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Court rejects net neutrality, again
The DC Court of Appeals has unanimously rejected the Obama administration’s second effort to impose network neutrality. (It unanimously rejected their first effort in 2010.) This is a good thing. In...
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Let freedom ring
A big win for free speech in the Ninth Circuit, which has found that First Amendment protection is not limited to members of the institutional press.
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Obama overreach likely to cost him
A year ago, President Obama’s massive overreach — claiming that the presidential recess appointment power could be used at essentially any time at all — resulted in him losing the recess appointment...
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You can’t talk about the Bible; this is school!
Fox News reports: The parents of a 6-year-old girl said their daughter was humiliated when a teacher interrupted the child’s one-minute speech and told her to sit down because she’s “not allowed to...
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Selective law enforcement is tyranny
If your gun stunt pleases the powers-that-be, you can break the law. Witness David Gregory. But, if your gun stunt angers the powers-that-be, you go to jail for four months and then serve two years...
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Error and cover-up
Perjury is so common from this administration it hardly even seems notable any more. But let’s note it anyway: After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million...
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DOJ defends election fraud
The Obama administration, yet again, is taking steps to defend election fraud: Justice Department lawyer Bradley Heard was in court today trying to stop Kansas from ensuring that only citizens register...
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Hobby Lobby wins
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 in favor of Hobby Lobby (and two other companies), ordering that HHS cannot force their owners to violate their religious beliefs and pay for abortifacients. The opinion...
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I scoff at the rule of law!
Reuters reports: White House will consider whether president can act on his own to mitigate effect of Supreme Court contraception ruling
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Shocking
A White House panel appointed to approve President Obama’s domestic spying program has approved President Obama’s domestic spying program.
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Sonia Sotomayor is bad at logic
Justice Sonia Sotomayor (joined by Justices Ginsberg and Kagan), is upset with the rest of the rest of the Supreme Court: Those who are bound by our decisions usually believe they can take us at our...
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LightSquared
The LightSquared debacle still isn’t quite over; the remains of the politically connected company are now suing the government over its denial of a permit to operate. Since I was strongly opposed to...
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New Jersey
The state that doesn’t understand the difference between good guys and bad guys: The same judge and prosecutor who let professional football star Ray Rice avoid a trial after beating his wife...
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Burglary is for amateurs
I’ve always wondered why Richard Nixon’s goons bothered to burglarize the Democratic party headquarters. Why didn’t he just open a phony investigation and seize the documents? That’s been accepted...
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OMG
AP reports: The IRS says it has lost emails from five more workers who are part of congressional investigations into the treatment of conservative groups that applied for tax exempt status. . . The...
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Good news, bad news
The good news is the Washington Supreme Court has upheld the Constitutional principle of the presumption of innocence in rape cases. The bad news is it wasn’t unanimous. Three of nine justices were...
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Don’t you dare return a not guilty verdict
The latest incident in the Obama administration’s war on due process: In a federal probe of Princeton University, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights faulted the Ivy League university...
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“Naked power grab”
That’s how NYT op-ed writer Linda Greenhouse describes the outrage of the Supreme Court granting review of a lower court ruling: This is a naked power grab by conservative justices who two years ago...
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DOJ admits lying to appeals court
Ars Technica reports: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a remarkable letter (PDF) this morning in which the Department of Justice admits its lawyer misled a panel of judges during oral...
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Maryland buys environmentalist sermons
The Washington Post reports: The news was as welcome to the group of Prince George’s County pastors as a plague of locusts: Maryland’s controversial “stormwater remediation fee” applied to all property...
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