By: Jeremy Dys – wsj.com – October 11, 2018 Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. By Jeremy Dys As a lowly corporal, Milton Edward Hartman’s death shouldn’t have drawn much attention. But on a summer day in 1919, it seemed as if half the town of...

By: Mike DeBonis – washingtonpost.com – October 11, 2018 Endangered Senate Democrats won their freedom to campaign for next month’s midterm elections Thursday and, in exchange, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got something he highly values — votes on 15 of President Trump’s judicial nominees. The deal struck by the two parties on Thursday allowed the Senate to wrap up its...

By: Elana Schor, John Bresnahan & Burgess Everett – politico.com – September 25, 2018 The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday morning, less than 24 hours after Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford appear before the panel to discuss Ford’s allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than 30 years ago. According...

By:  Ann E. Marimow and Michael E. Ruane  – washingtonpost.com – September 21, 2018 The stories of the old warriors behind the Supreme Court challenge over Maryland’s Peace Cross The stories of the old warriors behind the Supreme Court challenge over Maryland’s Peace Cross A flag covered a bronze tablet, and a Gold Star mother who had lost a son to...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – September 16, 2018 They’re serious but not solid. The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh — outlined now on the record in the Washington Post by Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford — are substantial and serious. She claims that Kavanaugh knocked her down, groped her, and attempted to remove her clothes. Here’s the core...

By: Katrina Gulliver – nationalreview.com – September 12, 2018 On September 4, attorney Zina Bash, a former clerk for Judge Brett Kavanaugh who was helping steer his nomination to the Supreme Court through the Senate, appeared to make an important gesture at his confirmation hearings. If you followed the resulting hysteria on Twitter, you could be forgiven for thinking she’d...

By: Andrew O’Reilly – FoxNews.com – September 13, 2018 California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein refers secret letter about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to federal authorities; chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel reports from Capitol Hill. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Thursday threw a cryptic curveball at Brett Kavanaugh, insinuating the Supreme Court nominee could be guilty of a crime even...

By: davenj1 from the diaries by strife – redstate.com – September 9, 2018 ========= Promoted from the diaries by streiff. Promotion does not imply endorsement. ========= The editorial board of the New York Times recently penned an editorial titled “Confirmed: Brett Kavanaugh Can’t Be Trusted.” If one wants to read this partisan piece of journalistic drivel, see here. Let me...

By: Ken Blackwell – stream.org – September 3, 2018 Spoiler alert: it’s easy to predict much of what will happen this week during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. That’s because Democrats showed their hands almost immediately after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Court, when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took to the...

Texas Supreme Court: Cheerleaders Win Again! Court rejects the Kountze ISD latest attack on cheerleader’s freedom to have Bible verses on run-through banners. Austin, TX—The Texas Supreme Court today denied to hear the Kountze Independent School District’s appeal of an earlier decision protecting the right of cheerleaders in that district to have Bible verses on run-through banners. Lead appellate counsel...