Category: Legal Affairs
Last Word on Last Rights|States’ Rights|Senate Rites of Passage|Foreign Policy Roadblock
by WS Editors | Nov 1, 2009 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsLast Word on Last Rights—When the Obama administration allowed extremists to seize control of the health-care-reform narrative during the summer, the debate over government funding for end-of-life legal processes was hijacked by right wingers and evangelicals. Senator John D. Rockefeller IV now argues that the issue is too important to be left to the “screamers.” […]
Defending the Ancien Régime
by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2009 | Legal AffairsThe View from the Oval Office “When they were in the Senate both Senator Biden and Senator Obama were both very strong critics of the state secrets privilege. Since assuming office, the administration has used the privilege in at least three cases of which we are aware.” —Andrew Grossman of the Heritage Foundation “These are […]
Al-Haramain v. Obama | Economic Dunkirk
by WS Editors | Mar 15, 2009 | Legal AffairsAl-Haramain v. Obama?—The Al-Haramain warrentless wiretap case is one of the most important constitutional controversies awaiting resolution by the federal courts—if the Obama administration doesn’t obstruct its resolution. The facts are straightforward. In 2004 the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) declared Al-Haramain, an Oregon-based Islamic charity, a “specially designated global terrorist.” While […]
Using Academic Freedom to Keep God in the Science Classroom
by WS Editors | Jun 1, 2008 | Legal AffairsAFTER THE DOVER, PENNSYLVANIA, SCHOOL BOARD adopted the concept of “intelligent design” into its biology curriculum in the fall of 2004, Seth Cooper, an attorney with the Discovery Institute, headed for south-central Pennsylvania to visit the school district. Cooper should have been a supporter of the Dover board’s actions. The Seattle-based Discovery Institute is the […]
Stickin’ (It) to the Union
by WS Editors | Mar 15, 2008 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsThe usually invisible Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) reached a milestone in late February: Indictment No. 5,000, announced in a monthly police blotter that listed seven labor officials sentenced, five entering guilty pleas, and seven others indicted. At the OLMS, statistics matter. Last month at the American Conservative Union’s political convention in Washington, D.C., Labor […]
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