By PETER BAKER and SHERYL GAY STOLBERGSupreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on Capitol Hill in May.WASHINGTON — As a young White House lawyer, Elena Kagan waded deeply into politically volatile issues like abortion, immigration and religious freedom that may eventually come before her if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court, according to documents released Friday. Ms. Kagan pushed back against President Bill Clinton when she thought his position on a controversial form of late-term ...
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The hearings for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, began today in Washington D.C. being conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office...
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MEDIA ADVISORY, June 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- A U.S. District Court in Oakland last week struck down regulations in two California cities pitting international law against U.S. military policy. Judge Saundra Armstrong announced Thursday that based on briefs and other documents submitted to the court, the measures violate the Constitution in four ways, including subjecting federal government...
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STATEN ISLAND, NY, May 27 /Christian Newswire/ -- Fr. Victor Salomon, Director of Hispanic Outreach for Priests for Life, said today that the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor does not merit automatic support from Latinos; rather, Latinos and all Americans should carefully scrutinize her views on abortion....
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Analysts are reading hard into President Obama's comments last week that he's looking for someone with "intellectual fire power, but also a little bit of a common touch" and a practical sense of the world. With President Obama expected to announce his Supreme Court nominee as early as Tuesday, speculation over the decision was reaching a fever pitch in Washington.  Republicans continue to brace for, and accept, the likelihood of a liberal nominee -- though...
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An Oakland, California, pastor could face jail time for expressing his pro-life views. Pastor Walter Hoye ran into trouble with an abortion clinic while doing an informational picket. Dennis Howard, leader of The Movement for a Better America, believes Hoye is innocent.  "His approach was simply to carry a sign that said 'Jesus Loves You. Can We Help?' and offering those who wanted it some information about alternatives to abortion," Howard explains. A...
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Supreme Court to rule on right to keep handguns at homeLos Angeles Times - Jacquelyn Martin / AP DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, foreground, speaks at a news conference following the Supreme Court’s announcement that it will rule on whether the city can ban handguns.Justices to Weigh Handgun Ban Wall Street JournalSupreme Court may issue landmark gun ruling Atlanta Journal ConstitutionChristian Science Monitor - Boston Globe - Houston Chronicle - Chicago Tribuneall 675 news...
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This could be a monumental year for our nation’s laws. The pro-life, pro-family movement has suffered several crushing defeats on issues such as partial-birth abortion and free speech, often by the narrowest of margins -- a 5-4 Supreme Court majority. But some of these issues are resurfacing. With the confirmation of two new justices by President Bush, winds of change could blow. Will the partial birth abortion ban finally be allowed to stand? Will organizations like CAP be...
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There have been many things already written about the execution of Saddam Hussein. Some of them are noted below by CNN. Comments by presidents, prime ministers and others from around the world. I felt a need to email you about this topic especially as it relates to restorative
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Two Christian pastors found to have vilified Muslims under Victoria's religious hatred law won their appeal and hailed the decision as a victory for free speech.
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Judge Roy Moore -- The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama . Judge Moore was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama . The judge's poem sums it up quite well.
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Fight over same-sex unions hits court. Several lawsuits, pro and con, will be argued in marathon session By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle The legal war over same-sex marriage in California reaches a new milestone today when lawyers for gay and lesbian couples, religious conservatives, the city of San Francisco and the state will appear before an appellate court for a marathon hearing.
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A liberal activist judge has struck down a constitutional amendment in Georgia which made homosexual marriage illegal! She felt that she knew better than the voters how they should vote and threw out their ballots. The constitutional amendment, passed overwhelmingly by 76% of the voters in Georgia, is now null and void. The homosexuals are determined to win this battle. They know they will never win if the people have an opportunity to vote. So they are turning to liberal activist judges...
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SACRAMENTO - Three people have been found guilty of beating a pregnant woman in an effort to kill the fetus her boyfriend did not want her to carry to term. A Sacramento County jury convicted Terry Buford, Titenesha Russell and Dwayne Curry in the Sept. 25, 2004, attack, district attorney Jan Scully's office said Tuesday. The victim was 7 1/2 months pregnant with Buford's child when the three took the victim to a park under the pretense of going to the movies, Scully's office said....
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wo young sisters at the centre of a bitter custody battle were taken from their biological mother yesterday and sent to live with her former lesbian lover following a landmark court ruling.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A sharply divided U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, backing a second conservative nominated by President George W. Bush in his effort to move the nation's highest court to the right. The largely party-line vote was 58-42 to replace the more moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor with Alito, a federal appeals judge since 1990, and came four months after the Senate approved Bush's first Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts, as U.S....
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Sometimes it's not the words that tell the story. Sometimes it's a cigar. During yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr., there were words aplenty, thousands of them, spoken for nearly three hours. There were words of praise and condemnation, expressions of great confidence and deep doubts, incriminations and recriminations, all delivered with rock-hard partisan sincerity. There were moments of passion and humor, and, at times, even moments of...
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Sacramento, CA—Pacific Justice Institute has submitted an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief to the California Court of Appeals on behalf of a pastor who was arrested for playing Christian music in a public park. Pastor Azim Shariat, originally from Iran, has lived in the United States for thirty years and is a U.S. citizen. In 1981, he converted from Islam to Christianity and is now a pastor who eagerly seeks to share his faith. A few years ago, Pastor Shariat attended a Persian New...
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Democrats are unlikely to block a vote on Samuel Alito's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court even though most members of the party oppose President George W. Bush's nominee. Feinstein, a California Democrat and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said yesterday that while she considers Alito too conservative and will vote against him, his views are not so far outside the mainstream of U.S. politics to merit a filibuster.
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WASHINGTON - Wrapping up five days of confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter said Friday that he will vote for the judge despite concerns about Alito's record on abortion rights.
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