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 [...]
I am at a loss as to what to write about. Its not that there is nothing going on, but instead that this administration and Congress are doing so much…and doing it so poorly. After watching Pelosi say that giving out welfare is the best job creator out there, I have to agree with one [...]
There are certainly two camps on how to interpret the constitution. There is the conservative literal interpretation and then there is the more liberal activist idea of interpretation. Kagan certainly falls into the latter despite her refusal to acknowledge that she understands what the term ‘legal progressive’ means (yesterday’s hearing). Even if all you have [...]
The confirmation hearing for Elena Kagan began yesterday. I have written a couple of posts on her and my belief that she should not be confirmed. Here is one. And the Second. You are welcome to read those posts again as they are pretty revealing, but if you do not want to you here is [...]