A lawyer once told me that “all’s well that ends” when it comes to litigation. As we enter year six of the investor litigation by American International Group, several Federal Home Loan Banks, and other large investors against Bank America’s
After the 2011 redistricting of the Illinois congressional map, two of the state’s districts were featured on Slate’s list for the 20 most gerrymandered in the country–Illinois’s fourth, and seventeenth districts. After redistricting, the seventeenth became more compact and rational.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the the Supreme Court’s ruling to allow police to take DNA samples from those arrested for serious offenses just “invites abuse” from government. Cruz made his remarks on Mark Levin’s show on Tuesday and emphasized
Video by KEYE–Austin, TX. (AP) A defiant Chrysler is refusing to recall about 2.7 million Jeeps the government says are at risk of a fuel tank fire in a rear-end collision. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent Chrysler a
Last week we reported that President Obama’s agenda may depend on how many judges he can appoint to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Today Obama nominated three legal heavyweights to fill every vacancy on the D.C. Circuit,
(AP) Judge accepts insanity plea in Colo. shooting caseBy DAN ELLIOTTAssociated PressCENTENNIAL, Colo.A judge has accepted James Holmes plea of not guilty by reason of insanity in the Colorado theater shootings. Tuesday’s decision sets the stage for a lengthy mental
Constitutional protections do not forbid police from taking DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes, according to the Supreme Court in its 5-4 decision Monday in Maryland v. King. If someone is arrested on suspicion of having committed certain
More than a million people took to Sao Paulo’s streets for a massive Gay Pride parade, aiming to end discrimination and support same-sex marriage rights in Brazil. Under rainy skies and cold that did not dampen many spirits, marchers waved
(AP) – Convicted Dutch murderer Joran van der Sloot is in love and planning to marry a Peruvian woman in the prison where he’s serving a 28-year sentence, his lawyer said Friday. The couple is awaiting permission from penal authorities
(AP) Clinton supporter gets 2 years for funneling cashBy MATTHEW BARAKATAssociated PressALEXANDRIA, Va.A northern Virginia businessman was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison for illegally funneling nearly $200,000 to Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns in 2006 and 2008.
The assault on Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) from the left is on, and its motivation is obvious: stop this up-and-coming intellectual powerhouse from making traction on the national scene by painting him as a kook. Cruz, who attended Princeton and
Despite the Boy Scouts’ attempt to avoid Democratic ire over their policy prohibiting homosexual scouts – last week the Boy Scouts voted to allow openly gay scouts – the California State Senate rammed through a bill attempting to strip the
On Thursday, during a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on a new bill to ban abortions in the United States after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) continued the abortion advocates’ illogical position that funding a “Planned Parenthood clinic
President Barack Obama is finalizing an aggressive strategy to pack a court. It’s not the Supreme Court; it’s the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Whether Obama’s agenda succeeds or fails turns on whether he remakes
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take case where a federal appeals court struck down an Indiana law denying Medicaid funds to abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Medicaid is a federal-state partnership where government pays for healthcare for low-income Americans.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by a vote of 97-0, and he should already be considered someone on President Obama’s
On May 26, MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson described Virginia lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson as “a black puppet” who carries a white supremacist message. Jackson is a black man, and is urging Christians in the black community to
In September of 2010 Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) railed against 501(c) groups and their influence on 2010’s congressional elections following the Supreme Court Decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. “There’s nobody watching,” she warned; “there’s nobody asking questions.” McCaskill
Breitbart News reported on Jan. 25 that the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. declared President Barack Obama’s recess appointments unconstitutional. Now another federal appeals court has done so as well, all but guaranteeing the Supreme Court will take up
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has changed its century-old policy to bring into membership open and avowed homosexual youths through age 17. However, the Scouts will maintain the ban on anyone ages 18+ who is homosexual, meaning that a
During the May 22 broadcast of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation,” host Neil Conan repeatedly contradicted a guest by claiming that the IRS has nothing at all to do with Obamacare. NPR’s Conan is, of course, completely incorrect.
According to the New York Post, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg went crazy last Thursday, hurling invective at the owner of a taxi fleet who approached him the day after a court ruled against Bloomberg’s plan to replace city cabs
The so-called “separation of Church and State” is invoked so often it might as well appear on the dollar bill. John Eastman, law professor at Chapman University, reminds us the phrase isn’t in the Constitution as many people incorrectly believe.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Arizona’s law that bans abortions after 20 weeks violates other abortion rulings, including Roe v. Wade. A U.S. district judge upheld the law in July 2012, but the ACLU and Center for
In response to Dems Still Trying to Make IRS Scandal About Citizens United: At the Wall Street Journal, Justice Department veterans David Rivkin and Lee Casey discuss how Citizens United loomed large in the Left’s imagination, even as the IRS scandal was
