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Dissenting Justice: Westboro Ruling Goes Too Far

Where should the nation draw the line on free speech? For Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the defense of First Amendment rights expressed by today's majority ruling in the Westboro Baptist Church case goes too far. The 8-1 decision found that the fringe church's hate-filled picketing at the funeral of a Marine...

Westboro Court Decision Pits Free Speech Against Common Decency

WASHINGTON -- Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church may have won their case in the U.S. Supreme Court today, but not even the most ardent advocates of free speech are rejoicing. "On a personal level, I can't imagine a single person in this country who doesn't feel the pain of this father" whose Marine son's funeral...

Supreme Court Sides With Westboro Baptist Church; Twitter Reluctantly Agrees

Who ever said that free speech would be easy? Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, a small group, made up mostly of members of the Phelps family, that stages protests at military funerals (and other places). The case, Snyder v. Phelps, was filed by the father of a...

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Military Funeral Protesters

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The decision upheld an appeals...

Bachmann Caucus to Start Offering Classes

WASHINGTON (Nov. 10) -- Is Glenn Beck University opening a satellite campus on Capitol Hill? If tea party darling Michele Bachmann gets her way, conservative broadcaster Sean Hannity, Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano and David Barton, a Christian evangelist who has said church-state separation is "a myth," will make up...

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Nan Aron: Hey, Liberals, Stop Being So Mean to John Roberts!

Those mean liberals are picking on him again.

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WATCH: John Roberts Is Your Mom

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05/28/12 Editorial: A Failure of Vigilance Source: International Herald Tribune Justice Sonia Sotomayor properly noted in dissent, "the threat to individual freedom from reprosecutions that favor states and unfairly rescue them from weak cases has not waned with time. Only this court's vigilance has."
05/27/12 Roberts unlikely to bow to pressure on Obamacare Source: Mail Tribune - Medford OR In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that."
05/27/12 Obama out of order with his approach to Supreme Court Source: The Record - Stockton CA The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pivotal case according to the ruling political party's wishes.
05/27/12 Attempts to bully Roberts will be unsuccessful Source: The Leaf-Chronicle - Clarksville TN Leahy unsubtly intimated that to avoid another 5-4 decision Roberts should emulate the leadership that Chief Justice Warren provided in the unanimous decision in Brown v.
05/25/12 Nan Aron: Hey, Liberals, Stop Being So Mean to John... Source: The Huffington Post Those mean liberals are picking on him again.