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05/09/2017 / By JD Heyes

Trump will continue to shape the federal judiciary for decades to come with slate of constitutionalists for federal courts

Some of the founding fathers envisioned that the Judicial Branch – the federal courts, up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court – would be the least powerful of the three branches. Writing in The Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton predicted: Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government […]

05/08/2017 / By JD Heyes

There has been a substantial rise in “fake law” as activist federal judges seek to resist Trump

Left-wing Democrats and their supporters among the electorate and the media have had reason to cheer throughout President Donald J. Trump’s first 100 days in office, winning a series of legal battles against a chief executive they see as illegitimate and unstable, though if this continues, it will mean the end of legitimacy for the Judicial […]

12/28/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Trump has the opportunity to reshape the federal judiciary and return it to its constitutional roots

(Freedom.news) There is perhaps no better mechanism for a president to leave a lasting legacy than through the federal judiciary. Presidents–with Senate advice and, importantly, consent–name judges to the federal bench, as well as Supreme Court justices, all of whom serve lifetime appointments, lest they be impeached by Congress (which does not happen much). President Obama […]

08/01/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

The 10th amendment is completely null and void as we have become a nation of courts, not laws and rights

(Freedom.news) The people of North Carolina have become the latest Americans to be abused by an out-of-control Judicial Branch that has completely neutered the 10th Amendment, rendering it meaningless and ineffectual. Last week a federal appeals court overturned a lower federal court’s ruling, claiming that a 2013 law was discriminatory in requiring voters produce a picture […]

04/13/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Recent comments from Justice Sotomayor demonstrate why the judicial selection process is broken

(Freedom.news) To hear U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor tell it, the primary qualification to sit on the nation’s highest court has nothing at all to do with whether or not you can properly interpret the U.S. Constitution and the original intent behind the various amendments, articles and sections. Much more important is the color of your skin, your […]

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