Federal Judge: Obamacare is Void
Today’s decision by Judge Vinson is another stinging defeat for the administration in its defense of Obamacare. Defenders of the health care bill had tried to paint any legal challenge as “frivolous.”...
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Court to DOJ: No More Stalling on Obamacare Lawsuit
Late yesterday, the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Obama DOJ yet another defeat in the Obamacare litigation—this time related to how quickly the appeal will proceed. Readers of this...
View ArticleObamacare, the Supreme Court, and Recusal
Yesterday, the Supreme Court denied Virginia’s motion to bypass the appellate court and go directly to the Supreme Court in its challenge to the Obamacare litigation. The Court’s decision not to hear...
View ArticleThe Farm Bill Is Not a Farm Law
As every school child knows, to become law, Art. I, § 7 of the U.S. Constitution requires a bill to go through the formal process of bicameral passage in Congress and presentment to the President....
View ArticleAdvice for Obama on Picking Judges
In light of Obama’s appointment of Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, Quin Hillyer’s article in DC Examiner is particularly timely, and worth a read. The article...
View ArticleA Model Case Run Amok
The late Anna Nicole Smith is back in the news. Smith died from a drug overdose in 2007, but her lawsuit against the estate of her former husband, J. Howard Marshall, lives on. In the latest legal...
View ArticleMorning Bell: The Sotomayor Pattern
Yesterday’s Supreme Court opinion in Ricci, the New Haven firefighters case, provides a window to what will inevitably be a significant line of questioning in Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings....
View ArticleSotomayor’s Activist Cases: The 11-Word Dismissal of the Second Amendment
To correspond with Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings next week, I am launching a new daily feature: highlighting a key activist case and, separately, a notable quote for each day. In light of the...
View ArticleSotomayor Quote of the Day: Bias
As described here, each day during the confirmation hearing I will feature an activist case and a troubling quote from Judge Sotomayor. Today’s quote comes from her 2001 speech at the University of...
View ArticleAudio: DeMint, Meese Townhall on Sotomayor Hearings
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Y-fA9PJJk[/youtube] The post Audio: DeMint, Meese Townhall on Sotomayor Hearings appeared first on Daily Signal.
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A Victory for the Rule of Law
Do you remember Anna Nicole Smith? The Playboy model died from a drug overdose back in 2007, but the litigation over her late husband J. Howard Marshall’s estate lived on. After forum shopping for a...
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The Next Chicago Gun Rights Case . . . And Why It Is Important to the Kagan...
Moments ago, the Supreme Court announced that, Yes Virginia, the Second Amendment does in fact apply to the states, and thereby struck down Chicago’s complete ban on handgun possession. But this...
View ArticleLive Blogging the Kagan Confirmation
Deputy Director of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation Robert Alt is scheduled to testify as a minority witness this Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s...
View ArticleLive Blogging the Kagan Confirmation: Day Three
Deputy Director of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation Robert Alt is scheduled to testify as a minority witness this Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s...
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Anna Nicole Smith Returns to the Supreme Court
Today is “first Monday,” the beginning of the Supreme Court’s 2010 term. With the beginning of the term comes a flurry of cases added to the docket for the year. These additions form a significant...
View ArticleThe States to Speaker Pelosi: They’re Serious
When Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was asked by a reporter “where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate,” she responded, “Are you...
View ArticleJudge Rules Obamacare Mandate Goes Beyond Letter and Spirit of the Constitution
In the most significant decision to date involving the numerous challenges to Obamacare, a district court today ruled in favor of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s challenge, and declared the individual...
View ArticleA Stunning Victory for the Constitution over Obamacare
This afternoon, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), more commonly...
View ArticleFourth Circuit Rules, but Challenge to Obamacare Still Stands
Today the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected two challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)—better known as ObamaCare—on procedural grounds. Because the court found...
View ArticleSuppose Joseph Story Had Been Right, and Brutus Had Been Wrong?
The Supreme Court’s term has barely begun, and yet speculation already abounds regarding when the Court will hear and how it will decide politically controversial cases such as Obamacare, racial...
View ArticleObamacare at the Court: Day 3, Severability and Spending
If the individual mandate is the blockbuster issue before the Court, Medicaid and severability may be sleeper hits that ultimately have tremendous impact. If the Court strikes down the mandate, then...
View ArticleA Clarion Call for the American People
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare reflects a tragic misreading of the law, one which could cost us not just economically but also in terms of liberty. On the bright side, the Court...
View ArticleObama’s Gutting of Welfare Reform Is Illegal
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a General Counsel and legal staff to ensure that the agency’s actions are lawful. Did they take the day off last Thursday? We have to question...
View ArticleJustice Kennedy to Deliver Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture
The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies is honored to host Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy to deliver our fifth annual Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture on...
View ArticlePublic Employees Won Big Over Unions This Summer. Here’s the Next Fight Ahead.
This past Labor Day weekend, it was fitting to honor and celebrate the hardworking public servants who teach our children, pave our roads, and serve in state and local government across the country....
View ArticleHow Colleges’ Spending Practices Often Shortchange or Defy Alumni Donors’ Intent
Even during tough times—perhaps especially then—American generosity abounds. The United States has been the most philanthropic country in the world (per capita) over the past 10 years. In 2019,...
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