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SUPREME COURT:: Court won’t allow challenge to surveillance law -AP
By MB Snow at February 26, 2013 | 10:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A sharply-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an attempt by U.S. citizens to challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects. via News from The Associated ... Go To Article
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TOBIN: Sotomayor’s Blow to Religious Liberty « Commentary Magazine
By MB Snow at January 2, 2013 | 4:32 pm
Jonathan S. Tobin, 01.02.2013 -- Chief Justice John Roberts’s decision to uphold the constitutionality of ObamaCare ended the discussion about the president’s signature health care legislation as far as most of the media was concerned. But for Americans whose rights have been infringed by the bill’s mandate requiring business owners to pay for services that ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL: ‘Democracy and Disdain’ misses the point of judicial review – WaPo
By MB Snow at December 30, 2012 | 12:50 am
By George F. Will, Published: December 28 While accusing the Supreme Court’s conservative justices of “disdain for democracy,” Pamela S. Karlan proves herself talented at dispensing disdain. The Stanford law professor is, however, less talented at her chosen task of presenting a coherent understanding of judicial review. Still, her “Democracy and Disdain” in ... Go To Article
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ANDREW MCCARTHY: Ordered Liberty » Remembering Judge Bork
By MB Snow at December 20, 2012 | 12:45 am
Andrew C. McCarthy, December 19th, 2012 -- Like Roger Kimball and Michael Ledeen, I was privileged to get to know Judge Robert Bork over the years. That was a thrill because he was a hero of mine long before I met him. I was struck not only by the dignity with which he endured the slanders by which the Left’s lapdogs denied him the Supreme Court seat he so ... Go To Article
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NRO EDITORS:: Judge Robert H. Bork, R.I.P. – NRO
By MB Snow at December 19, 2012 | 1:52 pm
By The Editors -- Had Robert H. Bork never been nominated to the nation’s highest court, he would still have been an important figure in American law. As a professor at Yale Law School; as a scholar who blazed a trail to the reform of antitrust jurisprudence and made important contributions to the emergence of originalism in constitutional law; as a highly regarded ... Go To Article
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JOHN PODHORETZ:: Robert Bork, 1927-2012 « Commentary Magazine
By MB Snow at December 19, 2012 | 1:43 pm
John Podhoretz -- Robert Bork died today at the age of 85, having had the distinction of becoming one of the most famous figures in the realm of public policy of the 20th century in part because of the unprecedented effort to destroy his reputation following his nomination for a seat on the Supreme Court in 1987. Bob’s sin was believing that the job of a ... Go To Article
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JURIST ROBERT BORK, whose failed nomination made history, dies | WashEx
By MB Snow at December 19, 2012 | 10:13 am
December 19, 2012 --AP MCLEAN, Va. (AP) -- Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon's behest and whose failed 1980s nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of cultural fights over abortion, civil rights and other issues, has died. He was 85. Son Robert H. Bork Jr. confirmed his father died Wednesday ... Go To Article
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SUPREME COURT:: High court fight looms over right to carry a gun | Fox News
By MB Snow at December 17, 2012 | 12:08 am
The next big issue in the national debate over guns -- whether people have a right to be armed in public -- is moving closer to Supreme Court review. A provocative ruling by a panel of federal appeals court judges in Chicago struck down the only statewide ban on carrying concealed weapons, in Illinois. The ruling is somewhat at odds with those of other federal courts ... Go To Article
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SUPREME COURT will hear same-sex marriage cases – AP Dispatch
By MB Snow at December 8, 2012 | 12:00 am
Dec 7, 6:28 PM EST, By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court plunged into the contentious issue of gay marriage Friday when it agreed to take up California's ban on same-sex unions and a separate dispute about federal benefits for legally married gay couples. The court's action gives the justices the chance to say by late June whether gay Americans have ... Go To Article
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SCOTUS sends Liberty lawsuit to lower court – POLITICO
By MB Snow at November 26, 2012 | 9:54 am
By JENNIFER HABERKORN | 11/26/12 -- The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to examine the constitutionality of the health reform law’s employer requirements and mandatory coverage of contraceptives without a co-pay. The move could open the door for President Barack Obama’s health law to be back in front of the Supreme Court late ... Go To Article
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