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The French anti-Semitic comic Dieudonné was acquitted Friday on charges related to a video in which he calls for the release of a self-styled Islamist serving life for the kidnap and murder of a Jewish phone salesman, AFP reported. The controversial performer, who has a string of convictions for anti-Semitic hate speech, was cleared of defamation and illegally defending a convicted criminal because the judge ruled that it had not been proven that Dieudonné was behind the distribution of the video. As a result, the court could not consider the content of his remarks, the judge added in a ruling...

The Supreme Court decision in the Kelo v. City of New London case and the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor provide both the reason and opportunity for the president to nominate and Senate Republicans (and fair-minded Democrats, if there are any of them anymore) to confirm a true constitutional constructionist to the Supreme Court. The Kelo case, which has been the subject of numerous editorials in the past week, is possibly one of the most egregious rulings to be handed down by the Supreme Court since the 1857 Dred Scott decision. The court’s decision in that case excised a...

Dear Friend: A day of decision is upon us. Whether it was the legalization of abortion, the banning of school prayer, the expulsion of the 10 Commandments from public spaces, or the starvation of Terri Schiavo, decisions by the courts have not only changed our nation's course, but even led to the taking of human lives. As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism. For years activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the ACLU, have been quietly working under the...

October 3, 2002 9:00 a.m.New Jersey’s Liberal Constructionists Legislating from the bench. Six of the seven New Jersey supreme-court justices responsible for Wednesday's "interpretation" of the state's election laws to permit the Democratic party to substitute a more credible candidate for the faltering Robert Torricelli were put on the bench by liberal Republican former governor Christine Todd Whitman. Whitman's goal in appointing these men and women was to ensure that legal abortion and other policies favored by social liberals would be protected by the judiciary against legislation that might be enacted by the people's elected representatives in Trenton. (Recall that...