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US Supreme Court on Religion and Marriage

By ⋅ June 16, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

We live in a very interesting time—a time when the very moral foundation of this country is being challenged.  The general American feeling of “live and let live” has come directly up against a culture and morality that would have been foreign to the founders—and those very founders are being trotted out as accepting and [...]

If The Baby Can Feel Pain…

By ⋅ April 7, 2010 ⋅ One comment

North Dakota has led the way in terms of chipping away at abortion rights.  Along with Mississippi and other Bible Belt states, North Dakota has sought time and again to test the Supreme Courts ruling that has allowed women in the United States to kill their unborn children at any stage of their pregnancies.

Sotomayor: Ratings and Tactics

By ⋅ July 13, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Rewind the clock back a few years and recall the last change of a Supreme Court Justice.  Then President George W. Bush nominated one of his friends—Harriet Miers—to the bench with problems on both sides of the aisle. Judge Sotomayor—a judge with a much longer record in jurisprudence and who is about to enter the [...]

When Judges Become Legislators

By ⋅ June 26, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

Back when we were having the debate over Capital Punishment one of the areas that always comes up is whether it is just, and the fact that God has a bunch of rules in the Old Testament that have, as their sentence, death. At that point, I hadn’t even realized that up until yesterday six [...]

Continuing the Court Discussion

By ⋅ September 27, 2004 ⋅ One comment

Strangecloud posed a very interesting dilemma to my idea in the last post.  His point was that Judicial Review was put into place as part of checks and balances in the government.  If I remember my history correctly, Judicial Review was actually a creation of a certain Supreme Court (I want to say Marshall, but [...]

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