Posts Tagged ‘due process’

McDonald and Kagan

While the Senate Judiciary Committee asked questions this week of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court announced a ruling on an issue Democrats would prefer to avoid; the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. In McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court of the United [...]

Politics of Process and Policy

Democrats will do anything to pass health insurance reform, even, it seems, subvert the constitution. Knowing that they still lack the votes to pass the kickback-filled Senate health reform bill word-for-word, Democrats in the United States House of Representatives have concocted what they think may be a way around having an up-or-down vote on the [...]