From humble beginnings, Sandra Day O'Connor made her way to the U.S. Supreme Court. [T]he nation's first female Supreme Court justice shared her experiences with a packed amphitheater at Chautauqua Institution.
With Kagan's confirmation imminent, either the NRA's political influence is not as powerful as it once was or it is holding back punches in the Supreme Court.
Referring to the disarming of blacks during the post-Reconstruction era, Thomas wrote: "It was the 'duty' of white citizen 'patrols to search negro houses and other suspected places for firearms.' If they found any firearms, the patrols were to take the offending slave or free black 'to the nearest justice of the peace' whereupon he would be 'severely punished.' " Never again, Thomas says. Read more »
It’s hard to imagine a greater victory for the conservative legal movement than the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which overturned D.C.’s ban on handguns. Not only did the Court definitively settle the long-contested question of whether the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and bear arms, but it did so using the language of “originalism”—the school of thought, long championed by conservatives, that says the Constitution should be read according to its original public meaning.
George Will has fired off a few questions for Elena Kagan. Suppose any of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have the guts to ask them? If they don't, why should we believe them when the say we need to elect more Republicans to the Senate?
James Taranto explains that the notes in the Kagan memos illustrate "why curbs on political speech are pernicious." Kagan wrote on a memo in reference to the the ban on soft-money, "affects Repubs, not Dems."
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