By John Vinci — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the so-called “26-state lawsuit” against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.   This announcement ends speculation whether recent Obama appointee Justice Elena Kagan will recuse herself from the case. It is clear that Justice Kagan has refused requests that she not participate in this [...]

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the ObamaCare case. According to the Wall Street Journal, “[t]he court, in a short written order, agreed to hear a challenge brought by a group of Republican governors and attorneys general from 26 states, the National Federation of Independent Business and two individual plaintiffs.” The Court will hear arguments in March of 2012 [...]

This interesting news comes from Doug Mataconis over at Outside the Beltway: Yesterday, the Obama Administration was faced with the decision of whether to appeal the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision striking down the Affordable Care Act to the Supreme Court or seek a rehearing before the full 11th Circuit. If it chose to exercise the second option it [...]

By Kevin Mooney — By an overwhelming margin, Arizona voters approved a ballot initiative in Nov. that explicitly forbids government agencies from discriminating on the basis of race, sex and ethnicity. Despite the best efforts of far-left pressure groups to mislead the electorate and intimidate supporters, Proposition 107, also known as the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative (ACRI), prevailed with 60 [...]

Congressman Pete Stark went from obscure, cranky socialist who even the Democrats thought was too nuts to entrust to the Ways and Means Committee Chairmanship to Internet sensation over the past couple of weeks. Did he do a funny dance at a wedding? Maybe he led Congress in one of those frozen mob scenes that get hundreds of thousands of [...]

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan as the newest member of the Supreme Court. The vote was 63-37, with Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) crossing party lines to vote no. There were 5 Republicans that voted in favor of Kagan: Lindsey Graham, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Judd Gregg, and Richard Lugar.

By Kevin Mooney — Thanks in no small part to President George W. Bush’s successful nominations, the U.S. Supreme Court is perhaps the most conservative in history, a front page report in The New York Times declares. In reality, this claim is greatly overstated despite recent rulings. The key swing vote is highly unpredictable and quite left-leaning. Moreover, the more [...]

By Andrius Vaitekunas – All speech should be protected. In Elena Kagan’s world, political speech should be regulated…

By Robert Romano – Before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, on behalf of the Obama Administration, in the recent Citizens United decision that lifted restrictions on independent expenditures on electioneering political speech, argued that political pamphleteering and political movies were not covered by the First Amendment, but that political books were. “I think … a pamphlet would be [...]

A story of Washington politics, the NRA and Harry Reid’s ambition The nomination of Elena Kagan for the US Supreme Court took a political turn this week that could doom her hopes to reach the nation’s highest bench, and no one noticed.  The National Rifle Association announced that they will count a vote for Kagan as a vote against gun [...]