Archive for the 'Courts' Category
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
The Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 decision, has declared that the Federal ban on partial-birth abortion is constitutional: WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long- awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench. The 5-4 ruling said the [...]
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Well, if you are looking for a shinning example of what the Clinton Legacy will be, you need look no further than Supreme Court Justice and Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer: Justice Stephen G. Breyer says the Supreme Court must promote the political rights of minorities and look beyond the Constitution’s text when necessary to ensure [...]
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
Lynne Stewart, lawyer to blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, was sentenced to only 28 months today for passing messages from the terrorist to his followers. NEW YORK – Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was sentenced Monday to 28 months in prison on a terrorism charge for helping a client who plotted to blow up New York [...]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Zarqawi is Dead: The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq assumed room temperature last week when a couple of 500 pound bombs showed up at his safe house, courtesy of the United States Military. Remember when all of the Democrats were telling the public that there was no tie between al-Qaeda and Iraq, and we therefore [...]
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
In order to protect the well-being of a 50 year old convicted child molester, a district judge has sentenced him to probation rather than the prison sentence he deserves: SIDNEY, Neb. — A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 [...]
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui avoided the death penalty by a single vote cast by a holdout on the jury who refused to discuss the reasons for dissenting. Only one juror stood between the death penalty and Zacarias Moussaoui and that juror frustrated his colleagues because he never explained his vote, according to the foreman of the [...]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Seems that a kerfuffle has broken out over a gesture made by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in response to a reporter’s question: Smith was working as a freelance photographer for the Boston archdiocese’s weekly newspaper at a special Mass for lawyers Sunday when a Herald reporter asked the justice how he responds to critics [...]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Samuel Alito was confirmed as the Supreme Court’s 110th Justice: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A sharply divided U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, backing a second conservative nominated by President George W. Bush in his effort to move the nation’s highest court to the right. The largely party-line vote was 58-42 [...]
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
Honest to God, I thought Ted Kennedy’s head was going to explode and cover the entire Senate floor with bourbon: KENNEDY: The march towards knocking down the walls of discrimination that permitted us to pass a 1964 civil right act in public accommodations so people whose skin was not white could go into restaurants and [...]
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
If you haven’t already, you should go read Ann Coulter’s latest column entitled Abortion Stops A Bleeding Heart because it appears NARAL is being thrown under the bus: It’s been a long time coming, but the Democrats are finally throwing the NARAL ladies off the boat. One by one, the Democratic Party keeps having to [...]
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