Results for: dissent from supreme power
Projecting Power and ‘Debasing Norms’
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2018/09/25/projecting-power-and-debasing-norms-n2522104
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2018/09/25/projecting-power-and-debasing-norms-n2522104
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It’s part of what distinguishes us from authoritarian societies, where dissent is forbidden,” Mrs. Clinton writes. … Far from healing America’s racial divisions, the Obama administration made them much worse. … Foundation, much of it coming from foreign sources that benefited from Mrs.…
Here's Susan Collins' Speech Announcing Support For Kavanaugh. She Also Subtlety Ripped Democrats For Overreaching
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/10/06/heres-sus…anaughand-quietly-ripped-democrats-for-overreaching-n2526093
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/10/06/heres-sus…anaughand-quietly-ripped-democrats-for-overreaching-n2526093
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Collins faced enormous pressure from everyone on her vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. … In a dissent in Seven-Sky v. … Many experts have said his dissent informed Justice Roberts’ opinion upholding the ACA at the Supreme Court. …
Trump Preempts Politicized Prosecutors
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2022/11/09/trump-preempts-politicized-prosecutors-n2615675
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2022/11/09/trump-preempts-politicized-prosecutors-n2615675
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Democrats are “persecuting their political opponents and silencing dissent,” Trump declared to the immense Ohio crowd. … The Supreme Court shockingly allows a runaway county prosecution to interrogate Sen. … Trump, the president who got us out of wars and made the world a safer place, was supposedly harboring nuclear codes from his time…
A Judge Accepts the Biden Administration's Dubious Argument for Banning Gun Possession by Marijuana Users
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2022/11/09/a-jud…or-daring-to-exercise-their-second-amendment-rights-n2615655
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2022/11/09/a-jud…or-daring-to-exercise-their-second-amendment-rights-n2615655
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That is the constitutional test the Supreme Court has said gun control laws must pass. … But as Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett pointed out in a 2019 dissent as a judge on the U.S. … "Legislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns," Barrett wrote.…
The 3rd Circuit Considers Whether Nonviolent Crimes Justify the Loss of Second Amendment Rights
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2023/01/11/the-3…iction-bryan-range-is-no-longer-allowed-to-own-guns-n2618129
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2023/01/11/the-3…iction-bryan-range-is-no-longer-allowed-to-own-guns-n2618129
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That take jibes with a 2019 dissent that Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote as a judge on the U.S. … "Legislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns," she said. … "But that power extends only to people who are (SET ITAL) dangerous.…
Non-Competes Ban is Yet Another Sign of FTC Mission Creep
https://townhall.com/columnists/youngvoicescontributors/2023…mpetes-ban-is-yet-another-sign-of-ftc-mission-creep-n2618852
https://townhall.com/columnists/youngvoicescontributors/2023…mpetes-ban-is-yet-another-sign-of-ftc-mission-creep-n2618852
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But it should come as no surprise from Biden’s administration. … Many described this as a shift away from the consumer welfare standard. … The Commission has rejected the idea of limiting power and regulatory reach.…
Appointment of New Ruthless Police Chief Will Not Crush Iran's Protesters
https://townhall.com/columnists/struanstevenson/2023/02/07/a…thless-police-chief-will-not-crush-irans-protesters-n2619232
https://townhall.com/columnists/struanstevenson/2023/02/07/a…thless-police-chief-will-not-crush-irans-protesters-n2619232
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Dreading the downfall of his theocratic regime, Iran’s Supreme Leader – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has pressed the panic button. … His ruthlessness and steadfast dedication to the Supreme Leader saw him rise rapidly through the ranks during the Iran-Iraq war. … In his last months in power, the Shah rapidly replaced his ministers, tried curfews and martial laws, and opened fire on protesters…
Dislodging a Dictatorship
https://townhall.com/columnists/struanstevenson/2024/04/09/dislodging-a-dictatorship-n2637511
https://townhall.com/columnists/struanstevenson/2024/04/09/dislodging-a-dictatorship-n2637511
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Seventy-five million Iranians are oppressed by the ageing and increasingly psychotic Supreme Leader - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who wields … ultimate power together with his puppet president Ebrahim Raisi- dubbed ‘The Butcher of Tehran’ due to his blood-soaked background … The IRGC controls more than 70% of the Iranian economy, pays no tax and is answerable only to the Supreme Leader.…
Trump’s Freedom of Speech Matters Too
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This fundamental principle lies at the heart of the ongoing case of Donald Trump vs the United States before the United States Supreme … This is not merely a legal technicality but a fundamental issue concerning the balance of power and the preservation of our American … Yet, Trump critics and those on the left are continuing their pursuits to stifle dissent and criminalize any viewpoints opposed to…
America’s Largest Corporations Are Contributing to Our Censorship Problem
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeremytedesco/2024/02/14/ame…orations-are-contributing-to-our-censorship-problem-n2635184
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeremytedesco/2024/02/14/ame…orations-are-contributing-to-our-censorship-problem-n2635184
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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. … Alarming as it is, this story is far from isolated. … Supreme Court. Both concern this destructive nexus of government and corporate power. In National Rifle Association v.…
Trump’s Legal Struggle Imperils Free Speech
https://townhall.com/columnists/shaunmccutcheon/2024/02/14/trumps-legal-struggle-imperils-free-speech-n2635215
https://townhall.com/columnists/shaunmccutcheon/2024/02/14/trumps-legal-struggle-imperils-free-speech-n2635215
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Last week, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a ridiculous ruling from Colorado’s top court that deemed Trump … In a functioning Constitutional Republic, the power to remove elected officials should ultimately lie with the voters. … The Supreme Court's decision to fast-track this case speaks volumes about its significance in 2024 and beyond.…
Constitutional Blunder
https://townhall.com/columnists/mariodiaz/2008/01/22/constitutional_blunder
https://townhall.com/columnists/mariodiaz/2008/01/22/constitutional_blunder
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quintessential example of judicial activism, and it has to be the greatest exercise of (to use Justice White’s phrase) “raw judicial power … In any other case, the Supreme Court’s “jurisdiction” might have ended there, answering the question that was actually presented to … And Justice ultimately comes from God’s hands, not the Supreme Court’s.
[1] Roe v.…
Upskirt Invasions, Urinary Usurpations
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2008/03/16/upskirt_invasions,_urinary_usurpations
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2008/03/16/upskirt_invasions,_urinary_usurpations
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So Americans have come to expect some degree of freedom from government prying — and government protection from private snoops as well … And on Thursday, the issue was decided by the state’s Supreme Court. … It is demonstrated criminal behavior that should warrant the intrusions of police power. Not mere generalized suspicion.…
Justice Ends the Holiday
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2008/04/17/justice_ends_the_holiday
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2008/04/17/justice_ends_the_holiday
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Supreme Court ruled with a 7-2 decision Wednesday. … There were three concurring opinions, and one dissent, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and joined by Justice David Souter. … In 2005, the British medical journal The Lancet reported that blood samples taken from executed prisoners showed concentrations of…
Questions for McCain
https://townhall.com/columnists/greggjackson/2008/05/29/questions_for_mccain
https://townhall.com/columnists/greggjackson/2008/05/29/questions_for_mccain
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The California Supreme Court recently postulated that limiting marriage between one man and one woman was unconstitutional. … Why are you undermining California Supreme Court Justice Baxter's dissent, in which he forcefully and compellingly defended constitutional … You have also proposed a 66% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (from 2005 levels of 5.8 billion metric tons).…
Justice Kennedy: American Idle
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2008/06/18/justice_kennedy_american_idle
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2008/06/18/justice_kennedy_american_idle
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Such power is committed to the executive as part of the commander in chief's power, and thus implicitly denied to the judiciary, just … as is the power to declare war is unilaterally committed to Congress. … That may be the only place left that is safe from Justice Kennedy.…
The Most Fearsome Power
https://townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/2008/06/17/the_most_fearsome_power
https://townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/2008/06/17/the_most_fearsome_power
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WASHINGTON -- The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas … As such, the Supreme Court's ruling only begins marking a boundary against government's otherwise boundless power to detain people … No state power is more fearsome than the power to imprison.…
Iran Sacrifices its Future
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2010/01/13/iran_sacrifices_its_future
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2010/01/13/iran_sacrifices_its_future
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But today let's give the devil/grand dragon/Supreme Leader his due. … further study, or maybe from society in general. … The American method of suppressing dissent is more subtle, and effective.…
Repeal the 17th Amendment
https://townhall.com/columnists/tonyblankley/2010/01/27/repeal_the_17th_amendment
https://townhall.com/columnists/tonyblankley/2010/01/27/repeal_the_17th_amendment
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The nature of our government is largely a product of political power being applied to lawmakers and executors. The U.S. … Chicago); continuing in 1947 with Justice Hugo Black's famous dissent in Adamson v. … Only by changing the architecture of power will we change the shape and exercise of power.…
Fight the Power
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2010/02/24/fight_the_power
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2010/02/24/fight_the_power
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When Congress sought to stop people from drinking, it recognized that amending the Constitution was the only legitimate route. … Likewise, one searches the Constitution in vain for the power to create a national board of censors charged with regulating the content … Justice Clarence Thomas highlighted this problem in his dissent from the 2005 Supreme Court decision that upheld the federal government's…
Liberal Ninth Circuit Praises Limited Government
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2010/03/21/liberal_ninth_circuit_praises_limited_government
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2010/03/21/liberal_ninth_circuit_praises_limited_government
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The Supreme Court reversed that decision
on a technicality, and recently, the Ninth Circuit got to try
again. … the state, but from a “higher power” beyond the
state. … somewhere
higher than the state—from the “Creator,” the “Supreme Judge,” and
“Nature’s God.”…
No (Political) Experience Required
https://townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/2010/04/15/no_political_experience_required
https://townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/2010/04/15/no_political_experience_required
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By 1939, the Supreme Court had been embroiled in political controversy for half a decade. … Hugo Black had been a senator from Alabama. … Bill Clinton seriously considered four prominent politicians for Supreme Court nominations -- New York Gov.…
Constitutionally Dangerous
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2010/05/19/constitutionally_dangerous
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2010/05/19/constitutionally_dangerous
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In upholding that policy on Monday, the Supreme Court not only blessed yet another use of psychiatry to escape the safeguards of our … criminal justice system by disguising punishment as treatment -- it also encouraged Congress to pile one dubious assertion of power … ' any enumerated power."…
Unlike Chief Justice Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett Won’t Politicize Healthcare
https://townhall.com/columnists/staterepjakehoffman/2020/09…oberts-amy-coney-barrett-wont-politicize-healthcare-n2577169
https://townhall.com/columnists/staterepjakehoffman/2020/09…oberts-amy-coney-barrett-wont-politicize-healthcare-n2577169
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Supreme Court. … There is nothing in the Constitution that gives such power to the federal government. … In a 2017 Notre Dame Law Journal article, Judge Barrett quotes from Justice Scalia’s dissent in the ACA case.…
What is The Antidote to ‘Wokeness’?
https://townhall.com/columnists/dugganflanakin/2020/10/15/what-is-the-antidote-to-wokeness-n2578092
https://townhall.com/columnists/dugganflanakin/2020/10/15/what-is-the-antidote-to-wokeness-n2578092
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Success comes from slowly subverting the culture rather than destroying it. … Enforcement of top-down government requires tyrannical control, and tremendous energy, to impose a Woke supremacy from which there … can be no dissent or even debate.…