In Politico’s Arena, I tell the following story about Barack Obama. My goal is to get people thinking about whether moral outrage over Rick Perry’s tenuous connection to the “N*****head” rock is politically motivated rather than sincere. [A] couple of basketball courts down the block from my cousin’s house in Chicago … have gained some local notoriety because people remember that, for many years, Obama | Read More »
On last night’s PBS NewsHour, I discussed the politics of confirming President Obama’s judicial nominees with Caroline Fredrickson, executive director of the liberal American Constitution Society. A transcript of the interview and streaming video are available on the NewsHour web site. Here are some excerpts: CURT LEVEY: Caroline accurately pointed out that there are 20 pending [nominees] who have gotten out of committee. But that’s | Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
In his speech at Georgetown today (video here), President Obama relied on a superficially appealing but misleading analogy to defend his plan to tackle health care, energy and education reform while the nation is still mired in recession. Obama analogized critics’ arguments that the nation can’t afford to do everything at once to a parent’s decision about whether their children should attend college – i.e., | Read More »
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