Tag: Supreme Court

Sen. Grassley goes forward despite Democrats and protestors turning opening of Kavanaugh confirmation hearing into “verbal brawl”

By Dave Andrusko As you may know I am on vacation but I’m keeping tabs on what already is an unprecedented all-out attack on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who received the ABA’s highest possible rating. Below are the much interrupted opening remarks of Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). But first, …

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A Supreme Battle for Life

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Next week, hearings begin for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Despite the judge’s stellar qualifications, pro-abortion forces are working overtime in an effort to derail his nomination. Judge Kavanaugh has indicated he would not make laws from the bench, but would simply interpret the Constitution …

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Supreme Slant: NYT Justifies Investigations Into Republican Court Nominees: ‘We Had to Try’

By Clay Waters The New York Times is trying its best to find dirt on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, filing an odd public information request with his wife’s employer. (And in 2005 they tried to access sealed private records involving then-Bush-nominee John Roberts, as noted below.) Even the paper’s commenters weren’t convinced …

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Chuck Todd Calls Out Dick Durbin for His Hypocrisy on SCOTUS

By Ryan Foley Editor’s note. This appeared at Newsbusters. The conversation Mr. Foley is referring to took place the day before President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. During Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd interviewed Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois. A …

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ABC’s Nightline Blasts ‘Controversial’ Nominee Before He’s Even Announced!

By Scott Whitlock The new Supreme Court pick is very “controversial,” whoever he or she turned out to be. That was the consensus of ABC’s Nightline. About 90 minutes before Donald Trump announced the name of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Nightline’s Twitter page blasted: Tonight on Nightline, @TerryMoran reports on the controversial Supreme Court Justice pick …

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The war on the right of conscience and the next Supreme Court nominee

By Dave Andrusko As we approach the hour when pro-life President Donald Trump announces his selection to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the flurry of articles—already mountainous—grows even larger. One of the more hostile and unfair (what else?) New York Times stories was headlined, “How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment” [nytimes.com].” Another more …

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“Rolling back” Roe v. Wade could well help protect other vulnerable patients

By Dave Andrusko We are hours away from pro-life President Donald Trump’s announcement who will be his nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The hysteria index is now approaching 100% as the Abortion Industrial Complex gears up to fight whomever the President selects regardless of experience, qualifications, and intellectual firepower. However that …

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Theory behind Roe “does not make any sense”

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Everyone is figuratively on pins and needles in anticipation of Monday’s expected announcement by pro-life President Donald Trump who he will nominate to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is retiring. As we all know this will be President’s second opportunity to fill a vacancy. In 2017, he selected Neil Gorsuch, …

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MSNBC’s Zerlina Maxwell Smears Judge Amy Barrett: ‘Very Catholic,’ Spoke to ‘Hate Group’

By Tom Blumer The left’s paranoia has been quite visible since Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week. Now their bigotry is showing, particularly in the case of potential Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Monday on MSNBC, Zerlina Maxwell went after Barrett, whom she called “Barnett,” for being “very Catholic,” and for …

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President Trump to announce Supreme Court nominee July 9

By Dave Andrusko As you can imagine, the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy and the all-guns-blazing resistance that has already begun by pro-abortionists were topics of great interest at last week’s annual National Right to Life Convention in Kansas City, Kansas. There will be endless speculation over the specific candidate pro-life President Trump will nominate. …

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After Supreme Court Decisions, NYT Lead Story Questions Value of ‘Weaponized’ Free Speech

By Clay Waters A few Supreme Court cases just failed to go the left’s way, and now they are trashing the First Amendment they once supposedly revered. New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak gave the reversal his seal of approval in a long lead story for Sunday’s front page: “How Free Speech Was …

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