My guess is Mr Obama will explain this at his next news conference. ====== WSJ 11/19/2016 The Obama Administration’s executive overreach received another rebuke on Wednesday, this time from a federal court in Texas. In National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Perez, Judge Sam Cummings granted a motion for summary judgment and rejected the Labor Department’s attempt to stack another deck for unions. The... Read more
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Another Judge Is Unpersuaded
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, US CourtsReign In the Prosecutors!
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | Law, Losing Freedom, The Left, US Constitution, US CourtsIf the targets of the prosecutors were leftists, or Democrats, I’m afraid there would have been a lynching long ago. ====== WSJ 8/19/2016 We wish we could stop writing about Wisconsin’s abusive prosecutors, but conservatives in the state are still fighting to have their rights vindicated in court. Readers are familiar with the secret John Doe probe by Democratic prosecutors that targeted conservative groups,... Read more
Why Checks & Balances?
April 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Losing Freedom, Obama, The Left, US CourtsNice example of the Executive Branch not doing their homework and blaming the Judicial for ‘not playing nice’. Also nice example of how the Obama wing of the Democrat party like to operate. They want to write, interpret, enforce and adjudicate everything. ========== WSJ 4/9/2016 Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and his media bodyguards are still pouting over his courtroom defeat in the MetLife... Read more
The Court Needs Balance
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Obama, US CourtsVery well said. ===== WSJ 2/21/2016 The president has every right to nominate a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia. He shouldn’t, but he has the right by law and precedent. The reasons he shouldn’t spring from facts particular to the moment and having to do with what Justice Scalia symbolized. In a 50/50 country, one that suffers deep ideological divisions and is constantly... Read more
Great Democrat Judicial Hits
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, US CourtsAh, how soon we forget. === WSJ 2/21/2015 Senate Democrats haven’t made much progress shaming Republicans into yielding on President Obama’s upcoming Supreme Court nominee, and no wonder. As much as they’re trying, they can’t erase their own abusive history of double and sometimes triple standards in confirmation politics. Earlier this week we chronicled New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s faked alibi... Read more
