Posted in Constitutional Law on Jun 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
“On every question of construction of the Constitution, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” [...]
Posted in Constitutional Law on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
“On every question of construction of the Constitution, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” [...]
Posted in Constitutional Law on Nov 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
General Pervez Musharraf suspended the Pakistan constitution, fired the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and dispensed police officers to enforce martial law in Pakistan. All this to “save the nation”. He also closed down the country’s privately owned television stations.
The Supreme Court justices were ordered to take an oath to abide by the [...]
Posted in Constitutional Law on Nov 8th, 2007 4 Comments »
The Westboro Baptist Church, founded and operated by Fred Phelps, became notorious by picketing the funerals of gay and allegedly gay people. Fred Phelps was disbarred from practicing law in Kansas in 1979 then in 1989 he was disbarred from practicing in Federal Courts. There is no official affiliation between the Westboro [...]
Posted in Constitutional Law on Sep 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
Article I
Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained [...]
Posted in Constitutional Law on Jul 30th, 2007 No Comments »
The Constitution gives the Supreme Court the power to check the actions of the President and the Congress. It can void a President’s actions if they are not allowed by the Constitution. It can void laws that Congress passed if they violate the U.S. Constitution. After the 14th amendment, it can also void state government’s [...]
Posted in Constitutional Law on Jul 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
I read an article by Helen Thomas, who has been covering the White House since the Lincoln administration, in the SeattlePI titled The High Court takes giant steps backward. It is in reference to the recent Supreme Court’s rulings.
This was probably the most uninformed, ignorant and manifestly baseless article written by a [...]
Posted in Constitutional Law on Jun 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Barack Obama gave a speech in San Antonio this past Sunday saying he wants Guantanamo Bay closed. He also stated that he wants to restore habeas corpus. Obama is a Harvard law school graduate, he knows what habeas corpus is and when it applies, but do the crowds he is pandering to understand the complexity [...]
Posted in Constitutional Law on Jun 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Bush told White House Counsel Fred Fielding and other administration lawyers that he wanted to nominate a woman or a minority to the Court, and his legal team has narrowed its focus to a half-dozen contenders, sources said.
What is wrong with this line of thinking?
This is the same scenario that George Bush used when nominating [...]
Posted in Constitutional Law on Apr 11th, 2007 No Comments »
It is about the votes. It is always about the votes, irregardless of what it should be about.
A bill backed by Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers giving the District of Columbia a seat in the House of Representatives will apparently come up in the first months of the new congress for 2007. The constitution [...]