Tag Archive 'Judges'
Bookworm on Jan 04 2012 | Filed under: Judges, Judicial activism, Lefties on Parade
As a dues paying California lawyer, I periodically receive an email from the California State Bar offering random tidbits and squiblets of news some assumes California lawyers might find interesting. The January edition intrigued me because of drive-by punditry that appeared in an ethics analysis of Judge Richard Posner’s latest decision. I wasn’t paying attention, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2010 | Filed under: Judges, Judicial activism
Bookworm on May 11 2010 | Filed under: GBLT, Judges
I know that much is being said amongst both Progressives and Conservatives about Kagan’s possible lesbianism. Progressives are mad at her for being in the closet; Conservatives are worried about her orientation affecting her rulings as a Supreme Court judge. Both are completely wrong. Regarding the Progressive’s disdain for Kagan’s decision to keep her private [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England, Judges
If there was ever an example of misguided compassion, this story out of Britain must rank at the top of the list: A psychopathic Satanist, given a ‘life means life’ sentence for strangling his cellmate whilst already serving life for murder, has had that cut to 20 years on appeal in order ‘to give him [...]
Bookworm on Oct 21 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Climate change, Judges, Judicial activism, Media matters, United Nations
Sadie sent me a great trio of stories today, and I want to pass them on to you: The UN wants to make sure that the Western nation’s efforts to protect themselves against cross-dressing jihadists (you know, those guys who don burqas to hide bombs) don’t offend transgendered individuals (who may or may not be [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, Education, England, Judges
I gave the post the above title because, in England, even a woman who is a convicted sexual predator gets to keep up her relationship with the victim: A public school music teacher was today jailed for lesbian sex with a 15-year-old pupil – but was given an astonishing green light to continue the ‘affair’ [...]
Bookworm on Aug 03 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
If you are a young lawyer, struggling to learn what a non-responsive answer really looks like, you can’t do better than this question-and-answer session between Jake Tapper and Presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs. If Gibbs were any slicker, he’d just ooze right out of the room: TAPPER: Robert, in terms of what Geithner and Summers [...]
Bookworm on Aug 03 2009 | Filed under: Abortion, Gay marriage, Judges, Judicial activism
Whether you are for or against gay marriage, Robert George issues a sound warning about the dangers that flow from letting the Supreme Court get its hands on the issue: It would be disastrous for the justices to do so [rule against California's Prop. 8 and, by extension, make gay marriage the law of the [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2009 | Filed under: Freedom, Judges
This clip of today’s Sotomayor hearings may just have hit upon the most important constitutional question that faces us all as we confront our devolution into the Obamatopian State. In this segment, Senator Tom Coburn (R., OK) asks Judge Sotomayor whether she agrees that Americans have a basic right to self defense. The ensuing silence [...]
Bookworm on Jul 14 2009 | Filed under: Judges
You know that I don’t like judges. I’ve certainly made no secret of that fact, and it’s no doubt a by-product of practicing law in a region crawling with activist judges. Listening to Sotomayor struggle to articulate things — and to avoid her own footprint — in response to Sen. Lindsay Graham’s questioning is painful. [...]
Bookworm on Jul 14 2009 | Filed under: Judges
The Washington Post is warning Republican senators not to be mean to poor Judge Sotomayor. It’s a funny (inadvertently funny) article, because the Post editors acknowledge that Obama was anything but gracious when he was a Senator; then they explain why, even though he wasn’t gracious, he was right; and then they urge Republicans to [...]
Bookworm on Jun 07 2009 | Filed under: Judges
Something very weird is going on when a woman has worked 25 plus years as a lawyer (in both the private and public sector), but has only about $1,000 in savings, and less than $1,000,000 in equity. Financial records may show that (a) she gave everything to charity; (b) she gave everything to poor relatives; [...]
Bookworm on Jun 01 2009 | Filed under: Judges
Reviewing the facts and law is so passe. The New Editor explains how it will be done in the Sotomayor era.
Bookworm on May 28 2009 | Filed under: Free speech, Judges
Sotomayor’s statements about judges (better if they’re female and minority) and their role (to make policy) have been disturbing. It’s worth nothing though that, as James Taranto points out that, on at least one occasion Sotomayor came out strongly in favor of free speech, even though it was very ugly speech: Sotomayor Plays Against Type [...]
Bookworm on May 27 2009 | Filed under: Judges
Are you wondering what an Obama court will look like? You don’t need to look very far. If you haven’t yet read Christina Hoff Sommers’ wonderful 1995 book, Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women, run out right now and get a copy. Generally speaking, the book is about the difference between equity feminists [...]
Bookworm on May 27 2009 | Filed under: Judges
The applause from Sotomayor on the Left is, you’ll pardon me for saying, canned. They know Sotomayor is not a solid judicial candidate, so they’re focusing on the usual race and sex packaging. The excitement isn’t there. This is rote identity politics. A good example is Ruth Marcus’s column applauding Obama’s choice, which I reproduce, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment
One of the horrible things about pedophile sex offenders is that, unlike ordinary opportunistic, amoral offenders, they are driven by an overwhelming compulsion. They’re not the smelly old man living in the broken down house. They’re the pre-school teacher, the scout leader, the priest hosting youth groups, and the nice looking man who coincidentally moves [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2008 | Filed under: Judges, Judicial activism
I’m sorry blogging has been so light today, but it’s been a go-go-go kind of day that’s left little time for anything but, well, going. I did have a thought today, which I’ll share with you. Most lawyers I know have little that’s complimentary to say about the average trial court judge, a feeling that [...]
Bookworm on Nov 19 2008 | Filed under: Gay marriage, Judges, Judicial activism
A few months ago, the California Supreme Court overruled the will of the California voters and announced that gay marriage was a fundamental right. The voters responded by changing the California Constitution to state that, in California, marriage is between one man and one woman. As you know, if it were up to me, I’d [...]
Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Gun control, Judges, Judicial activism, Strict constructionism
Just in time for July 4th, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Second Amendment says what it means and means what it says. I personally am not now, nor have I ever been, a gun owner. I keep meaning to go the local firing range and take lessons (operating on the principle that, since I’m [...]
Bookworm on Jun 25 2008 | Filed under: Government
Two anecdotes, and then I’ll get to my point (and the anecdotes do relate to that point): Anecdote 1: I get my medical care from Kaiser and feel that I get great care. Within its four walls, Kaiser is an extremely efficiently run organization that takes surprisingly good care of vast numbers of people. Kaiser [...]
Bookworm on Jun 19 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Judges, Judicial activism
The alternative title for this post would have been: You’re in prison, not a hotel. From Best of the Web Today: He Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly Henry Boateng is an inmate in a Massachusetts State prison. He went to court arguing that his rights were being violated. Yesterday, a federal judge agreed: Boateng, who has [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Judges
No, Obama has not spoken lovingly about mass murderer Che Guevara. However, another prominent Obama supporter has made the two equivalent in a very obvious way: he has displayed in his office side by side posters of Obama (that socialist, artsy-fartsy looking poster) and (who else?) Che. Check out this Webloggin post for a picture [...]
Bookworm on May 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Gay marriage, John McCain, Judges, Judicial activism
Marriage is not, and never has been, a personal right. In Western society, it operates at two levels. First, it functions at a religious level. This is a deeply personal level, because in every religion, marriage is, or is equivalent to, a sacrament. In America, you have the Constitutional right to be married in the [...]
Bookworm on May 21 2008 | Filed under: Judges, Law, Uncategorized
I went to law school in the days when students still took notes by hand. When I started practicing law, secretaries had computers at their desks, but no lawyers did. My first law firm used a “Wang” word processing system, which was really nothing more than a typewriter on the screen. The word processing department [...]
