Source: Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on a politically charged law in Arizona targeting illegal immigrants.

Source: CBS
In a historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled even the most grotesque video games are protected by the First Amendment and may be sold to minors. Nancy Cordes reports.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was on “Fox News Sunday” over the weekend to flog his new book. Even though I disagree with his judicial philosophy almost entirely, I still like hearing from him. Breyer has a superior intellect and is the caliber of person who should be serving on The Supreme Court. Again, I’m talking about his intelligence and grasp of the law not his interpretation of it. His belief that the Constitution is a living document that changes with the times is dead wrong in my view.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took SCOTUS newcomer Elena Kagan to his gun club for a lesson in skeet shooting last week. Witnesses say Scalia showed her how to hold a shotgun and the two began shooting skeet.

I think this is actually a very good sign. The fact that an anti-gun liberal like Kagan would agree to go skeet shooting shows that she at least  has an open mind. This could be a small sign that she’s not the rigid ideologue many fear her to be.

Or it could mean nothing and she’s just trying to get to know Scalia better. I remain hopeful.

The horrible Westboro Baptist “Church” took their act to the Supreme Court of the United States today. Margie Phelps, daughter of Fred Phelps, argued her family’s case today in front of the court.

The case is officially known as Snyder v. Phelps and at issue is whether the First Amendment protects protesters at a funeral from liability. In this case, the liability is for intentionally inflicting emotional distress on the family of the deceased.

[Click to download podcast of oral arguments]

We’ve all seen the horrific protests the Phelps family imposes on the funerals of our fallen soldiers. Now SCOTUS must decide if the Phelps family is liable for the harm caused by those outrageous protests.

If the entire Phelps family were hit by a truck tomorrow I would be quite pleased. They are among the most despicable creatures this country has ever produced.

However, I’m very torn about this case. It should be illegal to protest the way they’re protesting. But at the same time I’m not sure if it really should be. It really is a slippery slope when you begin curtailing free speech. You would hope that most people would have enough decency not to use their free speech rights in such a malicious and hateful way, but that’s not the case.

It seems to me a happy medium would be to simply impose a distance regulation. But I’m no lawyer so I don’t know. I don’t have a clue how the court is going to rule on this, but I suspect they may fall on the side of free speech.

From the AP:

The Supreme Court says the Constitution’s "right to keep and bear arms" applies nationwide as a restraint on the ability of government to limit its application.

The justices on Monday cast doubt on a Chicago area handgun ban, but also signaled in their 5-4 decision that less severe restrictions could survive legal challenges.

RedState has managed to get their paws on Elena Kagan’s college thesis. It’s about socialism in New York City from 1900-1933. One could argue that it’s purely an academic paper, but parts of it suggest otherwise. The paper leaves little doubt that she’s at the very least an admirer of socialism if not an outright supporter of it.

Here’s a little taste:

“Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.”

One more for the road…

“The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America.

Judging from pretty much everyone else Obama has appointed to anything you can bet Kagan is a radical leftist. She’s a perfect candidate because she’s never been a judge and barely spent anytime in private practice as a lawyer. That means her paper trail is very thin — which means there’s little ammunition for Republicans to attack.

However, Obama is a good friends with Kagan. He knows who she is and what she believes about a wide range of issues. Therefore, his decision to pick her for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land wasn’t done on the fly. You can bet your ass she’s a radical. I wouldn’t be surprised if she turns out to be the most radical justice on the court — ever. I wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up making Ginsburg look more like Roberts.

Obama isn’t capable of picking a moderate for anything. He didn’t grow up with moderates, he didn’t hang out with moderates, he didn’t go to school with moderates, he doesn’t f*cking know any moderates.

Here’s President Obama nominating Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the next Supreme Court Justice. Kagan has never been a judge and has only 2 years of private practice experience as an attorney. Her only real claim to fame was as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003-2009 where she tried to kick military recruiters off campus.

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As is always the case with President Obama this was about identity politics and nothing more. Kagan like Sotomayor is not the best and the brightest this country has to offer, but she’s a liberal and a woman.

Obama wants to be able to say three women now sit on the highest court, rather than the best legal minds (regardless of their gender or racial make-up).

I couldn’t agree more.

(hat tip Breitbart TV)

It looks like the U.S. Constitution may have a fighting chance after all.

The Supreme Court has stepped in and temporarily blocked the sale of Chrysler to Fiat.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg signed an order temporarily stopping the sale and may decide to have the matter heard by the entire court.

The Obama administration decided to cast aside the law and make up their own bankruptcy rules to reward the union and hose bond holders.

The Chrysler deal is blatantly unconstitutional and it’s almost inconceivable that the Supreme Court would allow it to go through.

Obama and his auto task force are acting like a bunch of gangsters and hopefully the Supreme Court is about to put them in check.