OBRAMA SUGGESTIONS These suggestions are offered to more fully capitalize on your strengths. 1)I think you want to be recognized as a LEADER WITH VISION. A leader who is in front of the curve to see opportunities to be taken and dangers to be avoided or deflected rather than one who is always “locking the barn door”, One of the best ways to do this is to cite your warnings on vital issues. This is much more effective if you do this as a package rather than interspersed with... Read Full Story

TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE IN OUR ECONOMY PRES. GEORGE bUSH AND VP dICK cHENEY SHOULD RESIGN The quickest and only way to improve economic confidence is for Congress to form a committee to ask Prs Bush and Vice-Pres Cheney to resign for the good of the country. The appointment of of a special investigator by the attorney general will probably be the first of many to investigate the wrong doings of the Bush administration. The public senses that and has lost all confidence. A... Read Full Story

4th Amendment and the Patriot Act Part I USA PATRIOT ACT (USAPA) introduced changes which significantly increase the surveillance and investigative powers of law enforcement agencies in the US. These new powers included criminal as well terrorism activities. The ACT did not provide for a system of checks and balances that safeguard civil liberties. Probable cause and judicial review were frequently replaced by certification by law enforcement officials. In this process a law official... Read Full Story

Where is the conservative Blog 5A Supreme Court taking us? What should we be aware of? Chief Justice Roberts in an article written in 1993 wrote, ”A relaxed doctrine of ‘standing’. would transform the courts into an ombudsmen of the administrative bureaucracy, a role for which they are ill-suite both institutionally and as matter of democratic theory.” In another.” article written in 1993 Justice Roberts wrote, “The one thing(Congress... Read Full Story

Where is the conservative Blog 4C Supreme Court taking us? What is the probable Court outlook ? Court history shows that the periods of conservatism far outnumber progressive periods. The makeup of the present court will result in many years of conservative outlook. At the present there are no conservative Judges ready to retire. The next Judge to retire will probably be liberal Justice Sevens now 87 but still in good health. If a... Read Full Story

Where is the conservative Blog 4B Supreme Court taking us? What type of Court can we expect ? Often led by Justice Antonin Scalia the Supreme Court has limited access to the Courts on a wide range of issues .Restrictive “standing” has tended to harm liberal public-interests and lenient “standing” to help them. The three essential requirements for standing are; an actual injury, proof that the injury was due to something... Read Full Story

Where is the conservative Blog 4A Supreme Court taking us? Why is the Court limiting public access? In a July 2, 2007 article in the Wall Street Journal writer Jess Bivins noted, "The Supreme Court delivered this term a series of decisions conservatives have long yearned for”.Decisions then listed. “But the biggest change under Chief Justice John Roberts might not involve who wins on the merits, but rather. it maybe who gets through... Read Full Story

Where is the conservative Blog3A Supreme Court taking us? The World turned upside down. The original thought behind our constitution was to protect the individual against the excesses of a powerful govt. The present Court appears to have taken the opposite tack. It is deciding to protect large businesses and govt institutions against the clams of the citizens. The Court is accomplishing this by a very stern, “mean”, interpretation of the law. It is also... Read Full Story

Where is the conservative Supreme Court taking us? IS THE COURT TRYING TO DO AWAY WITH THE BILL OF RIGHTS? In Employment Div V Smith (1990) the Supreme Court’s decision could be a threat to the Bill of Rights. First Amendment reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,or prohibiting the free exercise there of”. In 1963, Sherbert V Verner,the Court ruled that the free exercise clause did compel an exemption unless the state could advance a... Read Full Story

Where is the conservative Supreme Court taking us? THE REHNQUIST LEGACY By 1788 James Madison realized that the public desire for a Bill of Right could not be ignored.. As a result 10 Amendments to the constitution called the” Bill of Rights” were ratified in 1791. The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to protect individual rights from violation by the Federal Government. William Rehnquist was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Richard Nixon in 1986 . An... Read Full Story