I wanted to briefly highlight a Supreme Court case this morning…Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn. The Court reversed the Ninth Circuit Court ruling that would end the Arizona Tuition Tax Credit Program 5-4. In this case, Kennedy, who is usually the swing vote on the Court, sided correctly. Of course we would not have [...]
I came out of the store the other night and someone had left a basket right behind my car. As I was walking up I looked through the basket to the cart return area in the parking lot not 30 feet away. I know not a big deal, but I could not help but wonder [...]
“Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, it says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, it doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf” Obama gives this description of how the Warren Court saw the Constitution adding [...]
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention… To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. – Thurgood Marshall (May 6, 1987) This quote from an activist judge, a [...]
I am pretty busy this week with other stuff (to include the unexplainable 7 game winning streak by the Stros and my winning streak on my PS3 NCAA football dynasty) so I apologize if my writing has been a bit blah. It seems the same fights are on-going and I am sure they will continue [...]