Tag Archives: Citizens United
A Question of Lawful Authority
Baseball season gets underway this week, a welcome distraction from the political battles in Washington.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is warring over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. The Republicans say he’s a stellar nominee, a judicial umpire who calls balls and strikes as he sees them. Democrats, led by New York’s Charles Schumer, however, say the judge is a creature of “special interests” who would slide into a base with spikes up and who deserves to be filibustered.
Who are those “special interests” you might ask? Well, they would be anyone who disagrees with progressives, …
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Tagged Charles Schumer, Citizens United, Hobby Lobby, Little Sisters of the Poor, Nancy Pelosi, Neil Gorsuch, Obergefell v. Hodges, Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS
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Scalia the Bold Leader for Originalism
The importance of Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away this past weekend, is based not just in what he said in his U.S. Supreme Court opinions, but how he said it. As the life and work of Justice Scalia are honored and remembered, conservatives would do well to be grateful for his bold leadership on behalf of the originalist moorings of constitutional jurisprudence.
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Tagged Antonin Scalia, Citizens United, Clarence Thomas, McIntryre v. Ohio Election Commission, Obergefell v. Hodges, U.S. v. Jones
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