Compare the news out of France and the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday, both involving the limits on offensive speech. In Snyder v. Phelps, the High Court ruled 8-1 that the First Amendment protects the Westboro Baptist Church from being sued for picketing the funerals of U.S. troops with signs such as “Thank God for Dead Soldiers.” The Topeka church’s message is that God hates the | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick The biggest news in today’s ruling that the ObamaCare individual mandate is unconstitutional is the court’s decision to strike down the entire ObamaCare statute because the unconstitutional mandate cannot be severed – that is, separated – from the rest of the statute’s provisions. Today’s decision signals, not only that the individual mandate is unlikely to survive its now-inevitable review by | Read More »
In today’s Washington Post, cartoonist Tom Toles argues that the tea party movement reveals itself to be racist by “want[ing] to go back to the Constitution as it was written,” despite the document’s acquiescence in the continuation of slavery. Toles’s cartoon is a particularly hateful variant of a misleading, but all too common, argument that tries to vilify critics of a “living Constitution” and justify | Read More »
This week, the Senate votes on President Obama’s nomination of District Court Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit. Because of Hamilton’s fundraising activities for ACORN, his leadership positions with the Indiana branch of the ACLU, his statements supporting judicial activism, and most importantly, his rulings putting liberal ideology above the rule of law, he is the first and only Obama circuit nominee to draw | Read More »
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