Just in case we need reminding...

...that the best reason for voting for Barack Obama is the status of the US Supreme Court SCOTUS itself reminds us by ruling that testing equipment to be used to kill humans is more important than the lives of Cetaceans.

Why does the Supreme Court...

...hate America so much that they want cheaters to be able to vote?

And God said "let there be guns"...

...and there were guns and God saw that this was good. Get ready for the mayhem as five activist judges on the US Supreme Court have written into the Constitution an individual right to possess weapons as opposed to what the framers intended. I am certain that good right wingers everywhere will soon be actively decrying this terribly flawed decision.

This is just one expert's opinion - your experience may vary

The rabidly right wing sober and moderate Murdoch owned Faux Street Journal seeks out the patron saint of torture, John Yoo, so that he may explain to us the irreparable damage done to America by the freedom hating members of the Supreme Court of the United States who voted in the majority in Boumediene v. Bush. And who better indeed?

Get your fear out!

Great American Newt "I'm an Amphibian Not a Reptile" Gingrich has decided that the US Supreme Court's recent decision in Boumediene v. Bush is the "the most extraordinarily arrogant and destructive decision the Supreme Court has made in its history" and that it could cost us a city. Not New Orleans though; that's already spoken for.

I thought these guys were bought and paid for

Why does the Supreme Court of the US hate freedom so much that they would dare to rule that the guilty evildoers held forever without charge at the luxurious Guantánamo Bay Beach and Leisure Resort have the right to access to civilian courts in order to contest their internment? Apparently these misguided justices believe that the framers of the Constitution intended for evil doers to have rights. I am shocked, appalled and not a little disappointed.

1,000 reasons John McCain shouldn't be President

Number 38: (and I'm serious with this one), the Supreme Court. America might never recover.

When he's right - he's wrong

Smug and arrogant, not to mention fat, US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has already made up his mind that torture isn't "cruel and unusual punishment" as defined in the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution because, get this, it isn't punishment; just psychotic behaviour then. Key quote: "That's my view and it happens to be correct."

What a fucking joke

The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to review a lower court ruling that overturned the Federal Communications Commission's ridiculous regulations barring so-called "fleeting obscenities", and don't be surprised if they overturn that ruling. The right wing Republican court has no particular love of unfettered free speech and we may as well get used to our rights being chipped away until we turn around and they are gone. This will get even worse if McCain gets elected in the autumn. so those of us who instinctively would probably not choose either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama and might consider a protest vote for someone closer to our true politics probably need to reconsider.

Oh, if SCOTUS does allow the regulations to go forward, the rest of the world, with the exception of Riyadh, Tehran and Vatican City, will be laughing.

Today in infamy - "it was just about property rights" edition

On this day in 1857 strict constructionists on the US Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was just property and not a human being.

I think he may have tipped his hand

Anyone wish to place a bet as to which side Chief Justice Roberts is going to side with in the Exxon Valdez case after this inane question during oral arguments? I willing to give very long odds.

Incurious Clarence

America's favourite Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, has bothered to ask a question in oral arguments before the court in over two years (or 142 cases if you are counting). He's probably just too busy counting the pubic hairs on the rim of his Coke can.

Remember you heard it here first!

Just because the National Lawyer's Guild agrees with me doesn't mean it is likely to happen. I am more likely to wake up in bed with Kate Moss tomorrow morning that Scalia is to recuse himself!

Excuse me Your Honour...

...but what does an association between "being a gangster and being Italian" have to do with you? You are an American (not an Italian) and, if you are not, you should rather swiftly resign your post!