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John Stormer is an amazing author. He has sold over 11 million books. One, None Dare Call It Treason, sold 7 million. That was in 1964 when there was no internet, no faxes, no talk shows for conservatives. Stormer may have been the first to put a coupon in the back of the book for additional orders. So, a new book by John Stormer means we can assume that he has something else to say. Indeed he does. In Betrayed by the Bench, Stormer traces the lawlessness of so many of today's rulings to the revolt against the common law...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Jeb Bush was in daily contact with congressional leaders in March as court efforts to intervene on behalf of Terri Schiavo faltered, according to e-mails obtained Monday from the governor's office. The e-mails, released to The Palm Beach Post in response to a public records request, also show that state lawmakers persevered with legislative maneuvering to keep the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube intact, despite advice from Bush's top Schiavo attorney that such an effort was hopeless.

The Left invokes the Orwellian euphemism of the "living Constitution" as it promotes and applauds lawless judicial decisions, like Roe v. Wade, that have no conceivable basis in the text or structure of the real Constitution. The "metastasizing Constitution" would be a far more honest moniker. For the real living Constitution — the Constitution that came to life in 1789 and that grew to full fruition with the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments in the aftermath of the Civil War — is suffering from foreign cells metastasizing in its vital organs. The only means of restoring its...

In all my years dealing with constitutional law, I have always said no to judicial impeachment even when from time to time on various issues some conservative activists have argued for it in specific situations. I can generally provide people more arguments against impeachment than for it where judges are concerned. Sometimes I cannot provide arguments for impeachment at all, because all the valid arguments from my point of view mitigated against judicial impeachment in those situations. see also: Dred Scott and Terri Schiavo -- The Long and Tortured Death of the 14th Amendment At the Hands of the Federal...

Appeals court reinstates lawsuit blaming McDonald's for making people fat 2 hours, 15 minutes ago NEW YORK (AP) - A court Tuesday revived a class-action lawsuit blaming McDonald's for making people fat, reinstating claims pertaining to deceptive advertising. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) said New York's general business law requires a plaintiff to show only that deceptive advertising was misleading and that the plaintiff was injured as a result. A lower court judge twice previously tossed out the lawsuit. In a statement, Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's Corp. said "common sense tells you this particular...

With a Supreme Court nomination battle looming large on the horizon and ongoing issues with judicial nominations (including the "nuclear option", etc.), I want to start a ping list for those of you interested in this battle. I will be knee deep "in the fray" in this issue and will have good information to pass on to you all. This ping list will VERY much be worth your while. For more information on judicial nominations in general, go to www.fairjudiciary.com, but in the meantime, if you would like to be notified of information on judicial nominations issues in general and...

The rulings of the Supreme Court in last spring’s landmark affirmative-action and gayrights cases were less surprising than the reasoning used by some of the Court’s justices. In resolving constitutional questions, the Court routinely relies on arguments appealing to the constitutional text and government structure, to precedent and prudence. In Grutter v. Bollinger, however, which upheld the use of racial preferences in law school admissions, and in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down Texas’s prohibition on same-sex sodomy, the Court drew an additional arrow from its quiver. Several justices chose to assess the constitutionality of purely domestic civil-rights and civil...

Human rights organizations will closely monitor every step they take. Judicial activists will analyze everything that takes place in the courtroom. And both U.S. and international news organizations will report the day-to-day proceedings they will be a part of. In short, the eyes of the world will be upon two retired generals working with the military commissions formed to try detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Yet despite this scrutiny – despite the very controversial nature of their assignments – neither Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Hemingway nor retired Army Maj. Gen. John D. Altenburg Jr. are a...

The Campaign to Control America’s Vote Liberal Group Leads Fight Against Bush Judicial Nominees and School Choice By Patrick J. Reilly Summary: Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen is the latest victim of People for the American Way’s campaign against President Bush’s judicial nominees. On September 5, the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 10-9 party-line vote rejected her nomination to the Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. When the electronic voting machines introduced in last month’s Florida primary elections failed to correct the voting irregularities that appeared during the state’s 2000 presidential election, People for the American Way...

The nomination of Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Richard Griffin to the federal bench makes him the latest pawn is an outrageous, lingering stalemate between the White House and the U.S. Senate. It has created a severe shortage of judges. For years, it was a deadlock between the Clinton White House and the Republican-ruled Senate. Now it's between the Bush White House and the narrowly Democatic Senate - where Michigan's Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow essentially have veto power over appointees from their state.On Thursday, President Bush nominated Griffin to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has declared...