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10.15.2009 3:02 pm

Buying free speech

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Re/ Naysayers, Post 10/13/09

How nice that the insurance industry will be able to purchase all the “free speech” it wants in attacking health insurance reform. In the meantime, our Supreme Court is trying to decide whether corporations should be able…

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10.08.2009 4:53 pm

Post is blaming the liberal judges?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I wonder which liberal editorial writer at the PD will take a hit on his/her editorial regarding music royalties from radio broadcasts. The reference to 1940 federal appellate court judges as not understanding new technology implies that judicial decisions were…

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07.30.2009 6:50 pm

Questioning judicial nominees is the right thing to do

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

 
It appears that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has issued a warning to the GOP that they better vote for Justice Sotomayor for Supreme Court or face a backlash.  I think the facts should be reviewed a little bit here…
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07.28.2009 5:09 pm

Sotomayor and statistics

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In a recent letter to the editor, a reader opined the questionable “fact” that as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has had 60 percent of her rulings overturned by the Supreme…

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07.03.2009 5:37 pm

Supreme Court puts school districts on notice

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling put school districts on notice that if it failed to reasonably address the special needs of students, parents could opt to have those needs met at a  private institution all at the school district’s expense. …

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06.24.2009 4:33 pm

The importance of the rule of law

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Apparently a lot of people don’t understand the theory of “Rule of Law, not Rule of Man,” and why it’s so important to this country.

 

Let’s try to explain it this way: in baseball, the hitter gets 3 strikes before he’s…

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06.12.2009 5:01 pm

Be angry if you must, but be truthful, too

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I laughed out loud at Amanda Schmitt’s contention in her letter (”Controversy of Race”, June 9) that “there are many more qualified people who could have and should have been nominated” to the Supreme Court, and that “Ms. Sotomayor’s nomination…

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06.02.2009 5:59 pm

Is this how we want our Supreme Court installed?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Boy our politicians don’t care who knows how they feel. They call the new Supreme Court candidate racially wrong since  she was picked. Now they’re going to quit calling her that because it may hurt their elction hopes..It hasn’t been proven…
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06.02.2009 5:53 pm

Taking down a career based on one (out of context) sentence

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The right-wing mouths like Limbaugh, who has gotten filthy rich spouting hate, are condemning the President’s Supreme Court choice for one sentence out of years of speeches and writings, a sentence that she modified further into the same speech. The…

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07.05.2008 10:28 am

Gun laws don’t proetct law-abiding citizens; guns do

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 Gun laws state-wide protect citizens from violence, according to Rod Blagojevich after the US Supreme Court’s decision striking down DC’s gun ban laws.  “Rose Man” Lee Nixon last week, as Blagojevich spoke, was currently lying in state at Lane Mortuary…

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