Patriot Room Radio #53: Agnostic Barry bail. Again.

by: Clyde Middleton   posted: 2010-02-12 18:09:00
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The February 12, 2010, podcast is up for your listening pleasure! This week Clyde and Bill talk about: Middle-class tax increase coming – Agnostic Barry lays the groundwork. Speaking of bailing, Patrick Kennedy finds the exit door – bye. KSM and AG Holder – a beautiful team. The dems are tanking in record numbers on record fronts. Bill and Clyde finish with an extended lightening round. Enjoy! Every episode of our podcasts is here and on iTunes (start iTunes on your computer, in the iTunes Store, Power Search title Patriot Room). You can subscribe on either site. You can also hear us on the Liberty Pundits Netowrk (on demand) and on Radio for Conservatives (Weekday edition broadcast 8:00PM ET Tuesdays and 10:00AM Wednesdays; Weekend edition at 9:30AM-11:00AM ET Saturdays and ...

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Sotomayor to Senators: 2nd Amendment Does Not Apply to States

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2009-06-11 15:22:00
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When the lefties are replacing a lefty on the Supreme Court with another lefty, the balance is preserved and the downside to the country is somewhat minimized. Sometimes you need to pick your battles. If Obama were filling Scalia's seat for example, this would be a Battle Royale. I figured that the Republicans can't stop this nominee anyway, unless something big and nasty was unearthed. Methinks this is it. Though she says she supports Heller's holding that the 2nd Amendment prevents the Federal Government from banning guns, still undecided is the issue of whether that holding also applies to state bans. The Supreme Court has, over the years, decided that each Amendment in the Bill of Rights does indeed also apply to the states. It is crucial that Heller be read the same way. In a rare moment of candor ...

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Emergency Filing: Chrysler Creditors Take Obama to Supreme Court

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2009-06-07 10:05:00
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This is nothing short of Americans asking the Judiciary Branch to step in and exercise its check and balance powers to stop an out-of-control Executive Branch. Our Republic is held together by such power, and in this instance, the Supreme Court is the last bulwark against an authoritarian president nationalizing a private company and extinguishing Constitutionally protected contract and property rights to reach his goal of giving the company to his political allies.

From WSJ.

A group of Indiana pension funds opposed to Chrysler LLC's sale to Fiat SpA filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the sale while they continue their attempts to block it. . . .

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When an apology isn’t necessary

by: Clyde Middleton   posted: 2009-05-30 12:47:00
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Having grown up in a virtually all-white farm community and then teaching predominantly minority students for several years, I have had the blessing of seeing in myself an unintended veil of ignorance. As Justice Sotomayor points out in her now-controversial 2002 speech, there are differences inherited from our ethnic and gender backgrounds: “I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that--it's an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others.” I remember giving a lecture in an Ethics class for a Master’s program. The topic of distributive justice was explored by comparing several fictitious candidates competing for a single position. The candidates had different educational and professional backgrounds, and were a mix of ethnic groups and genders. One student, an ...

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Limbaugh: Sotomayor is a Racist

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2009-05-26 17:10:00
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And when somebody thinks that her race makes her better able to decide what is right, that is exactly what she is.

The offending quote from Judge Sotomayor via Michelle Malkin.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.

And Rush's take from Mark Halperin via Hot Air.

So, here you have a racist. You might want to soften that and you might wanna say a reverse racist. And the libs, of course, say that minorities cannot be racists because they don't have the power to implement their racism. Well, those days are gone because reverse racists certainly do have the power to implement their power.

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Letterman Mocked Sotomayor Before She Was Even Nominated

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2009-05-26 14:12:00
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They just took the wrapper off this nominee and they already have Letterman and the liberals after her. Another great vetting job by the amateurs in the White House. Maybe the Republicans can sit back and watch this one flame-out on its own.

Just as an aside, think of how many liberal heads would have exploded if the Republican dared use such a skit to skewer a Hispanic judge.

Supreme Court Vacancy?

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2009-02-05 13:15:00
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The Associated Press is reporting that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg underwent surgery today for pancreatic cancer. There are not many more details than that so far. Update from AP.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the court said. Ginsburg, 75, had the surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She will remain in the hospital for seven to 10 days, said her surgeon, Dr. Murray Brennan, according to a release issued by the court. The court announcement said the cancer is apparently in the early stages. In 1999, Ginsburg, had surgery for colon cancer and had chemotherapy and radiation treatment. She has been a justice since 1993. The pancreatic ...

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SCOTUS To Discuss Obama Birth Certificate Case on January 9

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2008-12-20 17:19:00
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It's Philip Berg's case and it is a meeting to discuss whether to grant certiorari. From World Net Daily.

One of the original legal challenges to President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility for office to reach the U.S. Supreme Court now has been scheduled for a conference, a meeting at which the justices discuss its merits and whether to step into the fray. Online schedules posted by the court show the case brought by attorney Philip J. Berg is set for a conference Jan. 9. The case is one among several that already have reached the U.S. Supreme Court and address the issue of Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office under the U.S. Constitution's requirement that presidents be "natural born" citizens. Berg has submitted several requests for injunctions, seeking the court's order to stay proceedings in ...

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Did SCOTUS Deny Cert. On The Birth Certificate Case?

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2008-12-05 20:44:00
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I am not aware of any official word about the fate of the Donofrio v. Wells case at the Supreme Court today. It was reportedly set for a conference by Justice Clarence Thomas to decide whether the Court would hear the case. A vote of 4 Justices is required to move the case forward. SCOTUS Blog has a list of some of the cases that were set to be heard. Donofrio is not listed, but the site adds the caveat.

As always, the list contains the petitions on the Court’s paid docket that Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted.

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SCOTUS To Review Birth Certificate Case on December 5

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2008-11-20 12:11:00
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This story may have legs after all. From World Net Daily.

A case that challenges President-elect Barack Obama's name on the 2008 election ballot citing questions over his citizenship has been scheduled for a "conference" at the U.S. Supreme Court. Conferences are private meetings of the justices at which they review cases and decide which ones to accept for formal review. This case is set for a conference Dec. 5, just 10 days before the Electoral College is scheduled to meet to make formal the election of Obama as the nation's next president. The Supreme Court's website listed the date for the case brought by Leo C. Donofrio against Nina Wells, the secretary of state in New Jersey, over not only Obama's name on the 2008 election ballot but those of two others, Sen. John McCain and Roger Calero. ...

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