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In a move hailed by some as a significant stride towards judicial impartiality, the Judicial Conference of the United States has announced a new policy aimed squarely at curtailing the practice known as “judge shopping.” This policy requires that, in certain civil cases with statewide or national implications, judges are to be assigned randomly within the judicial district, effectively dismantling a litigant’s ability to handpick judges likely to rule in their favor. The new policy, which touches on cases that seek either a declaratory judgment or any form of injunctive relief against state or federal actions, arrives in the wake...

Could it Swallow up all American's Wealth within one Generation; the Transformative Effects of the Administrative State and of Obamacare may result in the ultimate property distribution for MOST Americans if their medical care leaves them a ward of the State's Inheritance Laws....

Today we see an age of anomie—lawlessness. The laws of God are being ignored and His commandments jettisoned. Indeed, it is a lawless age in which we live—reminiscent of what Jesus said in parable about what would come when He went off to a far country. The citizens would hate Him, and they would cry out, “We will not have this man to reign over us” (Luke 19:14). The great question before the nations is: Will men and nations submit to having Jesus Christ, the Divine Creator of the world reign over them? God’s purpose in this world is to...

The time has come to question if Islam is protected under our First Amendment rights to freedom of religion. Yes, everyone in America has the right to freedom of religion, but Islam is not a religion. Religious faith is only a part of Islam. The rest is a socially engineered society with its own laws and customs that seriously conflict with American law. Is Great Britain a religion because they have the Church of England? Of course not. Britain has an established charter, civil and criminal laws, and a society that respects those laws. Islam has the Qur'an that provides...

Is an illegal immigrant a criminal, by virtue of being in the country illegally? No, a civil infraction is not a crime Yes, all of those people are criminals by virtue of their immigration status I don't know I don't care

Civil jury trials are following the path of the dinosaurs: They are becoming extinct. And as they vanish, some lawyers worry that the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the guarantee of a trial by jury, may also disappear. "It's all a matter of economics," Dale Hicks, president of the San Antonio chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, says. [. . .] The disappearing civil law trial phenomenon is not exclusive to state district courts or Texas. The same thing is happening in district and federal courts across the country — a trend that has become a hot...

This program will address the recent proliferation of criminal laws that regulate business and individual conduct traditionally left to the free market or civil law. The program will feature: Introductory remarks by the Honorable Jerry Patterson, Commissioner, General Land Office Cato scholar Gene Healy, editor of the new book “Go Directly To Jail” The Honorable Bill Hammond, Former state representative, President of the Texas Association of Business

Freedom brings Happiness All people want to be free. We can only grow and learn to the degree that we are free. We can only know true fulfilment to the degree that we are free. It is only through being free that mankind can reach his potential. In short, we can only be happy to the degree that we are free, for those things which bring us true joy can only be obtained through the use of those faculties which freedom vouchsafes to us; and through experience we know that being forced or coerced is anathema to both the human...

The Goodrich decision has more to it than meets the eye.The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in the majority opinion, "took note" of what marriage is.Except that the existing laws of Massachusetts and every other state were passed under the assumption that marriage was something else entirely.The SJC used its judicial notice to rule that the marriage law of Massachusetts was invalid, because it did not conform to the Court's (and so far only the Court's) definition of what marriage really is.So, the question immediately arises, are marriages licensed by the State under its invalid marriage statute valid, legal marriages?Is anyone...

That which God at the time of creation of the nature of man infused into his heart for his preservation; and this is lex aerterna, the moral law, called also the law of nature. And by this law written with the finger of God in the heart of man, were the people of God a long time governed, before the law was written by Moses, who was the first reporter or writer of law in the world. -Lord Edward Coke (1610). There exists a dichotomy between God's sovereignty and the sovereignty of man as expressed in jurisprudence. It becomes possible,...