Outrageous Judicial Activism Overturns Michigan’s Racial Preferences Ban

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  July 1st at 10:05 PM  | 

In one of the most outrageous examples of judicial activism ever seen, a 3-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has struck down the voter-approved Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), which bans racial and gender preferences in Michigan’s public employment, education and contracting. In today’s 2-1 decision, two Clinton appointees came to the startling conclusion that MCRI violates the U.S. | Read More »

Defense of Marriage Act, ObamaCare and Kagan

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 08:37 PM  | 

President Obama’s decision today to abandon the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is both outrageous—as a matter of Justice Department policy and constitutional law—and a miscalculation that will decreases the chances of ObamaCare being implemented, while potentially increasing calls for Supreme Court Justice Kagan to recuse herself from certain gay rights cases. The President’s refusal to defend DOMA, a federal statute enacted by overwhelming margins | Read More »