Judicial Issues

Thus says the 9th Circuit panel of three judges who overturned federal district court Judge James Ware’s order to release the Prop 8 trial videotape.  Read more

Could the issue of polygamy derail the same-sex marriage litigation that’s headed to the Supreme Court? It just might.  Read more

It took the Supreme Court until the last week of its annual term, but it finally issued a decision in a pending case involving California’s legislative attempt to protect children from violent video games. In Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the Court by a 7-2 vote struck down a law that restricts the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.  Read more

Q & A – Judicial Activism  Read more

Colorado Action Alert: If you want to contact your Colorado state lawmakers asking them to vote against SB172, click here and go to the bottom of the page, where your zip code or address will identify your state lawmakers. For more information on this bill, keep reading.
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Goodwin Liu, the controversial Berkeley law professor nominated for a spot on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, went before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday for the second time to explain his judicial philosophy and constitutional views.  Read more

As you probably already know, there are plenty of federal lawsuits out there challenging various aspects of the new federal health care law. Some judges have rendered decisions favorable to the law, and a couple judges have ruled against it. The most recent news centered on the federal lawsuit in Florida where Judge Vinson declared the entire law unconstitutional.  Read more

The editorial board of the New York Times can be relied on to advance outlandish claims against conservatives on most days, and they’ve risen to the occasion once again with their latest criticism of the recent judicial opinion by Judge Roger Vinson in the health care lawsuit brought by 26 states.  Read more

By now everyone’s read or heard about the grisly discovery in Philadelphia of the “house of horrors” run by abortionist Kermit Gosnell. So far 8 murder charges are pending. What has shocked many people is the news that apparently nobody has been inspecting abortion clinics in Pennsylvania for a very long time. According to the grand jury report:  Read more

The abortion-subsidizing health-care reform law known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law earlier this year by President Obama, suffered its first major setback this week via a federal district court decision involving a suit brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Judge Henry Hudson found the “individual mandate” provision of the health-care law unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause (Art. I, Sec. 8, clause 3). For more explanation on the “individual mandate” see here and here. The Virginia decision can be found here.  Read more