When John Roberts’ niece graduates in May from Butler University this May, the Supreme Court chief justice may attend as a relative — but he has been deemed too controversial to take the stage as commencement speaker.
University faculty members scuttled a student-led drive to invite Roberts to speak at the May 8 ceremony, a decision that has disappointed the students and some conservatives on the Indianapolis campus.
“We try to steer clear of political divides if possible,” Butler Faculty Senate President Jeanne VanTyle told the Indianapolis Star.
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Butler University Deems Chief Justice Roberts Too Controversial for Commencement Address
Monday, March 15th, 20102 Republican Senators Call on Obama to Stop ‘Attacks’ on Supreme Court
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Two Republican senators on Wednesday called on President Obama to stop attacking the Supreme Court, lending support to Chief Justice John Roberts, who took umbrage at the president’s criticism of the court’s controversial campaign finance decision during his State of the Union address.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch told Fox News that he agrees with Roberts, who said Tuesday that Obama’s address was “very troubling” and that the annual State of the Union speech has “degenerated into a political pep rally.”
“Look, it was a political pep rally,” Hatch said. “I guess I’m tired of it myself, just bouncing up and down at whatever strikes you as interesting.
“But the president was wrong on the law, he was wrong on the facts and I thought it was unseemly for him to criticize the Supreme Court while they’re sitting there,” he said.
via FOXNews.com - 2 Republican Senators Call on Obama to Stop ‘Attacks’ on Supreme Court.
3 Reasons Not To Sweat The “Citizens United” SCOTUS Ruling
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Indiana Voter ID: A Tale of Two ID’s
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Opponents to Indiana’s Voter ID Law that is currently in front of the Supreme Court seems to have a bit of a problem. The person they are holding up as a victim is registered to vote in both Indiana and Florida.
On the eve of a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Indiana Voter ID law has become a story with a twist: One of the individuals used by opponents to the law as an example of how the law hurts older Hoosiers is registered to vote in two states.
Faye Buis-Ewing, 72, who has been telling the media she is a 50-year resident of Indiana, at one point in the past few years also claimed two states as her primary residence and received a homestead exemption on her property taxes in both states.
Monday night from her Florida home, Ewing said she and her husband Kenneth “winter in Florida and summer in Indiana.” She admitted to registering to vote in both states, but stressed that she¹s never voted in Florida. She also has a Florida driver’s license, but when she tried to use it as her photo ID in the Indiana elections in November 2006, poll workers wouldn’t accept it.
Subsequently, Ewing became a sort-of poster child for the opposition when the Indiana League of Women Voters (ILWV) told media that the problems Ewing had voting that day shows why the high court should strike it down.
So you see, this is the real reason democrats like Barack Obama and others oppose Voter ID Laws. It prevents voter fraud and voting more than once like democrats typically enjoy.
Read the whole thing. This is only the start of this tale of fraud and abuse.
Second Amendment Media Assault
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Now the the Supreme Court has decided to take up the D.C. Handgun Ban, expect a full on assault from the liberal leftest media here at home and abroad. They will use the power of their media positions to mislead, spin, misuse facts and figures and when neccessary, just outright lie to advance the media and the liberal progressive lefts agenda to ban guns all together.
Of course as anyone with half a brain knows, trying to ban weapons such as hand guns is a futile effort in America. In that it only takes the weapons out of the hands of innocent, law abiding citizens. Leaving them defenseless to the criminal elements that choose not to obey the law that bans the hand guns.
Now here is the relevant part of the Second Amendment and the reason the Left will lose.
A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Now to break it out in it’s relevant parts:
- A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state,
- the right of the people to keep and bear arms
- shall not be infringed.
As many nut jobs on the left try and get away with, that the Second Amendment was only intended for State Militias, this is not true. It not only allows for a well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, but it also allows for the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Lastly and very clearly it states that these rights shall not be infringed.
Now if for some reason Hell freezes over, pigs begin to fly and cows start jumping over the moon and the Supreme Court allows D.C. to continue to ban hand guns, then I would expect a revolution, the likes that have never been seen, well since the last Revolution of 1812.
SCOTUS Does Nothing on Guns
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007The Lefts Wish for John Roberts
Monday, July 30th, 2007Today came the news of Chief Justice John Roberts slip, fall and ride to the hospital.
Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure
Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a seizure at his summer home in Maine on Monday, causing a fall that resulted in minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.
He will remain in a hospital in Maine overnight.
“It’s my understanding he’s fully recovered, said Christopher Burke, a spokesman for Penobscot Bay Medical Center, where Roberts was taken.
I wish him well in his recovery.
Schumer picks a fight that does not yet exist
Friday, July 27th, 2007democrats are so desperate to do all they can to bring down the administration, Chuckie Schumer is ready to pick a fight where there is none.
Schumer to fight new Bush high court picks
New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a powerful member of the Democratic leadership, said Friday the Senate should not confirm another U.S. Supreme Court nominee under President Bush “except in extraordinary circumstances.”
“We should reverse the presumption of confirmation,” Schumer told the American Constitution Society convention in Washington. “The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.”
Out of balance for left leaning nut jobs like Schumer. Here I am thinking I got bad with the likes of Senator Lugar. Thanks for small miracles.
Michelle Malkin has more and as always a better post on this.
