Isabella Thallas (photo, left) didn’t see her 22nd birthday, because Michael Close (photo, below right), 38, killed her over dog poop. Thallas and her boyfriend, Darian Simon, were walking a dog on June 10, 2020, outside Close’s apartment building in Denver. They stopped and encouraged t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
September 21st, 2022 - 11:08 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Will Trump’s Supreme Court judges turn on him?
Trump got what he wanted from an inexperienced federal judge he appointed shortly before leaving office, but her rulings were riddled with favoritism and legal errors, and an 11th Circuit panel (2 Trump judges, 1 Obama judge) struck most of them down (see story here; read their order here). He coul[...]
Why discriminating against gays isn’t a religious right
Private colleges are in the limelight this week in the religious right’s war against gays. Earlier this week, the Seattle Times reported that Seattle Pacific University, a private Methodist-affiliated college, is suffering enrollment declines and shedding faculty and students because of its po[...]
August 26th, 2022 - 4:36 pm § in Law and Courts, Religion
A Handmaid’s tale: Who really killed Roe v. Wade?
Roe v. Wade was overturned by a single vote. The case that overturned it was decided 6-3, but Chief Justice Roberts only concurred in reversing the lower court decision on narrower grounds, and wasn’t in favor of completely scrapping Roe v. Wade. Without Amy Cony Barrett’s vote, Roe v. W[...]
August 4th, 2022 - 2:36 pm § in Law and Courts
A sociopath’s right to bear arms shall not be infringed
Michael Morgan isn’t unique; sociopaths like him are the bread-and-butter of New York tabloids. Two years ago, Morgan, then 18 years old, came out of an apartment building shooting. He missed the intended victim, but killed the victim’s companion. He got away with that crime at the time,[...]
July 27th, 2022 - 4:36 pm § in Politics
This was bound to happen
On Thursday, July 21, 2022, a Michigan Home Depot customer “reached for his wallet and accidentally grabbed his gun,” and shot himself “in the rear end.” (Story here.) When this hit the news, a debate raged on the HorsesAss.org blog (more or less here) about whether this is f[...]
July 27th, 2022 - 2:17 pm § in Law and Courts
The missing ingredient in Democrats’ Supreme Court term limits bill
House Democrats introduced a bill (read it here) on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, limiting Supreme Court justices to 18 years of “active service,” after which they would be “deemed to have retired” (see story here). This isn’t going anywhere, at least not in the present Congr[...]
Objective Truth v. Subjective Belief
This is the battle of the new century, and it’s not going well for the good guys. It feels like 1940, struggling to hold the beachheads in England and Dunkirk (but, as you’ll recall, the good guys won that one; the lesson being to never give up the good fight, no matter how dark the [&he[...]
July 12th, 2022 - 4:15 pm § in Law and Courts
Does this judge think he’s president, or is he simply incompetent?
Congress doesn’t give ICE nearly enough resources to deport all illegals, so it has to prioritize. This is done by the agency’s political bosses in Washington D.C. In fact, a federal law explicitly makes Department Homeland Security (DHS) secretaries responsible for “establishing natio[...]
July 11th, 2022 - 4:45 pm § in Law and Courts
Could abortion trigger a constitutional crisis or worse?
In 1973, the Supreme Court created a right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. On its face, all the court’s 2022 Dobbs decision does is rescind that right. What the court giveth, it taketh away. Which leaves abortion to federal and state legislation. If you follow this string all the way back to the h[...]