Jun 19, 2008 – From the reaction to last week's Supreme Court decision on Guantanamo, you would think the detainees were all going to be trained, … All this outrage builds on the dissent registered by Justice Antonin Scalia. … Critics of this decision are terrified that the courts will have the power to free innocent men.…

Jul 7, 2008 – About a month ago, the California Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, issued a declaratory opinion that Proposition 22, which states … The California Supreme Court issued a declaratory opinion that, in the view of the bare majority, banning same sex couples from marrying … In other words, the California Supreme Court cannot give to the Legislature, what neither it, nor the legislature, has: the power to…

Jul 27, 2008 – Guetzloe has now appealed to the Florida Supreme Court. … Supreme Court seemed clear enough in McIntyre v. … Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.…

Aug 13, 2008 – excruciating phantom limb pain, brought him to Charlie Lynch's medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, Calif., carrying a recommendation from … But the response he says he got from the agency is the response he should have gotten, because under the U.S. … marijuana, as the Supreme Court did in 2005.…

Oct 16, 2008 – Even without the power of the Presidency, a filibuster-proof Senate, and U.S. … Supreme Court appointments under his belt, Obama has already: *  called for a national citizen military force; * sent government … We are subject to same whims, caprices, fears and lusts for power as every other human beings.…

Dec 21, 2008 – Henry's concerns have been proved valid, as the growth of federal power since the adoption of the Constitution in 1787 has often been … Each of these rights protects the power of the people to resist or criticize their government should it overstep its bounds.  … The silencing of dissent is a sure sign of governmental tyranny. …

Jun 7, 2011 – It’s from folks who just the other day were chanting the mantra of “civility.” … Twice, the Pulitzer board has refused to rescind the award despite pleas from Ukrainian groups and a recommendation to do that from … termed “raw judicial power.”…

Jul 9, 2012 – Congratulations to the Supreme Court’s supreme effort to protect their reputation at the expense of the Constitution and the idea … The Supreme Court interprets, yet they are not the final word. … No Supreme Court Justice will do it. No member of Congress will do it, without pressure from We the People.…

Oct 20, 2010 – In 2005, the Supreme Court said the federal government's power to "regulate commerce ... among the several states" extends to the tiniest … "If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause," Justice Clarence Thomas warned in his dissent, "then it can regulate virtually … But despite seven decades of stretching by a Supreme Court eager to accommodate every congressional whim, the Amazing Elastic Commerce…

Aug 12, 2011 – Clause is mandate that individuals enter into contracts with private insurance companies for the purchase of an expensive product from … Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus disagreed in a dissent. ... … only struck down a requirement that nearly all Americans carry health insurance, but he also threw out other provisions ranging from…

Sep 15, 2011 – Nearly every change in domestic national-security policy over the past decade, from airline no-fly lists to the data-mining of telephone … From the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 to the illegal harassment of political opponents during the Nixon administration, wartime … governments have certainly been known to repress dissent and abuse individual rights.…

Aug 3, 2012 – Boycotts of Chick-fil-A, its expulsion from campuses and "Same-Sex Kiss Day" at local outlets are planned. … It was not 10 years ago that the Supreme Court declared that states could no longer outlaw private sexual behavior between consenting … Cathy is not some fascist about to seize power, but a socially conservative businessman.…

Aug 13, 2012 – For part of their project, students from an affluent Denver suburb shared an “updated” Pledge of Allegiance: "I pledge allegiance … which it stands—an imperial power that swept the native inhabitants off their land—one nation under God—because the Supreme Court … The students and I eyed each other, as my mind raced for a way to dissent without being a stiff, Republican scold.…

Aug 23, 2012 – Another difference between the two candidates involves the Supreme Court, where neither would be ideal. … His Supreme Court appointee Sonia Sotomayor signed a dissent concluding that despite the Second Amendment, "the use of arms for private … self-defense does not warrant federal constitutional protection from state regulation."…

Mar 19, 2012 – In 1824 the Supreme Court decision in Gibbons v. … The Corps has usually taken orders directly from Congress, and particularly from those members who have their hands on the agency's … economics, many Corps' projects don't make sense from an environmental perspective.…

Apr 8, 2014 – , is the power to limit our speech. … Because power corrupts, too. … But note how narrow was the decision in this case, and how easily overturned when the appetite for power recovers from this blow for…

Apr 29, 2014 – Supreme Court colleagues for upholding, 6-2, Michigan's right to amend the state Constitution with a prohibition against "preferential … Look, said Sotomayor's dissent: "As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection … From the high court, outrageous assertions take on another character.…

Apr 28, 2014 – That a Supreme Court justice has such a fundamental misunderstanding of the Constitution’s purpose is alarming. … Our rights existed in us from the moment of our creation, and they are inalienable. … Let’s not throw that away just to check off a few items from the progressive bucket list.…

Oct 30, 2012 – "Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same … No longer are we "descended from the same ancestors." … Dissent from the intolerant new orthodoxy and you are a bigot, a hater, a homophobe, an enemy of women's rights.…

Nov 12, 2012 – of interest from other sources. … Yet he is actually not far from each one of us." … to exorcize a demon from "S."…

Nov 6, 2012 – The government has the power to seize your assets for a crime you did not commit. … Police Department work to take Motel Caswell away from its owner, Russ Caswell.The libertarian-leaning legal team Institute for Justice … Supreme Court infamously ruled 5-4 for New London.In a righteous dissent, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that if governments can…

Dec 31, 2012 – Incensed and undeterred by facts, liberals attempted to remove a conservative state supreme court justice from the bench.   … Rest in Peace, Andrew:   (2) The US Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare.   … UPDATE - Feel free to concur with, or dissent from, these two lists.  Are they ordered properly?  …

May 24, 2014 – The US Supreme Court affirmed the right recently of townships to say a public prayer before a local meeting, which seems rather like … This confusion extends from prayer at local meetings – which a dissenting minority of the US Supreme Court still seems to be confused … And that constitutes our best dissent to the Supreme Court’s recently vocal minority, who would prefer to update Madison and Jefferson…

Jul 7, 2014 – Though I’m mildly pleased that the Supreme Court is not quite ready to take gasoline to both the First Amendment and the Religious … Supreme Court justices are still willing to give the U.S. … And that’s the prism through which we must interpret the parade of hyperbolic horribles in her scathing Hobby Lobby dissent.…

Jul 17, 2014 – governmental behavior that does not directly interfere with constitutionally protected freedoms, but rather tends to deter folks from … The government's goal, and its limited success, was to deter dissent without actually interfering with it. … Eventually, when this was exposed as part of a huge government plot to stifle dissent, known as COINTELPRO, the government stopped…