http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/supremecourt/ en-us Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:17:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415149/posts The democrat's Supreme Court ruled abortion was legal throughout the United States despite state laws regulating individually by "inventing" (re-defining) a patient's "right to privacy" in medical terms. That is, by re-defining the natural "right to privacy" for matters between a doctor and patient as a reason for REMOVING a specific specially-selected form of medical treatment (abortion) from state regulation in Roe vs Wade by a narrow 5-4 vote on ideological lines, the socialists/democrats on the Supreme Court moved medicine from state control to national control. Well, more accurately, they moved it from state control into national "illegal to control"... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415149/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:17:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414402/posts Folks, I hate to be a perpetual gloomster here, but anyone putting his faith in a Supreme Court reversal of any of this health non-care monstrosity has another think coming. First, the USSC seldom rules in favor of constitutionally limited government. Even in the Affirmative Action slapdown of the University of Michigan several years ago, the Court said in essence, “what you’re doing is wrong the way you’re doing it, but try other methods to reach racial balance.” In the notorious Kelo case, the Court affirmed the right of a local government to take land from one person and give... Patriot's History of the United States http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414402/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:08:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414053/posts I know Jim DeMint has requested a ruling on the Constitutionality of the HealthCare bill but, doesn't the Supreme Court automatically review legislation? And given that the makeup of the court is still in our favor, for the most part, don't we stand a good chance of having the whole thing ruled as un-Constitutional even if we do lose the final vote? Checks and balances, you know? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414053/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:24:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410477/posts Thomson prison: Illinois attorney general rules Gov. Pat Quinn can sell Thomson prisonIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Thursday that Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn has the authority to sell the state prison that the federal government wants to use for terrorist suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The legal opinion by the Democratic chief legal officer swept aside Republican questions on whether state law required lawmakers to sign off before the barely used Thomson Correctional Center in northwestern Illinois could be sold. Madigan wrote that state law provides the governor with the necessary authority to close and sell the prison... 911NeverForget.Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410477/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:34:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408113/posts For the Family Research Council, Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski warned in a Washington Times op ed that a case on gun rights that will soon come before the Supreme Court could "trigger the unhinging of American culture." Not only do I think the pair went too far in their claim, I also think they missed several key reasons why their worst fear of the end of state's rights and federalism is misplaced, even as their warning is well taken. What Blackwell and Klukowski are worried about is that the upcoming McDonald v City of Chicago case could open a... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408113/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407992/posts When Justice John Paul Stevens, who is 89, retires—and he's expected to in the next year or so—there will be no Protestant left on the highest court in the land. Will President Obama be pressured to appoint one? Popular opinion once held that even one Catholic was too many on the court. Today there are six. But would anyone even notice if Obama appointed a seventh to replace Stevens? Once upon a time, there was an outright religious litmus test for Supreme Court appointees. Today religion is almost irrelevant in appointing new justices. All of which raises a question: Are... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407992/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:30:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404249/posts Yesterday, Michael Dreeben, the attorney representing the U.S. government, tried to defend the controversial “honest services” statute from a constitutional challenge in front of the Supreme Court. When Dreeben informed the Court that the feds have essentially criminalized any ethical lapse in the workplace, Justice Breyer exclaimed, [T]here are 150 million workers in the United States. I think possibly 140 [million] of them flunk your test. There it is. Some of us have been trying to draw more attention to the dangerous trend of overcriminalization. Judge Alex Kozinski co-authored an article in my book entitled “You’re (Probably) a Federal Criminal.”... The Cato Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404249/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:11:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400911/posts Are you a “Tenther?” No, that’s not someone who lives in a tent to remain off the grid -- although that may be something we Tenthers will soon consider. No, “the Tenthers are the ones who keep citing the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution every time there is a proposed bill they don’t like, claiming the Constitution prohibits it,” as liberal commentator Alan Colmes explains on his Web site. Well, get ready, because if the health insurance reform legislation now under consideration in the Senate passes, the Tenth Amendment could be all that stands between Americans and the road to... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400911/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:50:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399272/posts Glendale, AZ --(AmmoLand.com)- The Arizona Citizens Defense League has joined with other pro-rights individuals, groups and several district attorneys in the filing of an “amicus (friend of the court) brief” with the United State Supreme Court in the case of McDonald v. Chicago, the most critical Second Amendment case since the Heller decision upheld our individual right to keep and bear arms. In April 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in Nordyke v. King that the Second Amendment is “incorporated” through the Fourteenth Amendment and applicable to all state and local governments. However in McDonald... ammoland.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399272/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:16:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395967/posts Wal Mart does it again. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favor of the chain store. In 2005, the store in Jonquiree, Quebec was closed because of the recent union certification of the stores employees. This, of course, led to various court runs by the displaced employees of the store. At the end of 2005, the Quebec Labor Board ordered Wal Mart to compensate the former employees. (http://wakeupwalmart.com/facts/) Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada has seen fit to rule 4-3 in favor of the company. As usual Huntington Political Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395967/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388080/posts BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation today filed its much-anticipated brief to the United States Supreme Court in the case of McDonald v. Chicago, which challenges the constitutionality of that city's ban on handguns. SAF is joined in the lawsuit by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) and four individual plaintiffs. They are represented by attorney Alan Gura, who successfully argued the landmark Heller case before the high court in 2008, leading to a ruling that the Second Amendment affirms and protects an individual right to keep and bear arms beyond the scope of serving in... SAF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388080/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:52:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383707/posts Recent Supreme Court activity could pave the way for the death sentence given to Mumia Abu-Jamal to be carried out after 28 years. The Right Stuff http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383707/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:18:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382307/posts The private homes New London, Conn., took through eminent domain from Suzette Kelo and others, are torn down now, but Pfizer has just announced that it closing up shop at the research facility that led to the condemnation. Leading drugmakers Pfizer and Wyeth have merged, and as a result, are trimming some jobs. That includes axing the 1,400 jobs at their sparkling new research & development facility in New London, and moving some across the river to Groton. To lure those jobs to New London a decade ago, the local government promised to demolish the older residential neighborhood adjacent to... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382307/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:10:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381920/posts Lawyers for two Florida men who were sentenced to life without parole as juveniles will argue to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday that the penalty is cruel and unusual. Death is different. With those words, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 declared that the execution of adolescents was cruel and unusual punishment, and, hence, a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The ruling halted capital punishment for juveniles in 25 states. On Monday, the lawyers for two Florida men who, as juveniles, were sentenced to life without parole for nonhomicides will ask the nation's highest court to declare the... Miami Dade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381920/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 04:17:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378258/posts HARRISBURG - Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican judge from Western Pennsylvania, prevailed in the Philadelphia suburbs yesterday to claim a decisive win in the hard-fought battle for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court. Melvin's victory shifts the political balance on the state's most powerful bench to Republican, and could portend a re-energized conservative base in the 2010 gubernatorial and congressional elections. With 91 percent of ballots counted, Melvin had won every suburban county around Philadelphia except Montgomery, where Democrat Jack Panella of Easton led by only a few hundred votes. "It's clear to me she won because of the... The Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378258/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:17:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2378018/posts Joan Orie Melvin is maintaining a 6% lead over Jack Panella for the lone vacancy on the Commonwealth Supreme Court. This contest is considered critical due to a 3-3 party split in the current court makeup. Panella had been heavilly favored to win, but in the waning days of the campaign, his lead dwindled and he begin running attack ads on Orie Melvin as a right wing extremist. Commonwealth Website (updating) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2378018/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:42:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375255/posts A New Jersy appeals court has concludedthat Americans have no Second Amendment right to buy a handgun http://jkshaws.wordpress.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375255/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:17:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372338/posts Earlier today, Liberal news makers and bloggers such as the Huffington Post rushed to their keyboards to make another attack on Conservatism. They were responding to a rumor going around that Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia had claimed he would have been against the decision of the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. ... Unspun America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372338/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:54:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371706/posts Once upon a time a newly elected President, supported by an adoring media, claimed powers beyond the Constitution, and the Supreme Court acted. Does that Court still sit? Some of us are asking ourselves that question these days. A week doesn't pass when some new federal infringement on the rights of a free society is enacted or promoted. Just recently, Obama's Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, cut the salaries of twenty-five senior Wall Street executives. By what Constitutional authority does he do that? we ask. While the Democratic Party seems hell bent on socializing as many parts of the free market... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371706/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:12:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364537/posts C-SPAN gives viewers a rare look into the U.S. Supreme Court with interviews with the nine sitting Justices and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Recent programs: Chief Justice John Roberts (55 min. 17 sec.) Justice Samuel Alito (29 min. 52 sec.) Justice Stephen Breyer (51 min. 39 sec.) Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (36 min. 46 sec.) Justice Anthony Kennedy (37 min. 52 sec.) Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (33 min. 18 sec.) Justice Antonin Scalia (32 min.) Justice John Paul Stevens (35 min. 16 sec.) Justice Sonia Sotomayor (38 min. 24 sec.) Justice Clarence Thomas (48 min. 19 sec.) CSPAN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364537/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:23:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363918/posts Introduction In this essay I will attempt to show that the powers granted to the Federal Judiciary were excessive, that the creation of an all-powerful, unaccountable Supreme Court was a grave error that made the expansion of Federal power inevitable, and virtually limitless. I will then provide a brief investigation into the original meaning of the Commerce Clause. Last, I will argue that the harm created through Commerce Clause jurisprudence appears irreversible, having been upheld and applied by Justice Scalia and the liberal wing of the Court as recently as 2005. If Justice Scalia not only unwilling to overturn past... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363918/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:29:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361483/posts WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling's appeal of his convictions for his role in the collapse of the energy giant, accepting another high-profile challenge to a favorite tool of prosecutors in white-collar and public corruption cases. Skilling's appeal stems from his convictions in 2006 on 19 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading and lying to auditors involving the 2001 collapse of Enron. The justices already are entertaining similar claims from former newspaper magnate Conrad Black and a former Alaska lawmaker ensnared in a public corruption scandal. At issue in... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361483/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:29:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2361397/posts “Desperate” Impact? by: Brittany Fortier, October 13, 2009 As the Supreme Court begins a new session, the Cato Institute held its 8th annual Constitution Day Conference and Supreme Court Review on September 17, 2009. This day also marked the 222nd anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, and panelists discussed whether the Supreme Court decisions of the previous year were faithful to the intentions of our Founding Fathers. Roger Clegg, President and General Counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, called the “disparate impact” approach to civil rights law used by the Court in cases such as Ricci v.... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2361397/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:54:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2357613/posts Supreme Court Means by: Sarah Carlsruh, October 08, 2009 In honor of the Supreme Court opening its October 2009 term, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosted a panel of law experts on October 2nd to discuss the court’s key, upcoming business cases. “It’s shaping up to be a good term for business cases,” declared John Elwood, a partner at the Washington, D.C. office of Vinson & Elkins. Elwood specializes in appellate and Supreme Court practice. Elwood claimed that Free Enterprise Fund (FEF) v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) hinges on an issue of separation of powers and government regulation.... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2357613/posts#comment Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:06:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356969/posts Conflict of Interest Resolved by: Brittany Fortier, October 07, 2009 Would you know bias when you see it? A majority of Supreme Court justices don’t seem to, particularly when it concerns their own judicial profession. Brad Smith, Professor of Law at Capital University Law School and former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), discussed the case of Caperton v. Massey Coal at the Cato Institute’s Supreme Court Review on September 17, 2009. The case involved Massey Coal’s decision not to purchase Caperton’s mine located in Buchanan County, VA, after an extended period of negotiations. Caperton, alleging fraud and... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356969/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 19:11:28 GMT