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The Supreme Court has refused to take up an emoluments case filed by Democrats back in 2017. That means the lower court ruling that Democrats do not have standing to bring the case will stand. This little corner of the resistance is dead: The Supreme Court on Tuesday put an end to a lawsuit brought by congressional Democrats that accused President Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution with his business dealings.The justices refused to hear an appeal by 215 Senate and House of Representatives Democrats of a lower court ruling that found that the lawmakers...

The Senate Judiciary Committee began the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Monday to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The hearing is expected to last about four days. The first day was devoted to opening remarks by the members of the committee, with Judge Barrett delivering her powerful prepared statement towards the end of the day’s session. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, started things off by providing assurances that the in-person hearings were being conducted in compliance with CDC protocols. He praised Judge Barrett’s record and character....

Amy Coney Barrett was a star student in her three years at the University of Notre Dame’s law school, graduating at the top of her class. A few years later she was back as a professor, at age 30. She wore glasses to look more imposing, she said in a talk last year. One of her students at the time, seeing her standing near the podium, thought she was a classmate. But the impression was quickly dispatched. “The moment she opened her mouth, you know she’s brilliant,” said Patrick Kilbane, now an attorney in Florida. *** According to students, former...

A broad coalition of lawmakers, public interest groups, and grassroots citizens rallied behind Amy Coney Barrett in her first day of hearings today for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. According to senators on the Judiciary Committee evaluating her nomination, Barrett handled the first day of hearings with grace, humility, and tenacity. “[Barrett] acknowledged the fact that so much of what the Democrats said today was bunk, and she did it with a smile, and she did it without having to use the word jackwagon or anything close to it,” Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said. “She did it by...

... at her Senate confirmation hearing

With the disgraceful spectacle of the Kavanaugh hearings still fresh in many people’s memories, America is about to witness another Supreme Court confirmation process, one that may make the last one look dignified by comparison. That would be a shame, because Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a sterling nominee who has shown a reverence for America’s laws and sovereignty. In her Rose Garden introduction as the nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge Barrett threw down the gauntlet. “I love the United States and I love the United States Constitution,” she said. While that may sound admirable to most people,...

Many women—and some men—feel a sense of obligation to vote for the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket and thereby help a woman achieve the presidency. Today, I make the case that we must wait—out of respect for all little girls in America who need and deserve a more authentic role model as the first female president of the United States.  Technically, Harris is running for vice president. However, both Biden and Harris have referred to themselves as the aspiring “Harris administration.” We can take their word for it: the ultimate plan is for Harris to take the reins. Is she worthy...

CNN portrays itself as a news organization. And says that at her confirmation hearings, Amy Coney Barrett will "portray" herself as a wife, mother, and in line with Antonin Scalia.The difference is that ACB is a wife, mother, and in line with Antonin Scalia . . . but CNN is not a news organization. That CNN is nothing more than a thinly-disguised propaganda arm of the Democrats was on double display during this morning's New Day. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough asked Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer on Monday why the Democrats couldn’t complete the work of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and “add a couple of justices” to the Supreme Court of the United States. “Why can’t Democrats Constitutionally finish what FDR started back over 80 years ago and add a couple of justices in response to Republican radicalism?” Scarborough asked Schumer on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Roosevelt threatened to enlarge the Supreme Court when the body initially opposed his New Deal legislation. “It’s Constitutional. And by [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s standard, you would be...

As the confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment commences we are girding ourselves to be inundated with plenty of mewling and complaining from Democrats and the press. There will be constant complaints about the inappropriateness of the process, about how unethical the voting will be, and why it is wrong to make an appointment in an election year. Most of this will be delivered without much in the way of historical context. The first objection we heard regarded how close to an election Ruth Bader Ginsberg had passed away. Many were saying that President Trump should not nominate an...

Twenty-four of the country’s 28 GOP governors are backing the Senate confirmation of White House nominee Amy Coney Barrett – with President Trump critics Govs. Charles Baker and Larry Hogan among those not in support. Baker is the governor of Massachusetts, and Hogan is the governor of Maryland. The two other GOP governors who did not sign the letter are Chris Sununu of New Hampshire and Phil Scott of Vermont.

When you’ve lost Jake Tapper, you’ve lost control of the narrative. – The Biden/Harris Harris/Biden campaign lost control of the narrative over packing the Supreme Court over the weekend. It obviously won’t last long, because their pals in the news media won’t allow it to do so, but Sunday was fun nonetheless. Here is Mr. Tapper, actually having a moment of journalistic integrity with the Deputy Campaign Manager for the Biden/Harris Harris/Biden disinformation campaign, Kate Bedingfield: Tapper began by pointing out that Biden, who had previously said that adding justices to the Supreme Court was “a bonehead idea,” was suddenly...

It's time to face a hard truth about the Supreme Court fight that begins this week. There is no secret trick to stopping President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans from jamming through Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. There is no last-minute magic parliamentary maneuver that Minority Leader Chuck Schumer can use to stop the process. The rules allow him to slow it down a little, but that's it. And there's no argument that's going to be persuasive enough to shame Senate Republicans to look within themselves and do the right thing. No, the...

Democrats seem to want to decide for everyone what the word "long" means pertaining to "long established" precedent even though many decisions from SCOTUS haven't been decided for a long time, secondly they more often than not apply a thinly-veiled religious litmus test, and third they are often openly hostile towards Christianity/Catholicism, but not other religions, thus revealing their bigotry.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told reporters on Monday that Democrats’ approach to the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett showed that they wanted a “politician” on the bench, not a judge. Democrats, he said, think “all justices are politicians, and so they want a politician that’ll vote for their cases.” Paul spoke after the opening round of statements on the Senate Judiciary Committee on day one of Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings. They had focused their statements in the confirmation hearing on policy questions like Obamacare, he said. “instead of whether of not a justice will adhere to the law.” Republicans,...

President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 12 that the Supreme Court shouldn’t try to make policy. “I have been nominated to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat, but no one will ever take her place,” Barrett writes in her remarks, which she is expected to present to the committee. Her remarks will present her legal philosophy and will stress that she is a proponent of the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s legal theories. Barrett previously was a legal clerk for Scalia, who died in 2016. “It was the content...

It may have something to do with the value the two minority faiths place on higher education and the religions’ openness to intellectual inquiry, said John Fea, professor of American history at Messiah College. “Unlike evangelicals who base their entire worldview on the teachings of the Bible, Catholics and Jews seem much more open to engaging in larger principles that will affect not only their own community, but the common good of the republic or of a nation beyond the needs of their particular religious tradition," Fea said. For most of America’s history, the court was composed almost entirely of...

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Chris Coons said on Sunday that the Senate moving to confirm President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett "constitutes court-packing," and called the nominee's views "disqualifying." Coons, D-Del., made the comments during an interview with "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., also spoke with Wallace Sunday. "I'm going to be laying out the ways in which Judge Barrett's views ... are not just extreme, they're disqualifying," Coons said of Democrats' strategy for Barrett's hearings. "It constitutes court-packing." Court-packing's traditional definition is expanding the Supreme Court by law and then confirming...

Judge will praise her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and emphasize her belief that it is not the job of the Supreme Court to create policy in the text of her opening statement obtained by Fox News. "Courts have a vital responsibility to enforce the rule of law, which is critical to a free society," Barrett's opening statement reads. "But courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the People." Barrett...