Tag: Supreme Court

Tea party groups across the country are gearing up for the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling, expected within the next week. Along with them, Republicans are readying their response to fit a number of possible scenarios. After massive push-back this spring

The Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) has initiated a multi-pronged strategy to ensure the re-election of Barack Obama. First, add more voters onto the rolls who are likely to re-elect Obama, whether they are legally eligible or not. And, second,

Artur Davis represented Alabama’s 7th congressional district for eight years as a Democrat. He held party leadership roles and was one the first lawmakers to endorse then-Sen. Barack Obama for president. A lot has changed in four years. Davis has

Yesterday on CNN’s “State of the Union” Senior White House adviser David Plouffe defended President Barack Obama’s decision to halt the deportations of illegal immigrants under 30 years of age. “This is not a political move,” Plouffe said of Obama’s

(AP) GOP on health care: Repeal quickly, replace slowlyBy DAVID ESPOAP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTONCongressional Republicans intend to seek quick repeal of any parts of the health care law that survive a widely anticipated Supreme Court ruling, but don’t plan to push

Despite the gloomy economic news, the Left has been very confident about Obama’s reelection chances. To many on the outer edges of the blog and twitter-spheres, the campaign was merely a formality. Obama, they argued, had a “blue wall” of

Everyone is now waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to hand down its decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the name of the case frequently referred to simply as “Obamacare.” Lawyers argued four issues before the justices who will decide the

Team Obama did everything they could to get the unpopular Obamacare bill passed, even though the president’s party controlled Congress. This included cutting deals with the drug industry which reeked of cronyism, and Democrats insinuating that conservatives and Tea Partiers

President Obama is now trying to get two new judges on America’s second-highest court. Today Obama renominated Caitlin Halligan, who was filibustered last year, and Deputy Solicitor General Sri Srinivasan. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The public school establishment has tried a lot of dirty tricks over the years to stop the spread of charter schools. Charter schools attract many of their students, and siphon away some of the state money attached

On the heels of the conservative movement’s enormous victory in Wisconsin, all eyes will now be focused on the special election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District this Tuesday. This represents another opportunity to elect a principled conservative. Jesse Kelly is a

Maine State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin is viewed by many as one of the frontrunners in the race to succeed retiring Senator Olympia Snowe (R). There are currently five other Republicans and four Democrats running; the primaries are to be held

You can’t sue Secret Service agents if they arrest you for lying to them about antagonistically touching a public official, the Supreme Court held this week in a unanimous decision. Vice President Dick Cheney was at a shopping mall in

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.A professional photographer who refused to take pictures of a gay couple’s commitment ceremony violated state anti-discrimination laws, the New Mexico Court of Appeals has ruled. The court on Thursday agreed with a previous ruling, in which a district

Either the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the question of same-sex marriage, or it will become a constitutional right in the largest state in the nation later this year. In 1993, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled in Baehr v.

It’s constitutional for a city to adopt a new policy that lets you pay 30 times more taxes than your neighbor for the same service, a divided Supreme Court held this week. Indiana law previously allowed cities to impose the

Co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream Ben Cohen is launching a new campaign to help his friends in the Occupy movement. No, he isn’t donating his millions of dollars to charity. He’s going to help distribute rubber stamps which

IThe Supreme Court is the next stop in the battle over the definition of marriage, thanks to a federal appeals court partially striking down a law defending marriage passed by a strong bipartisan majority and signed by President Bill Clinton.

Is the West’s and America’s next–and perhaps most important–ideological war between global governance and national sovereignty?  That is the provocative–and important–question that will be discussed at the “Global Governance vs. National Sovereignty”  conference on June 10 and 11 in Los Angeles,

Tuesday’s recall election in Wisconsin is the culmination of a long political campaign waged by the left to reverse the results of the watershed 2010 election, and to prevent reforms that might be imitated elsewhere. These included: tax cuts for

Ward Churchill’s lawsuit against the University of Colorado for firing him after his comments labeling victims of 9/11 “little Eichmanns” has now proceeded to the Colorado Supreme Court. Churchill says that his comments fall under First Amendment guidelines; essentially, he