth called the "fallings from us, vanishings" that ultimately reconcile us to our own mortality. As a young man Senator Kennedy became, as he is today, the pillar of a large extended family. We extend our sympathies to his family upon his death. Senator Kennedy became the lion of the Senate and of American liberalism. For better or worse, his legislative accomplishments have done much to shape the United States... Powerlineblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324934/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320267/posts Philadelphia's court system will face a "virtual shutdown" if the cash-strapped city does not get state approval for a sales tax increase and changes to how it makes its pension payments. That's according to Mayor Michael Nutter and court officials at a news conference Wednesday. Philadelphia is facing a $1.4 billion five-year budget deficit. The city has asked the state to approve a temporary sales tax increase in Philadelphia and allow changes to how the city makes its pension payments. Without those changes, Nutter says nearly 1,000 police officers and 200 firefighters would be cut. District Attorney Lynne Abraham says... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320267/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:47:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319341/posts "Islamic lands that were occupied by the enemies will once again become Islamic...We proclaim that we will conquer Rome, like Constantinople was conquered once, and as it will be conquered again." - Ali Al-Faqir, the Jordanian Minister for Religious Endowment Britain, birthplace of parliamentary democracy, has fallen to Islam. Oxford, once home to the likes of C.S. Lewis, now houses a giant Eastern Islamic Studies Center. If this were the only Islamic addition to Oxford, the mood would be less somber, but when Oxford citizens are forced to awake every morning to the Muslim call to prayer with the full... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319341/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:16:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319128/posts One conversation was between Gotti and his father in 1998 John Gotti Jr. won the right Tuesday to play edited versions of prison conversations at his upcoming trial that his defense contends show that the mob scion had rejected the gangster life. However he lost bids to delay his upcoming murder conspiracy trial and limit the prosecution's evidence. This is the fourth time Gotti Jr. is being tried on allegations that he still ran his late father's Gambino crime family years after allegedly relinquishing "the life." Some of these prison conversations have been played previously at trial. One conversation... NBC New York http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319128/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:38:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2318823/posts Early in June The New York Times was all aghast that overwhelming debt from medical bills will cause “nearly two out of three bankruptcies” in the US. Since then the White House has also used the statistic as a way to sell Obamacare policies and frighten voters into accepting a nationalized healthcare system. But is it true? Are medical bills the culprit of more than 60% of American bankruptcies? The stark claim that medical debt is the scourge of citizens everywhere comes from a study published in The American Journal of Medicine. Its findings are certainly alarming with an outrageous... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2318823/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:01:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313566/posts A German court has convicted a former army officer of 10 counts of murder in what could be one of the last trials of Nazi-era crimes. Josef Scheungraber was found guilty of giving the order to kill 10 Italians in 1944. Munich's state court found 90-year-old Josef Scheungraber guilty of giving the order to kill 10 Italian civilians in the central Italian town of Falzano di Cortona in 1944. The court also convicted Scheungraber of attempted murder, and acquitted him of four murder counts. He was sentenced to life in prison. The verdict is subject to appeal, but it was... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313566/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:32:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311206/posts Lawyer says defendant did not inform counsel until the day of trial that he would represent himselfHaving dismissed one of Atlanta's pre-eminent defense attorneys in order to defend himself on charges of aiding and abetting terrorists, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee on Thursday spent hours cross-examining his convicted co-defendant, eliciting testimony that seemed to bolster prosecutors' charges. Sadequee's wide-ranging cross-examination of former Georgia Tech student Syed Haris Ahmed -- convicted after a June bench trial before U.S. District Judge William S. Duffey Jr. in Atlanta of conspiracy to aid and abet terrorists -- did little to refute prosecutors' contentions that the two... law.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311206/posts#comment Sat, 8 Aug 2009 07:07:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308235/posts Most Californians know a budget crisis besets our state. But they are only now learning a state bureaucracy in San Francisco, the Administrative Office of the Courts, plans to close every county courthouse on the third Wednesday of each month. ---------- In 2003-04 the Administrative Office of the Courts had 490 employees. Today it has mushroomed to more than 900 employees, a third of them paid more than $100,000. Recently the Administrative Office of the Courts and Judicial Council spent $82,000 on dinners, San Francisco Hilton Hotel suites (including the Presidential Suite), and a professional "facilitator" at a conference called... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308235/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:04:58 GMT