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Overturning decades of legal precedent, a bitterly divided United States Supreme Court today gave aid and comfort to the enemy by declaring unconstitutional a 2006 law stripping “Guantanamo prisoners of the right to file so-called habeas corpus petitions,” reported Bloomberg news today. Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter supported Anthony Kennedy’s [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Judicial Activism, Rule of Law, War on Terror at 2:12 PM UTC
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The California State Supreme Court yesterday ended the state’s ban on marriages between couples of the same sex. The 4 to 3 vote is receiving widely differing responses. Homosexual groups and supporters are expressing emotions bordering on euphoria, but traditional marriage proponents are vowing to continue the fight with a ballot issue this November. [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Cultural Insanity, Ethics, Judicial Activism, Rule of Law at 3:12 PM UTC
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”So, just what is a conservative anyway? Is it true conservatives don’t want anything to change?” My questioner, a pleasant enough young CPA, along with his wife and six other people my wife and I didn’t know, were seated together as guests at a mutual friend’s 25th wedding anniversary celebration. The small talk had turned to politics, and as is my [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Illegal Immigration, Rule of Law at 4:36 PM UTC
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Rule of Law is fundamental to an egalitarian society, and, like Individual Liberty and Limited Government, a recent addition to the political scene. Rule by Man has held sway over most of humanity for most of history. For millennia, law was created by small ruling elites — often one man — who could [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values, Rule of Law at 12:27 PM UTC
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