Tag: judiciary

Due Process When Everything Is A Crime

Government has become so big and intrusive – Congress has passed so many laws, many unread, – the Justice Department so politicized – that there are few checks and balances left to restrain these petty tyrants. Prosecutorial discretion poses an increasing threat…

It’s Time To Curb The Court

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal – well meaning but without understanding.”  Justice  Louis D. Brandeis, 1928 According to some pro-lifers Congress should be ashamed that they have allowed the murder of innocent…

Black Robed Activism

It is said that you can judge a man by the company that he keeps. I wonder if that also applies to the judicial nominees that he supports!  Obama nominated  Cornelia Pillard  to the 11 member US Court of Appeals…