II. WRITTEN OPINIONS vs. OFF-THE-CUFF TELEVISION INTERVIEWS Chief Justice Roberts has boasted that his Court is unique because “[w]e give a reasoned explanation …We have to spell out in our opinions exactly why we’re doing what we’re doing…. Everybody else can look at it [sic].” On February 5, Justice Sotomayor chimed in, claiming that justices […]
III. SPECIFIC VALUE and POLICY JUDGMENTS: Capital Punishment Few subjects exemplify the themes discussed here better than the crusade to protect murderers and rapists. For decades, various justices have virulently and surreptitiously opposed capital punishment. For example, with outright contempt for the Constitution’s clear language, Justices Brennan and Marshall asserted that it bans capital punishment […]
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) tweeted that he observed IRS agents training with AR-15s when he toured the Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Insecurity: The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won’t snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) passed an amendment in the House Armed Services Committee protecting religious speech of service members in the military. President Barack Obama has now threatened to veto the bill if it passes the full House and Senate.
Why are Republicans devoting all their energy to slightly increasing their share of the Hispanic vote while alienating everyone else in America?
Former U.S. spy Edward Snowden on Wednesday vowed to fight any bid to extradite him from Hong Kong and promised “explosive” new revelations about Washington’s surveillance targets.
Conservative Ron Futrell knew to expect plenty of left-of-center jibes when he settled into his seat to see Bill Maher at The Pearl Theater in Las Vegas June 8.
In the United States, we are supposed to have a government that is limited with its parameters established by our Constitution. Read more from Rand Paul here.
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the recent stories about massive NSA spying, isn’t taking kindly to a number of liberal media types who appear suddenly and oddly sympathetic to our collective lack of privacy.