Supreme Court Battles

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Health Care Law

ANALYSIS by Glynn Wilson The United States Supreme Court surprised media organizations and pundits of all stripes on Thursday by upholding the constitutionality of the first ever law regulating the health care industry in the country’s storied history, including the…

A Question of Integrity: Politics, Ethics, and the U.S. Supreme Court

“A Question of Integrity” examines growing concerns about ethically questionable and overtly political behavior by some Supreme Court justices, and explores the need the need to apply the same ethical standards that govern every other judge in the federal court…

The Top Stories and People of 2010

“There is no good on earth, and sin is but a name.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835) “Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a…

Inmates Take Over the Asylum in Political Bloodbath

POLITICAL ANALYSIS by Glynn Wilson The inmates took over the political asylum on Tuesday as a flood of bitter tea spilled all over the American landscape like a bloodbath, leaving the poor and the foundering middle class even more at…

Supreme Court Meets Tea Party?

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Justice Roberts Stokes State of the Union Controversy

A Hard Lesson in Why Elections Matter Analysis: by Glynn Wilson The arch-conservative University of Alabama Law School, with an active Federalist Society chapter, was the perfectly sympathetic setting this week for what most American legal experts would consider shockingly…

OpEd News Interviews Glynn Wilson on Obama and Change

Locust Fork News-Journal editor and publisher Glynn Wilson was interviewed Thursday by the OpEd News on the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency and the subject of change. Here’s the blurb and link. It’s only been a year since we…

Supreme Court Sides With Corporate Donors

The Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision today that will enhance the ability of the deepest-pocketed special interests to influence elections and the U.S. Congress, according to a pair of leading national campaign finance reform organizations,…

Senate Confirms Sotomayor for Supreme Court

The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court on Thursday by a vote of 68-31. President Barack Obama’s first high court nominee, she becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve,…

Pat Buchanan Dons White Sheet, Blasts Sotomayor

Red Meat for the GOP Base… An astounding exchange for the year 2009. Check out the look on Rachel Maddow’s face. Is it about time for Pat Buchanan to retire from the public limelight?

Supreme Court Could Use More Empathy

U.S. Senate Could Benefit From Less Sophistry Guest Column by David Gespass The headline to Jeff Sessions’ op-ed in the July 13 Birmingham News (no link available on their al.com Website) promised a fair hearing for Sonia Sotomayor. But the…

Reverse Reverse Racism and the Supreme Court

Will we ever get past this? Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy For Senator Jeff Sessions and the other Republicans to bring race into this is about the most ridiculous and bizarre thing I’ve…

Senator Jeff Sessions Makes Opening Statement

Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama issued an opening statement this morning in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor that is so misleading it requires serious analysis. Here are a few of the highlights with explanatory remarks. “This hearing…

Sessions Spotted With Eric Holder and Feinstein

NYT On the eve of the big show in Washington, the first Supreme Court nomination hearings of the Obama era, it is interesting to wonder why the New York Times chose to use this photo of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions…

Senator Risks Party's Future in Supreme Court Hearings

Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama, little known to the country, will lead the charge against Obama’s Hispanic nominee, Sonia Sotomayor of New York Editor’s Note: I would like to thank the Huffington Post investigative fund for partial funding for this…

Senator Jeff Sessions About to Hit the National Limelight

Jeff Sessions on Video from 1986 In 1986, future Senator Jeff Sessions was nominated to a federal judgeship. His nomination failed in part due to the disclosure of racially insensitive comments he made as a federal prosecutor. This is just…

Sessions Tips Hand on Supreme Court Fight

Jeff Sessions on Fox News Alabama’s junior Senator Jeff Sessions, who has emerged as the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and will be getting his 15-minutes of fame as the lead attack dog on President Barack Obama’s…