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Supreme Court message to Sotomayor
The firemens' case is now closed, Promotional test's reimposed; The High Court's recision Of this one decision Tells Sotomayor she'll get hosed. News Short n' Sweet by JFD8 http://twitter.com/JFD8
Posted to The Breakfast Table by JD8 on June 29, 2009
in china they prosecute judges for criminal offenses
BEIJING, March 12 -- China's top judge Wang Shengjun said on Tuesday that the Supreme People's Court will ''improve its education of work ethics'' for judges in a bid to weed out judicial corruption. Wang said judicial corruption has seriously damaged the credibility of the country's judicial system and led to ''very bad'' social ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by KayASieverding on March 15, 2009
The Judiciary in America has always been untrustworthy
At the outset understand that I am a solid upper middle class citizen who has not been a ''victim'' of the woefully mismanaged system of jurisprudence in America but I have seen countless examples of the dishonest judges that are in the majority of our country. When the writing of our constitution occurred the idea was not ''separate but ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by pilotjets on March 1, 2009
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
Correction of E. Bazelon & J. Resnik Distortion of US Const.
I am responding to an article by E. Bazelon & J. Resnik, reluctantly. I say reluctantly because I find it disturbing to have to correct a foreigner on their own country's culture, much less politics. The aforementioned individuals made the extraordinary claim that ''Obama should look when he makes his first appointments to the bench''. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by rgates1 on December 23, 2008
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
Guns don't kill people...
The phrase ''Gun's don't kill people, People kill people.'' is often used by those who believe that the 2nd amendment should allow them unlimited access to any and every firearm they can afford. They use this argument to make the point that a weapon is a tool, and since we don't restrict the use or sale of shovels, or hammers, or knives etc., ...
Posted to The Breakfast Table by AJIntrocaso on June 26, 2008
Swinging with Passion Makes for Bad Case Law
Justice Anthony Kennedy is a passionate man. He was a passionate judge and now je is a passionate Justice. But while one may want zealousness in one’s representation in the legal arena, passion in deciding law is dangerous, if not outright foolishness. Passions are swayed. Passions are fired up. Passions are capricious. On April 18, 2007, Ms. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by IMKessel on June 20, 2008
For those opposing gay marriage...
Some important points for those of you who oppose gay marriage: 1) This is not about religion. California's decision to permit gay marriages does not mean gay people are getting married in your church. Your church has every right to continue to prohibit gays from getting married. This is about the government granting gay couples rights such as ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by voxpop78 on June 18, 2008
Is this what Scalia is thinking?
One potential effect that has not been considered is the effect of detention on detainees who were innocent and maybe not even predisposed to anti-US sentiments, or at least to act on them. Suppose there was such a man in GTMO (not a particularly testing thought experiment). Suppose that then through a writ of Habeas Corpus, this man gets ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by outsider88 on June 13, 2008

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