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  • Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake

    Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009

  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

  • Great Review of Some Important Books . . .

    . . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Error about Supreme Court Building Motto

    The actual phrase etched on the facade of the U.S. Supreme Court building is ''Equal Justice Under Law,'' not ''Equal Justice for All,'' as written by the authors. While this is a minor point in the context of the entire article, these two phrases are not synonymous, in my view. The actual etched phrase necessarily is more circumscribed a ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by bwilsonfan on July 10, 2008

  • Government abuse of power

    South Dakotas law relating to doctor patient communication and abortion: This is just another method for people using and abusing government power. They attempt to control others and legislate morality by forcing their beliefs (usually based on their religion) upon all of society. Their goal is to limit freedom and force conformity with their ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by den99md on July 4, 2008

  • Not quite correct

    It seems that ''Telling Doctors What to Think'' is somewhat misleading about exactly what the 8th circuit did. From my reading of the ruling the 8th circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against the law, but that Planned Parenthood's case against the law will continue in the lower court. This means that while the law will go into effect, ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by zosima on July 3, 2008

  • Is recognizing equal protection a "revolution"

    The branches of the government are meant to do different things. The legislative is supposed to consider policy at length, to call in the experts and interested parties and finally to enact national policy. The executive is supposed to execute the policies enacted by the legislature. And the judicial has the one-by-one job of dealing with ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Issywise on June 20, 2008