This Week in Washington — March 26, 2012

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  March 26th at 01:00 PM  | 

Shall the federal government be allowed unfettered power over citizens?  That is the ultimate question for nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court this week.  The three days of Supreme Court oral arguments on ObamaCare may be the most important constitutional discussions of our lifetime. This week in Washington is going to be dominated by a national discussion the constitutionality of ObamaCare, yet Congress plods on.  The House of Representatives is expected to take | Read More »

Media Matters Continues Debunked Claim that Kagan is Not Hostile to 2nd Amendment

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 3rd at 07:00 AM  | 

Media Matters for America is pulling out all the stops to support the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.  I dared to write a blog post criticizing Elena Kagan’s lifetime of anti-gun activism as evidence of the way Kagan would act and vote as Supreme Court justice.  Media Matters targeted a few of my claims to criticize, yet they ignored the meat of my blog post.  Media Matters wants Americans to | Read More »

Fact: Kagan is Anti-Second Amendment

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 1st at 02:00 AM  | 

President Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court is hostile to the 2nd Amendment.  That is a fact.  Clear and convincing evidence in the public domain proves that fact.  If you hear the left argue that Elena Kagan is not hostile to the 2nd Amendment, know that those claims are proven incorrect by Kagan’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and her lifetime of anti-gun activism. Media Matters | Read More »

Kagan “Loved” the Bork Hearings

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  June 22nd at 11:00 PM  | 

President Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court Elena Kagan “loved what happened in the Bork hearings.”  “The Bork hearings were great…the Bork hearings were the best thing that ever happened to constitutional democracy.”  (HT to BreitbartTV and Big Government)

Today in Washington, May 14, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 14th at 11:00 AM  | 

The Elena Kagan nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is still in the early stages, but problems are emerging.  Meet and greets for Kagan completed Day 2 and more one-on-one meetings are expected in the days ahead.  Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Scott Brown (R-MA) sounded like supporters of Kagan after one-on-one meetings and had nice things to say about the nominee.  Maybe they don’t even know that Kagan | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 12, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 12th at 11:30 AM  | 

Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be making some house calls for one-on-one courtesy meetings with Senators.  I can’t tell you how many times over the past two days I hear conservatives say “yeah, Kagan is bad, but if she is defeated or withdrawn, we will get somebody worse.”  As many teams are finding out right now in the NBA and NHL playoffs, never look past | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 11, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 11th at 05:00 AM  | 

Yesterday, President Obama rolled out Elena Kagan, the current Solicitor General and nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court.  The left wing noise machine distributed talking points to fight the argument that Kagan’s lacked necessary judicial and legal experience for the Supreme Court.  Nobody, right or left, really knows anything about Kagan’s judicial temperament or philosophy, because of her absence of a body of legal writings.  | Read More »

This Week in Washington – May 10, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 10th at 04:59 AM  | 

Elena Kagan, Diane Wood, Merrick Garland, and Sidney Thomas are all on the short list to be President Obama’ nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court according to the Wall Street Journal.  An announcement is expected as early as this morning.  Kagan is widely believed to be the one to be chosen by The One. The Senate will put in another week on the ObamaBailout bill as the House deals with | Read More »

Elena Kagan Nomination Debate Preview

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 10th at 12:16 AM  | 

President Obama is expected to announce at 10 am this morning that Elena Kagan will be submitted to the Senate for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.  From FoxNews.com: President Barack Obama is to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his pick to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, NBC News reported Sunday. Let the vetting begin.  A preview of the Senate debate on Kagan to be Supreme Court Justice can | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 7, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 7th at 11:22 AM  | 

Elena Kagan — get to know the name.  The Senate and House have a no votes scheduled for today.  Yesterday the Senate completed work on another day of amending S.3217 the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010″ (also known as the ObamaBailout bill).  The buzz in Washington today is about Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, being President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court to replace Justice John | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 4, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 4th at 09:15 AM  | 

Hot day in Washington and things are going to heat up in the debate on the ObamaBailout bill.  Conservatives should focus on understanding the debate in the Senate today on amendments to S.3217, the so called Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010.  Expect more talk and floor speeches about the Gulf Coast Oil Spill and the level of BP’s financial responsibility in the disaster in Washington.  Also, the talk of the town this | Read More »