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Meet Judge Roger Vinson, the Man Who Ruled 'Obamacare' Unconstitutional
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that President Obama's health care reform law is unconstitutional because of a provision that requires individuals to purchase health insurance. Twenty-six states were party to the suit, claiming that the insurance mandate violates constitutional law. Because Democrats did not write a severability clause into the health care act, the entire legislation may be challenged by the unconstitutionality of certain provisions. Andrew Cohen at The Atlantic notes that today's ruling is a lower-court decision that won't determine the ultimate fate of the ...
Inflatable Boobs and Fart Pads: Contest Seeks Next Crazy Invention
By Monica Garske - AOL News
(Oct. 6) – Wacky products like fart-absorbing pads, inflatable bra inserts, and disposable underwear just go to show you that there really is a market out there for anything. No one knows that better than Kim Olenicoff, founder of Solutions That Stick Inc., a Southern California-based company that has carved out a niche selling weird, offbeat products that solve common problems. Olenicoff is the proud creator of best-selling gems like Subtle Butt – a small strip of activated carbon fabric with an antimicrobial layer that absorbs the stench of farts when placed inside underwear ...
It's Official: Kara DioGuardi Exits 'American Idol'
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 4) --Fans can't be blamed for thinking this was already common knowledge, but in fact, the departure of Kara DioGuardi from 'American Idol' has been merely a presumption all summer -- until now. On the Friday evening before Labor Day, Fox quietly issued a press release confirming what everyone has suspected for weeks: the 39-year-old singer-songwriter-producer will not return as a judge on 'Idol.' ...
Source: Steven Tyler to Be an 'American Idol' Judge
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a friend of Steven Tyler told the Associated Press that the Aerosmith frontman is confirmed as a judge on the upcoming season of 'American Idol.' "While an official announcement about Tyler has yet to come from FOX and the producers of the top-rated show, the source told The Associated Press on Wednesday, 'there is no reason to refute' Tyler's account," the AP writes. ...
Critics of Prop 8 Ruling Make Judge's Sexual Orientation an Issue
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- Critics of "activist judges," start your engines! A developing subplot to Wednesday's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker that overturned California's Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriage, is that Walker is himself reported to be gay. During the case, articles in publications ranging from the San Francisco Chronicle to the conservative website World Net Daily raised the issue of how Walker's sexuality would, or would not, affect his decision. After Wednesday's outcome, the topic bubbled up again. An editorial on the website My Auburn California ...
Family Matters: Candidate's Daughter Campaigns Against Dad in Oklahoma
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyMany candidates for office have to endure personal attacks and negative campaign ads, but it's not often that they come from within their own families. That's the case in Oklahoma, where the daughter of a judicial candidate took out an ad in a local newspaper urging voters: "Do not vote for my dad!" John Mantooth is running for district judge, and his daughter, 31-year-old Jan Schill, is trying to make sure he didn't win. She may have fallen short, as Mantooth gained enough votes Tuesday in the state's primary election to force an Aug. 24 runoff. "John Mantooth is NOT a good father, NOT a ...
The Case Against Judicial Elections: Keep Politics Out of the Law
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe single greatest threat to the "rule of law" in America is not President Barack Obama's health care reform or President George W. Bush's terror law tactics. It isn't a bunch of al-Qaeda thugs posing as terrorists. It isn't punitive damage verdicts in civil cases or, far less seriously, "judicial activism" of the sort loosely talked about all the time by the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The biggest single threat to fair and neutral justice is the trend toward partisan judicial elections at the state and local level. Through this practice, tiny pockets of zealous partisans ...
States Move Away from Elections in Choosing Judges
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIn an effort to reduce the influence of special interests on the judicial system, more states are changing their rules on how judges are selected and moving away from elections. Thirty-nine states elect judges, a practice critics, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, say can breed corruption. They are calling for all judges to be appointed. Last week, Gov. Joe Manchin of West Virginia signed a law adopting public financing for judicial elections, USA Today reported. Wisconsin created a public financing system for state Supreme Court ...
Mitch McConnell Warns Barack Obama on Judicial Nominees
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe top Senate Republican, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), told a conservative legal group that Senate Republicans would hold President-elect Barack Obama's nominees for federal judgeships to time honored standards of judicial temperament and qualification. McConnell was careful to say that Republicans would not resort to "extra-Constitutional" means to block Obama's appointees, as Democrats did to more than a dozen of President Bush's judicial nominees. But he did signal that the smaller Senate Republican caucus has no intention of allowing Obama to fill the courts with his judges ...
Obama: No Originalist Judges
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn an interview with NBC News, Sen. Barack Obama provided a glimpse into how he would select judges for the Supreme Court if he was elected president. Obama indicated that he would have a litmus test for judges; namely, they must believe in a right to "privacy," which Obama said is "implied by the structure of the Constitution.""Well, look, I think that you -- what you can ask a judge is about their judicial philosophy. And as somebody who taught constitutional law for ten years, who actually knows a lot of the potential candidates for Supreme Court on the right as well as on the left 'cause ...
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