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Supreme Court Protects Obama Illegal Amnesty The Supreme Court Legislates from the Bench Criminal Illegals Released for Coronavirus Violate House Arrest Orders Often Stealing an Election: California’s Mail-in Ballot Scam U.S. Research Agency Fires Dozens of Scientists with Ties to China Supreme Court Protects Obama Illegal Amnesty Chief Justice Roberts and four liberal Supreme Court Justices ruled against the Trump administration’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty program. In doing so it has undermined the Constitution. Obama’s decision to provide amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens under the DACA program was unlawful,...

I just had a liberal friend tell me that the terms "legislating from the bench" and "activist judges" stem ONLY from the right wing nuts. I KNOW this is not true, but I am having a hard time finding articles which come from the left when talking about Bush nominees or actual cases where activist judges legislated from the bench. In case you guys hadn't seen (something I caught a ton of in my searching), there are a PILE of articles piling up that are blaming conservatives for making up the whole activist judge thing. They're saying that we only...

Judge Charles Pickering was appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a recess appointment by President Bush, after years of battling senators over his confirmation. Pickering has now written a book about his experience. At Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Miss., Judge Charles Pickering offered powerful insight into his fight for judicial confirmation. Pickering released "Supreme Chaos," his thoughts and ideals on what is wrong with the entire judicial confirmation process, and he touches on what he believes was a crusade against his appointment.

JEFF JACOBYThe end of the gay marriage debate? By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist  |  May 16, 2004 THIS IS THE week that same-sex marriage comes to Massachusetts, and thus to the United States. The fundamental building block of civilization is about to undergo a radical change -- a change opposed by a majority of American adults. How did this happen? The joining of gay and lesbian couples in marriage may turn out to be the most consequential development of our lifetimes. How did we get here? The answer to that question has several parts. At the most obvious level, the...

University of Western Ontario and well-known among lawyers as one of the most prominent legal commentators in Canada. Everyone who still appreciates our national heritage of freedom under law should ponder his latest book, aptly titled, The Most Dangerous Branch: How the Supreme Court of Canada Has Undermined Our Law and Our Democracy. With this title, Martin ironically alludes to the assurance by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers on June 14, 1778, that the people had nothing to fear from the powers conferred on the judiciary by the proposed Constitution of the United States. He wrote: "The judiciary, from...