Supreme Court finds non-gay marriage, dog sniff right to privacy

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  April 7th at 04:02 PM  | 

Liberal trial lawyer Democrats, small government tea partier conservative Republicans, and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justices Scalia, Thomas, Kagan, Ginsburg and Sotomayor quietly found common civil liberties ground during gay marriage week. Observing the blanket press coverage of the recent week of oral arguments concerning California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act before the nation’s highest court, one could be forgiven for | Read More »

Court can’t let Democrats’ standing duplicity leave marriage laws defenseless

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  March 28th at 10:27 AM  | 

Conservatives should welcome the Supreme Court’s inquiry in “standing” issues. The U.S. Constitution makes clear that: “The judicial power of the United States shall extend to all Cases…arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and…-to Controversies to which the United States shall be a party…” – Article III, Section 2. This “cases and controversies” clause makes clear that courts do not exist | Read More »

ObamaCare: 60 Senate Democrats, Bill Clinton, two Kennedys, five lawyers and Election 2012

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  March 28th at 04:20 PM  | 

The fate of the republic is not in the hands of one Supreme Court justice From listening to the media commentary during the extraordinary past three days of oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court, one would think that Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy decreed that ObamaCare would be the law of the land unless he gets talked out of it this week. It is | Read More »

Kagan, Obama and repressed liberal shame

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 6th at 10:23 PM  | 

Watching former prosecutor and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions (R-AL) cross-examine Elena Kagan, President Barak Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, I was reminded of the familiar adage that: “If you aren’t a liberal at age 20, you have no heart; and if you aren’t a conservative at 40, you have no brain.” The senator asked the | Read More »

Kagan mirrors Obama rule by men, rejects rule of law

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 1st at 09:25 AM  | 

Tea parties rejecting rule by men in favor of the rule of law would follow an effective exposure of the views of President Barack Obama and his Supreme Court nominee’s views. “Since elections have consequences”, we are told by not a few Republican senators, Elena Kagan should be deemed qualified and appointed for life to the Supreme Court so long as her judicial philosophy is “in the mainstream”. No matter that | Read More »

Thurgood Marshall v Malcolm X; Alito v O’Connor; the passing of Atlanta legal giant and other DeVine Law

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  October 29th at 03:04 PM  | 

Henry Troutman, Jr., the son of the founder of the Atlanta law firm that became famous as Troutman Sanders in legal circles throughout the South and beyond, passed away at the age of 86 this week at his Hilton Head Island, S.C. home. Troutman Sanders was intimately involved in all of the great legal and economic events of the past century that made Atlanta the | Read More »

Sessions-led GOP takes historic stand against Sotomayor

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 6th at 05:28 PM  | 

Obama’s first Supreme Court Justice confirmed with support of less than 25% of Republican senators The discredited “Hatch” strategy is dead as its founder, Orrin Hatch (R-UT) followed his Ranking Member replacement on the Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), pictured, in voting against Sonia Sotomayor despite the “consequences” of the election of a Democratic Party president. Gone are the days when Hatch boasted of super-majority | Read More »

Sears nomination could de-rail un-Hatched GOP strategy

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 14th at 09:24 AM  | 

DeVine Gamecock Law (pictured) recently made clear his loathing of past GOP strategies concerning Supreme Court nominees made by Democratic Party presidents. Yes, the president is elected and election have consequences, but senators are elected too, and the Constitution is written. Supreme Court nominees should not be affirmed merely because an elected President nominates a judge that hasn’t been convicted of a crime. They must | Read More »

Un-Hatch a new strategy for challenging liberal judicial nominees

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 1st at 02:16 PM  | 

Given the Democratic Party’s huge majority in the U.S. Senate, conservatives and Republicans cannot prevent President Barack Obama from appointing a replacement for the retiring Justice David Souter that will echo the Left’s unconstitutional judicial philosophy that regularly re-writes our founding documents. All the more reason to focus on setting the stage for future nomination fights and establishing and maintaining credibility on the issue of | Read More »