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A Texas man released on a $2 bail for allegedly choking and kidnapping his former girlfriend was rearrested within days for continuing to threaten her... Aubrey Taylor was arrested after allegedly holding his former girlfriend hostage, choking and terrorizing her on Dec. 27 in Harris County, Texas. He was offered a $2 bond — $1 for each count — during his court date on Jan. 13 and was rearrested on Jan. 18 for violating court orders and allegedly threatening the victim.. “Repeat offender accused of beating woman gets $1 bond. Horrific,” said Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbot on Twitter. “Texans...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the Department of Justice was ending the “executive branch legal activism” of the previous administration, while also fighting the judicial activism of liberal judges. “I think the department did become too political” under President Barack Obama, Sessions said. “Essentially, it was executive branch legal activism. They would take cases or regulations or statutes and expand or redefine the meaning of words in them to advance the agenda that they thought ought to be advanced — an agenda that often had zero chance of passing Congress, where...

The battle in the courts over same sex marriage is vexing. The law appears to be intruding upon society in a way that is fundamentally different from anything before. It is a demand for the right to change the culture. What a strange thing that is. I don't believe anyone thinks that of all the rights in the constitution the right to same sex marriage was ever imagined to be an intended outcome. Now we have a judge who has just ruled in favor of changing the culture. It is as if these people go off and check horoscopes, read...

EDMONTON, March 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Edmonton man who videoed himself sexually abusing his step-children so he could distribute the material to other pedophiles has been handed a three and a half year sentence.Carl Treleaven was part of an international ring of child molesters and pedophiles whose crimes were described last week by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as “the worst imaginable forms of child pornography.” The material, transmitted from user to user via an on-line chat room often streamed live acts with children – one as young as 18 months.A Calgary-based child advocate and herself a victim...

Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday that if activist judges don't stop challenging the Defense of Marriage Act that protects states from being compelled to recognize gay marriage, he'll push for passage of a constitutional gay marriage ban. Asked if he would bring up the marriage amendment this year, Frist told "Fox News Sunday," "Not this year but in all likelihood, in this Congress. "The Defense of Marriage Act is again being questioned by activist judges all over the country," he warned. " If they continue to question it, we'll bring it up sooner. Otherwise I expect it...

With the public rise of the values voter, efforts against judicial activism have also been gaining ground. One person likely to find himself at the center of this debate is U.S. District Judge Gary Lancaster, who as recently as August advocated for judicial restraint: "Far be it for a district judge to, at best, misinterpret and at worst, appear to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court." Late last week, however, Judge Lancaster dismissed United States v. Extreme Associates, declaring federal obscenity statutes unconstitutional and tossing out three decades of Supreme Court precedent. So much for judicial restraint. The case centered on...

I don't want to pick a fight with Chief Justice William Rehnquist for whom I have great admiration, especially when he's gravely ill, but he just wrote something with which I cannot agree. So here goes. In his traditional year-end report on the federal courts Justice Rehnquist wrote that judges must be protected from political threats, including those from conservative Republicans who maintain that "judicial activists" should be impeached and removed from office. "The Constitution protects judicial independence not to benefit judges, but to promote the rule of law: Judges are expected to administer the law fairly, without regard to...

Berlusconi cleared of corruption Mr Berlusconi had maintained his innocence Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been cleared of corruption after a four-year trial. Mr Berlusconi had been accused of bribing judges in the 1980s to favour his business interests. He was acquitted on one count, and on the other judges in Milan ruled that the alleged offence happened too long ago for charges to be pressed. Mr Berlusconi, who was not in court for the verdict, said the decision was "better late than never". He is the first serving Italian prime minister to have been tried a criminal court....

NEW ORLEANS – A man accused of running a sham abortion clinic and tricking women in order to keep them from getting abortions was ordered Wednesday to disconnect his phone and stop giving advice. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against William A. Graham, who was accused of listing the business phone of his Causeway Center for Women under "Abortion Services" and making misleading statements aimed at delaying women until it was too late for them to get legal abortions. Among other accusations, the lawsuit brought by an abortion rights organization alleges trademark infringement...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – ACLU and Planned Parenthood sued Monday to block a Florida ballot measure that would pave the way for a law requiring parents to be told when their minor daughters seek abortions. The lawsuit argues that the ballot summary for the proposed constitutional amendment is misleading, leading voters to think they're preserving rights when, in fact, the measure takes them away. State lawmakers voted this spring to put the proposed constitutional change before voters. The ballot summary says state lawmakers "shall not limit or deny the privacy rights guaranteed to minors" under the U.S. Constitution. But the summary...

WICHITA, Kan. – A federal judge ruled Monday that doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in Kansas cannot be forced to report instances of underage sex to authorities. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten issued a preliminary injunction blocking Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline's interpretation of a state law. Sex involving someone under 16 is illegal in Kansas, even if it involves willing same-age partners. Last July, Kline said the 1982 law requires doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, social workers and others to report such illegal underage sex to law enforcement officials or the state. Kline said such reporting is required...