Tag: Supreme Court

A story published Friday by Bloomberg News surveyed constitutionallaw experts around the country and found that the overwhelming majorityof respondents believe the Supreme Court has no proper grounds on whichto strike down the mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act.

While my colleague Joel Pollak suggests this morning that the Supreme Court “struck down the form – but not the substance” of Arizona’s immigration law, the truth seems to be the opposite: the Supreme Court defanged the Arizona law to

If, as widely forecast, the Supreme Court votes down Obamacare on Thursday with Anthony Kennedy as the deciding vote, President Obama will likely shift his campaign strategy directly against the Supreme Court – and Kennedy in particular. So far, President

The key vote in today’s Arizona immigration bill decision belonged not to Justice Anthony Kennedy – who, when it doubt, votes for what he perceives to be “personal freedom” considerations – but Chief Justice John Roberts, whom conservatives were told

In a 5-3 decision (Justice Elena Kagan had recused herself), the Supreme Court has struck down the form–but not the substance–of the controversial Arizona immigration law, SB 1070. The opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy held that immigration law–including the decision

Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner is a congenital optimist. But when he looks at photos of his grandchildren, he sees them potentially burdened with debt they will pay off due to the fiscal mismanagement of the country’s current crop of

FCC fines imposed on two broadcast networks were set aside by the Supreme Court last week as unconstitutional. This case of FCC v. Fox Television was a free speech challenge to a federal indecency law, but the Court caught the

One of the causes Andrew Breitbart cared about most passionately was disproving the lie that Tea Party members had hurled the “N-word”–not once, but more than a dozen times–at black members of Congress as they marched through a large crowd

Nothing galvanized and united conservatives more than President Barack Obama’s overreach on Obamacare. During the 2012 Republican presidential primary, Obamacare was an albatross around Mitt Romney’s neck and may still be, because many of Obamacare’s provisions — such as the

The late Andrew Breitbart offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who could provide video evidence that a “chorus” of Tea Party supporters who rallied on Capitol Hill in 2010 to protest Obamacare shouted the “N-word” and other obscenities at African-American

It seems the Obama administration saw the writing on the wall after the Obamacare oral arguments ended. According to a Politico report, the administration has spent “at least $2.7 billion since oral arguments in the case ended on March 28” on Obamacare,

(AP) Obama, Romney seek advantage on health care rulingBy JULIE PACE and STEVE PEOPLESAssociated PressWASHINGTONTheir positions are clear. President Barack Obama ardently defends his federal health care overhaul. Republican challenger Mitt Romney adamantly opposes it. But this coming week, when

The Supreme Court has just issued a landmark 7-2 ruling that reaffirms the rights of nonunion employees to opt out of paying for union political activism. The case stems from a lawsuit filed by eight California civil servants, who received

Compelling objecting employees to fund political speech for government unions violates the First Amendment even if you later refund that money to those employees, the Supreme Court held in Knox v. SEIU, a case that is a major blow to

Members of the left, panicked that President Obama is not acting fast enough to regulate campaign financing, have issued shrill warnings about his slowness to politicize the Federal Election Commission. The FEC has five commissioners, three of whom are Republicans, and

Press release from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (AP story below): Washington, DC (June 21, 2012) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 today, siding with nonmember California state employees challenging a Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

President Obama’s improper exercise of executive privilege today to protect Attorney General Eric Holder on Fast and Furious is the latest frightening entry in a week-long pattern of presidential centralization of power. Remember when the left labeled George W. Bush

The Barack Obama re-election campaign is once again targeting conservative donors – and this time, they’re calling for restrictions on the First Amendment to do it. In an email titled, “Hell no,” Jim Messina wrote: Something big happened in Richmond

What would you say if a Koch Brothers, right-wing effort was pushed on Americans with the knowing assistance of National Public Radio — and big money was paid to NPR for the effort? Would you say that this is an