SUPREME COURT: Kagan might not be the best choice
Re: President Barack Obama’s choice of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens. All the present Supreme Court justices have served as a federal judges before being nominated...
View ArticleCOURT: Lack of diversity claims ring hollow
Re: Elana Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Both Kathleen Parker and Patrick O’Callahan weigh in on Kagan’s “lack of diversity” (columns, 5-12). Parker notes that if Kagan is confirmed, all...
View ArticleELECTIONS: Public campaign financing is imperative
We applaud The News Tribune’s editorial warning that the 2010 Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court now threatens to hijack even judicial campaigns – along with this year’s elections –...
View ArticleMARRIAGE: What counts as a popular support?
Apparently, news of Washington’s, not to mention New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire’s, protection of same-sex marriage by elected officials (as opposed to judges) has not reached the Georgia State...
View ArticleMEDALS: Don’t politicians profit from lying?
Re: “Military can catalog WWI bombs but not medals?” (editorial, 8-6). Although I do not advocate lying under any circumstances, I have to agree with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision that lying...
View ArticleMARRIAGE: The real Supreme Court has not changed the rules
The front-page headline Thursday reads, “Supreme Court strikes down same-sex marriage barriers.” A headline correction is in order. United States federal court judges changed the law, not the Supreme...
View ArticleMARRIAGE: God’s definition is the right one
The pre-eminent destroyer of morality and religious freedom is the Supreme Court of the United States. But I take solace that God stands above the Supreme Court. His opinion on marriage has not...
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