Why is it top-of-the-roster news for two days in a row that Antonin Scalia isn’t going to attend the State of the Union address? I’ve serious doubts about whether any of the Justices of the Supreme Court should ever do… Continue Reading
Here were my predictions for 2010, and here’s how they did: Jon Huntsman will resign as ambassador to China and begin to lay the groundwork for a Presidential bid in 2012. Has not happened. In retrospect, I failed to credit… Continue Reading
This column suggests that judges should say nothing outside of the four corners of their opinions. But it levies its criticism at John Paul Stevens, David Souter, and Sandra Day O’Connor — three retired Justices of the Supreme Court. I… Continue Reading
I’ve tried, something like twelve times tonight, to load up and watch the oral arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger. I’ve been mostly frustrated. I half-listened to the arguments about standing at work, and they affirmed what I already thought —… Continue Reading
About two months ago I wrote about a judge in Mississippi who imprisoned an attorney for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. As I predicted, the judge received a public reprimand and has acknowledged his error. The attorney who was… Continue Reading
A Federal court in Oklahoma has enjoined certification of the passage of Measure 755, about which I and several others wrote a while back. If you haven’t been keeping up with past episodes, Measure 755 would forbid an Oklahoma court… Continue Reading
One of the things that is most aggravating to me in court is when the judicial officer presiding over a hearing relinquishes control of proceedings to one of the parties – and when that party then uses that latitude from… Continue Reading
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has long been a bête noire of social conservatives. And a look at recent history certainly illustrates why that should be the case. Those whacko, out-of-control, liberal activist judges on the Ninth Circuit just… Continue Reading
I anticipate some flak coming my way on this point after Tea Partiers read below that I criticized Christine O’Donnell. So here is a brief refresher for those among you who see grave Constitutional peril in a particular semantic. The… Continue Reading
This is not news — the Pledge of Allegiance is optional. Always. You are not required, never required, to recite it — and if you do, feel free to omit the late-addition “under God” clause. Requiring someone to recite it… Continue Reading