This article originally appeared as the weekend lead for Friday, June 26, 2009. Five months later, it was chosen for inclusion in Opposing Viewpoints, America's Prisons, vol. 2. The inclusion is a special honor for me. Not only is the Opposing Viewpoints series in nearly every high school library in the country, but it provides an invaluable service: fairly representing conflicting views on an … [Read more...]
Sotomayor’s Racialist Judicial Activism
June 26, 2009 By Ben Johnson
Filed Under: Affirmative Action/Race, Bill Clinton, Constitution, FrontPage Magazine, History, Obama administration, Obama appointees Tagged With: Affirmative Action, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, BlackLetter Law Journal, California, capital punishment, Civil Rights, Constitution, cultural bias, death penalty, Department of Justice, disparate impact, disproportionate impact, felon disenfranchisement, Founding Fathers, Fourteenth Amendment, FrontPage Magazine, Harry Blackmun, Harvard, Hayden v. Pataki, Institutional Racism, Jason Schall, Jeffrey Reimen, John Roberts, Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, judicial activism, LatinoJustice, Legal Left, Maine, meritocracy, Minnesota, minority racism, negative liberties, NYPD, Obama appointees, Ohio, Opposing Viewpoints, Oregon, Pericles, Princeton, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Reagan administration, Rep. Ephraim R. Eckley, reparations, reverse discrimination, Ricci v. Stefano, Richardson v. Ramirez, Sonia Sotomayor, stare decisis, Supreme Court, testing bias, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, Vermont, Voting Rights Act, Warren Burger, wealth redistribution, William Rehnquist, Yale Law School
Samuel Alito: Minority Rights Champion
November 1, 2005 By Ben Johnson
DESPITE THE HISTRIONIC RHETORIC EMANATING FROM THE LEGAL LEFT on the apocalyptic consequences of his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. – in addition to being an eminently qualified Originalist jurist – has another attractive attribute: a history of favoring the rights of minorities. In his 15 years on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Alito has compiled a reputation … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Abortion, Affirmative Action/Race, Constitution, Feminism, FrontPage Magazine, Media bias Tagged With: Abortion, ACLU v. Schundler, Alliance for Justice, Anthony Kennedy, anti-Catholicism, Anti-Christian bigotry, Arlen Specter, Borking, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, Clarence Thomas, David Corn, David Souter, Doe v. Groody, Erwin Chemerinsky, Fatin v. INS, filibuster, Freedom of Religion, FrontPage Magazine, George Sorors, George Washington University, Harriet Miers, Interstate Commerce Clause, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Jonathan Turley, jurisprudence, Legal Left, MoveOn.org, Nan Aron, Nation magazine, National Organization for Women (NOW), News, Originalism, People for the American Way (PAW), Politics, Ralph Neas, Robert Bork, Roe v. Wade, Ronald A. Williams, Samuel Alito, Sheridan v. Dupont, Shore Regional High School Board of Education, strict constructionalism, Taxman v. Board of Education of the Township of Piscataway, Third Circuit Court of Appeals, United States v. Rybar, William Pryor, William Rehnquist
