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Race and gender hustlers have done an excellent job over the years of convincing minorities that only government officials who share their countenance and culture will treat them fairly.
For example, the idea that a white police officer might be just as inclined as a black officer to treat a black citizen with dignity and respect is foreign to them. And the idea that [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of  Justice John Paul Stevens:
In making his choice, aides said the president looked for someone with not only a top legal mind but also the ability to bring people of differing views [...]

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Declan McCullagh writing for CNET News says that in spite of being one of the most liberal Justices on the court, John Paul Stevens is the author of arguably the most important pro-business/anti-tax opinion of the e-commerce age:
Amazon.com, Newegg.com, Overstock.com, and other major Internet retailers can trace much of their growth in the last decade [...]

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A fellow named Bret Michael Dykes in article written for Yahoo news makes much of the fact that a majority of Americans are opposed to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Citizens United:
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that the vast majority of Americans are vehemently opposed to a recent Supreme Court ruling that [...]

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The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto spoke with First Amendment God Floyd Abrams a few days ago about the Citizens United decision banning bans on corporate political speech:
“Here is a very committed, very conservative entity that does a film attacking then-Sen. Hillary Clinton when she seemed likely to be nominated for president by the Democratic Party,” Mr. Abrams says. “I ask [...]

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Last night President Obama did something I have not seen a President do before in a State of the Union address. He reprimanded the Supreme Court, a co-equal branch of the federal government, for handing down a decision (Citizens United) with which he personally disagrees:
Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign [...]

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CNN reports that the United States Senate concluded their advice and consent role and confirmed President Obama’s appointment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court:
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who rose from the housing projects of the Bronx to the top of the legal profession, made history Thursday when the Senate confirmed her to become the [...]

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing begins today before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Although she has been on the Second Circuit bench for 12 years, she has written the majority opinion in only one significant tax case. The case is Knight (Rudkin) v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue  and it was appealed to the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Roberts writing for the Court [...]

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