article.nationalreview.com - 10/29/2008
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If Barack Obama is elected president, he will drive the Court further in the wrong direction, and the liberal judicial activists that he appoints will likely serve for two or three decades.
volokh.com - 10/27/2008
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The Drudge Report is blaring this audio of
what appears to be an interview of Barack Obama
in 2001 discussing the Warren Court and economic redistribution. Based on the accompanying...
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Obama on the Warren Court:
article.nationalreview.com - 10/29/2008
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I f America s citizens care to wake
up and pay attention before they elect as president
a sweet-talking, moderate-posing left-wing ideologue with a history of alliances with anti-American radicals, one of the several matters they ought to think ...
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Obama and the Supreme Court by Edward Whelan on National ...
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Courting the right message
ConfirmThem - —
... Today at NRO, Ed Whelan has the best summation I've seen yet (better than any I've done) on what's at stake in the courts if Obama wins. Great stuff: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzAyNTQ3NGM3ODFlOGFkY2QwNmQ4ZGI1MzN... ...
Whelan Nails It
Southern Appeal —
October 29, 2008 Whelan Nails It Filed under: 2008 By Quin Hillyer ( Email ) @ 8:30 am At NRO today, Ed Whelan does a brilliant job explaining what’s at stake for the courts in this election. Do read it. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/5069/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:
You need a reason to vote for McCain/Palin?
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator —
You need a reason to vote for McCain/Palin? When all is said and done, when all the points are placed on the table, when all the rhetoric and speeches are done, this is the pure essence of why we have to vote McCain/Palin : Our Constitution establishes a constitutional republic, a system in which, within the broad bounds that the Constitution sets forth, policy issues are to be determined by American citizens through their elected representatives at the state (including local) and national levels. The great battle over the Supreme Court in recent decades is between the ...
Obama's judges. Althouse's obsession with linking.
Althouse —
... in the Wall Street Journal the other day. Marcus quotes Calabresi and National Review's Ed Whelan -- linking to both -- then asserts that it's "easy to exaggerate the impact of the next president" on the courts. ...
Race and the Presidential Race
The Corner on National Review Online —
... today, a President Obama may well be catastrophic . For all his many admirable gifts, Barack Obama gives ample evidence of being a hard-left ideologue who would pursue policies and make appointments, especially to the Supreme Court , that I believe would be very damaging to the country and unfaithful to American ideals. If Obama is elected, I will hope and pray that I am very wrong. ...
Bill Dyer: Obama is at least badly misleading in minimizing the number of SCOTUS "hard cases" in which judicial philosophy is determinative
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
... justices he likes â Breyer, Ginsburg, and Souter â agreed in the disposition of non-unanimous cases only 61%, 60%, and 63% of the time, respectively. Obama, far from being an idiot, is very intelligent. And, âas somebody who taught constitutional law for ten yearsâ (as he tells us in the interview), he surely knows that what he is saying is false. In other words, the only plausible conclusion is that heâs lying â and heâs doing so in order to distract attention from the terrible impact that his appointment of hard-left judicial activists would have. I can think ...
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Battleground: So many polls out there... —
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