PORNO SHOP DECISION
Although many people have mistakenly been led to believe otherwise during the last decade, the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are not and were never intended…
Category: Judicial Supremacy
Religion in Politics
In 1960 the winning presidential candidate, John F. Kennedy, went to great pains to put distance between himself and his church and to reassure every questioner that his…
Speck and Early Parole
A recent resolution introduced into the Illinois Legislature dramatically illustrates the injustice of failing to impose the death penalty for heinous crimes. In Chicago on the night of…
44 SUING JUDGES
Article III of the United States Constitution says that the compensation of Federal judges “shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.” Forty-four Federal judges have just…
Capital Punishment
Probably the most important decision the U.S. Supreme Court will hand down during 1976 will be its determination of the constitution ality of capital punishment. The Supreme Court…
The Problem of the Supreme Court — December 1975
Supreme Court Appointment
Article II of the U.S. Constitution authorizes the President to appoint Supreme Court Justices “with the advice and consent of the Senate.” Unfortunately, the Senate has not always…
New York Default?
If New York’s problems were caused by a tidal wave, an earthquake, or a hurricane, Americans would help as generously as they have always helped victims of unavoidable…
Justice Douglas
Justice William Douglas was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court at the age of 41 because President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to replace what were called the “nine old…
SUPER MAJORITIES
The recent battle in the U.S. Senate over changing the Senate rules to lower the vote required to break a filibuster from a 2/3 majority to a 3/5…