Andrew McCarthy tells the tale of babies born alive after failed abortions and how Barack Obama was more concerned about doctors’ legal liabilities than the innocent lives at stake. The transcript Andrew quotes from shows a staggering lack of concern for the living newborns: one of the things that we were concerned about, or at…
Category: Law
Another, Better SCOTUS Decision
The Supreme Court, by a narrow 5-4 margin, has decided that the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution means what it says. In a 5-to-4 decision, the majority opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, held for the first time that the Constitution provides an individual right to bear arms, such as for self-defense, rather than a…
5 Blind Mice, See How They Vote
The Supreme Court botched another important case today by disallowing the Louisiana law that allowed the death penalty to be administered to child rapists. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said there was “a distinction between intentional first-degree murder on the one hand and non-homicide crimes against individual persons,” even such “devastating” crimes…
The End of Hate in Our Time
In the words of Canada’s Human Rights Commission’s senior counsel Ian Fine, the commission is necessary because "there can’t be enough laws against hate." This during a panel on human right’s commissions in which Fine was caught twice in lies – or glaring ignorance – about the commission’s activities. Actually, a single law against hate…
Voter ID Laws Rankle Left
Legal scholar Jeffery Toobin thinks laws requiring voters to show a valid picture ID before voting are biased in favor of Republicans. This argument makes sense given the affinity of poorer Americans to vote Democratic. But is that relevant? Two principles of free and fair elections are contradictory, that we count every vote and that…
Illegal Immigrant Crackdown
The NY Times reports that immigration officials have been running a rapid-fire prosecution program aimed at illegal aliens who’d fraudulently used other people’s identification to gain employment with Agriprocessors Inc. Nearly 400 people were processed through the special court. 94 were convicted on Wednesday alone. For the math-challenged, that’s nearly 12 convictions per hour. That…
Partial Birth Abortion OK in Virginia
The New York Times says that a 3-person panel from the U.S. Appeals Court 4th Circuit has rejected the state’s partial birth abortion law, a ban modeled on the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last year. Why did this happen? Seems like it should have been a…
Defending Judicial Activism
Mark at Publius Endures wrote a couple of keen posts about the gay marriage decision in California and the role of the judiciary in controlling the law. In the first, Mark defends judicial activism by quoting extensively from Alexander Hamilton’s writings in the Federalist Papers. Interesting reading. The constitutional republic that is the United States,…
Gay Marriage OK in California
The California Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision in favor of allowing same-sex couples to marry is an unfortunate rejection of Christian morality. Glen Greenwald points out that it’s hardly unexpected given the state’s precedents before going on to say that the democratic process in California legitimizes the ruling, a claim of dubious accuracy, as demonstrated by…
Obama’s Agenda for Judges
Here’s one more reason not to vote for Barack Obama, as any more were needed. According to his campaign, Mr. Obama, if elected to the presidency, has every intention of seating liberal, activist judges. "Barack Obama," explained spokesman Tommy Vietor, "has always believed that our courts should stand up for social and economic justice, and…