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Exposing Dick Durbin’s Shameful Record
Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon shines a spotlight on the man who will chair confirmation proceedings for a prospective U.S. Supreme Court justice. Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.)…
Miguel Estrada
American lawyer
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Biden Once Filibustered Black Woman Because of His Partisan Bias
Kaelan Deese of the Washington Examiner highlights an aspect of President Biden’s history that he’s unlikely to trumpet himself. Conservative lawmakers and political commentators have resurfaced President Joe Biden’s previous…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
If the recent state budget crafted by Republicans tossed so many public school teachers into the unemployment lines, why did so many school districts have job openings as the school…
Liberty
Miguel Estrada: ObamaCare Tax Ruling Could Impact Future Federal Use Of Tax Powers
Yesterday in Raleigh, constitutional attorney Miguel Estrada addressed the question of whether the federal government will use the U.S. Supreme Court’s ObamaCare tax ruling as the basis for using the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Long-term impacts from this year’s U.S. Supreme Court rulings
The federal health care case has attracted the most attention, but several other opinions from the recently concluded term of the U.S. Supreme Court could have a lasting impact on…
Education
The soft bigotry of low expectations is alive and well
View in your browser Welcome In a 1999 campaign speech, George W. Bush declared that disadvantaged children in our public schools were victims of "the soft bigotry of low expectations."…
Liberty
2012 Supreme Court Review With Miguel Estrada
Well, this should be a fascinating luncheon speech and analysis by Miguel Estrada, brought to you by JLF and the Triangle Federalist Society.
Education
I, for one, do not welcome our new public school overlord
View in your browser. Welcome Last week, Wake County Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones declared that the chairman of the State Board of Education (SBE) has unilateral authority to…
Liberty
To fight or not to fight
That’s the dilemma Republicans in the U.S. Senate face when it comes to President Obama’s latest Supreme Court nominee. Byron York dissects the situation for the Washington Examiner. York highlights…
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Vote for Sotomayor, or else
Democratic Party leaders in Washington are telling Republican senators to vote for Sonya Sotomayor — or else. The Associated Press reports: The Senate debate over Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor…
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Remember Estrada?
This morning, President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals court judge, to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the first Hispanic to…
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more on Edwards
Here is another piece analyzing the weaknesses of John Edwards. A point which I haven’t yet seen discussed is the role Edwards played on the Senate Judiciary Committee in preventing…