Posted on 03/17/2009 12:57:48 PM PDT by careyb
He did receive attention for two rulings striking down actions of conservatives in the Indiana legislature. In 2005, he made news by ruling that the legislature was prohibited from beginning its sessions with overtly Christian prayers.
The decision drew widespread criticism in the legislature and across the state. On appeal, a panel of the Seventh Circuit dismissed the ruling, saying the people in whose name the American Civil Liberties Union had brought the suit lacked standing because they had not been harmed by the prayers.
In 2008, Judge Hamilton struck down as unconstitutional an amendment to the state law requiring convicted sex offenders to provide the authorities with personal information, including any e-mail addresses or user names. The amendment would also have required the offenders to agree to allow their home computers to be searched at any time and to pay for a program to allow monitoring of their Internet use.
The judge said the amendment cut into the heart of a person’s right to privacy in his home.
“The ability of the individual to retreat into his home and therefore to be free from unreasonable intrusion by the government stands at the very core” of constitutional protections against unreasonable searches, he said.
Judge Hamilton graduated from Yale Law School before serving as a law clerk to Judge Richard D. Cudahy of the Seventh Circuit, who is generally viewed as a liberal jurist.
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Does that mean that he prefers Lenin to Mao?
Ginsberg was called a moderate.
Sort of along the same lines as Hussein’s moderate terrorists.
Riiiiight.
Someone needs to show this @#$!&* that convicted sex offenders are not entitled to “privacy rights” the way law abiding citizens are. It’s called punishment and it’s what society is allowed to do to criminals. Guess this liberal doesn’t have any kids, or maybe he just doesn’t care about them.
Wasn’t this nominee also an ACORN fund-raiser?
Convicted sex offenders should be spending their lives in jail. That way the problems of recidivism and the zone of appropriate privacy never come into play. Toss them in the ol’ 6x10 and be done with it.
A typical NY Times “moderate!”
So, we can safely assume that he wouldn’t apply these Constitutional safeguards to citizens who hadn’t been convicted of crimes. Moderate to me has a whole different connotation. Chief Justice Roberts is a moderate. A conservative judge would be looking for a case that spoke to the enumerated powers of government and would be closing half of the existing agencies. That’s judicial activism I can support.
He’s a leftist to the core. What idiot would believe he’s a moderate?
Only the soon-to-be-defunct New York Times could label this insidious creature a “moderate”.
“Moderate” to the NYSlimes translates into America hating socialist any where else.
Does that mean that he prefers Lenin to Mao?””
Yes, this is the new and progressive definition of moderate.
To a Marxist a leftist is a moderate.
This fellow is as moderate as the staff at the NYT’s.
Moonbat activist scum.
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