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Ken Klukowski: Sotomayor's Confirmation Isn't a Win for the White House

By |2020-04-23T21:54:06-04:00August 8th, 2009|

Sonia Sotomayor is the Supreme Court's newest justice. And now the fallout begins. The confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will impact this nation for decades, on issues ranging from free speech to racial preferences to gun rights. It will also become a major issue in the 2010 midterm elections and the 2012 presidential election, an issue that more likely than not will backfire on Barack Obama to the benefit of the Republican Party.

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Sotomayor, Civil Rights, and Guns

By |2020-04-23T21:54:07-04:00July 15th, 2009|

Over the next two weeks, one of the critical issues will be your civil rights on guns. Senators could benefit from context to understand the importance of this civil right to protect families, especially racial minorities. Given Judge Sotomayor's long record, her confirmation must be more than "transparent," it must be penetrating and the Senators must dig deep.

Jan LaRue: Democrats Double Down on the Sotomayor Race Card

By |2020-04-23T21:54:07-04:00July 9th, 2009|

Democrats are playing the race card with Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court in more ways than one. The White House and Senate Democrats want a vote on Sotomayor's nomination before the August congressional recess. If Senate Republicans surrender to the Democrats' race pace card, it means a fast, uninformed vote on a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court.

NRA v. City of Chicago and Village of Oak Park

By |2020-04-23T21:54:07-04:00July 8th, 2009|

Last year’s watershed Second Amendment case of District of Columbia v. Heller was just the beginning of the fight over the meaning of the right to keep and bear arms. The most significant question now is whether the Second Amendment only applies to the federal government (because D.C. is directly under federal law) or whether it also applies to states and cities under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. This question of whether the Second Amendment is “incorporated” by the Fourteenth Amendment is now being offered to the Supreme Court. The city of Chicago has a law banning handguns similar to the law struck down last year […]

Hans Zeiger: The Death of Dialogue?

By |2020-04-23T21:54:07-04:00July 3rd, 2009|

Cultural relativists like to talk about dialogue. They tell us that we need to engage in dialogue with people who are different from ourselves so that we can understand their perspective and become more tolerant. They tell us that we must listen to the voices of the marginalized and the excluded so that we can rethink our assumptions about the world.

Ken Klukowski and Ken Blackwell: Supreme Court Signals Major Change in Voting Rights

By |2020-04-23T21:54:07-04:00June 29th, 2009|

The Supreme Court's decision today in the racial preferences case Ricci v. DeStefano will be a major story. Less noticed but equally important, the Supreme Court's decision on voting rights last week heralds a sea change in racial politics in this country. Taken with the Ricci decision, it's clear that a new era is dawning on race in America.

Jan LaRue: Sotomayor's 'Fundamental' Flaws

By |2020-04-23T21:53:48-04:00June 17th, 2009|

Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor claim that her Second Amendment rulings are examples of "judicial restraint." The problem is that she's restraining the Second Amendment.

Jan LaRue: Double-Barrel DC Duplicity

By |2020-04-23T21:53:48-04:00June 14th, 2009|

Anti-Second Amendment politicians have a high-caliber hypocrisy second to none. Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and his anti-gun supporters at The Washington Post are heralding the shooting skills of the Special Police Officers at the Holocaust Museum: "Fast Action By Guards Saved Lives, Officials Say":

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Equating Conservatives with Terrorists

By |2020-04-23T21:54:07-04:00June 9th, 2009|

Recent events reveal how far to the left President Obama really is. When the president's Cairo speech, taken with his reactions to the deaths of an abortion doctor and a U.S. soldier, are weighed against his Department of Homeland Security report and his Supreme Court decisions, a pattern emerges. The president is indicating that conservatives can in many ways be equated with terrorists. Such a comparison is outrageous, and the possibility that this mindset could end up on the U.S. Supreme Court makes it all the more dangerous.

Ken Klukowski: Gun Issue Heats Up for Sotomayor as NRA Appeals to Supreme Court

By |2020-04-23T21:53:48-04:00June 5th, 2009|

This week a federal appeals court held that the Second Amendment does not apply to state or city gun laws. Supporters of Judge Sonia Sotomayor incorrectly argue that this affirms her recent gun-control case. Now the NRA is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case, and in doing so heats up the gun-rights issue to potentially become the dominant topic in Sotomayor's confirmation hearings.

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