Legal
MORNING LINKS — apparently, Monday’s also a snowy day ITEM: I went to bed with rain falling outside and woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground, with more falling. And apparently we could get more on Friday Morning (May 1st). ITEM: For about two years before things collapsed, my co-blogger, Bruce [...]
[Here are Wednesday's links as well] MORNING LINKS ITEM: USA Today has an outstanding article debunking the various myths about the Columbine shooters who killed just over a dozen of their fellow students 10 years ago: They weren’t goths or loners. The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver’s Columbine High [...]
AFTERNOON LINKS! Yes, there are actual afternoon links! ITEM: Maybe it’s because he paid all his taxes — actor Kal Penn (of the “House” TV series and the “Harold and Kumar” movies) joins the White House staff. ITEM: President Obama visits Baghdad. Good for him, and I mean that in all sincerity. My son Jon [...]
As expected the US Supreme court has declined to further entertain the “Donofrio v. Wells” case, which sought to have the court better define the portion of Article 1 of the US Constitution that defines the requirement for the President to be a “Natural Born Citizen”. From Legal Line News: Although Donofrio concedes Obama was [...]
Continue reading about Supreme Court Declines Natural Born Citizen Case
Word is that tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will discuss in private a suit brought by Leo Donofrio, that asks a very interesting and possibly explosive question. What does it mean to be a “Natural Born Citizen”? This is of crucial importance, because the US Constitution clearly states that in order to run for President, [...]
Continue reading about Who Is A Natural Born Citizen? – Supreme Court To Discuss Tomorrow
When the AP published a bundle of her personal information online shortly after her appointment as the Republican VP pick, there were bound to be ramifications. Some of that information helped motivate the delinquent son of a Memphis TN Democrat Congressman to hack Palin’s personal email account. Sadly for this troubled little dweeb he has [...]
Frank J. and Harvey (at IMAO) have all the breaking news. First the Supreme Court decision itself: JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. We consider whether a District of Columbia prohibition on the possession of usable handguns in the home violates the Second Amendment to the Constitution. We turn first to the meaning [...]
Continue reading about The Heller decision and its aftermath
The good news is that Google has taken me off their badware list (as of May 1st), though it took them over a week to do so (along with multiple review requests and a posting at the Google Webmaster groups). You can see quite clearly the impact of this blog having the label of doom [...]
My step-son Aaron sent me this link about how Edwin Soto used Google Maps on the fly in traffic court to beat a traffic ticket: The officer stated the street I was on was a one way westbound street and I was turning onto an avenue that was at a two way street separated by [...]
Maybe people will hold up cigarette lighters during moving parts of oral argument. – comment posted at the Volokh Conspiracy Legal geeks everywhere are salivating over the fact that the US Supreme Court is doing what is in effect a major review of the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution (“A well regulated Militia, being [...]