Category: Supreme Court

Politics Changes How Americans View the Supreme Court

August 27, 2010 by ZacKester

"Although the ideological makeup of the court is practically the same, Democrats have a more favorable view than they did during the Bush years, and Republican views have plunged" [pdf].

Kagan Nomination a Test for NRA

August 2, 2010 by kphillips

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. 

Who Ever Said the Supreme Court is Not Political?

July 7, 2010 by ZacKester

Justice Kennedy, who turns 74 this month, has told relatives and friends he plans to stay on the high court for at least three more years - through the end of Obama's first term, sources said.

"NRA Shoots Down Approval Of Kagan Confirmation"

July 1, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"The National Rifle Association is opposing Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court and warning senators that it will take their votes into account when considering endorsing their re-election." Now if NRA would also quit selling free speech out on DISCLOSE . . . .

"In Clarence Thomas's gun rights opinion, race plays a major role"

June 30, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

Quoting Justice Thomas, Courtland Milloy writes:

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 »

"Sotomayor targets guns now"

June 30, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"Perhaps the most startling aspect of the Supreme Court opinions in McDonald v. Chicago was the dissenters' assault on District of Columbia v. Heller. Not only did Justice Stephen G. Breyer vote against extending the Second Amendment to state and local governments, he also argued forcefully and at length for overturning Heller and, therefore, for turning the Second Amendment into a practical nullity. Read more »

"Kagan’s Abortion Distortion"

June 29, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"How the Supreme Court nominee manipulated the statement of a medical organization to protect partial-birth abortion."

Conservatives vs. Libertarians on the Supreme Court

June 29, 2010 by J. Neeley

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.

"The Second Amendment, Incorporated"

June 29, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"Yesterday's high court ruling was the correct one -- but also troubling."