Big government activist court…….
Politico-A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, sidetracking President Barack Obama’s executive order which had expanded federal funding for human stem cell research last year.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that the order, which Obama signed in March 2009, [...]

How much time in prison?
HP-Conservative shock jock and blogger Hal Turner was convicted Friday for making death threats against federal appeals court judges in Illinois.
A New York City jury deliberated less than two hours Friday before finding Hal Turner guilty of threatening the judges, reportedly in retaliation for their 2009 ruling upholding handgun bans in [...]

Under this logic only people who have never had sex could be a judge.
HP-Tony Perkins, head of the influential Family Research Council, argued on Sunday that the judge who overturned California’s ban on gay marriage should have recused himself from the case due to his own sexuality.
One of the most powerful social conservatives in [...]

HUH?
Time-Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle. Then Graber put the video — which could put the officer in a bad light — up on YouTube.
It [...]

Why should we ban gay marriage?
Politico-San Francisco-based U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker effectively overturned Proposition 8, a ballot measure California voters passed in 2008, changing the state constitution to prohibit gay marriage. Walker’s ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the law violated their civil rights.
“After a [...]

Will she win?

Agree or disagree?
HP-A law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero is unconstitutional because it violates free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday as he dismissed a case against a Colorado man who claimed he received two military medals.
Rick Glen Strandlof claimed he was an ex-Marine who was wounded in Iraq [...]

WOW!!!
HP…”What President Bush did with the suspension of habeas corpus, with the whole concept of Guantánamo Bay, with the whole idea that he could avoid and evade federal laws, treaties, federal judges and the constitution was blatantly unconstitutional — and in some cases criminal,” Napolitano said. “They should have been indicted. They absolutely should have [...]

Who will win?
USA-Lawsuits over gay marriage have escalated on the nation’s two coasts, energizing advocates on both sides and bringing the legal battle over same-sex marriage closer to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Final arguments in a constitutional test of California’s ban on such unions were held a month ago this week. A verdict in the case [...]

Agree or disagree?
HP-A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a government policy that can lead to broadcasters being fined for allowing even a single curse word on live television, saying it is unconstitutionally vague and threatens speech “at the heart of the First Amendment.”
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan threw out [...]

Guns in church?
HP-A minister in Georgia is challenging the state’s ban on guns in churches after the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a decision supporting Americans’ right to keep and bear arms.
The Rev. Jonathan Wilkins accuses state officials of violating his First Amendment freedom of religion right and his Second Amendment right to bear arms. [...]

Will the Tea Party support this?
DP-Somehow, we suspect tea partiers won’t be applauding this victory for states rights: A U.S. District Court judge in Boston has overturned the federal ban on gay marriage, saying that it interferes with the states’ right to define marriage. Massachusetts was suing the federal government because it says the 1996 [...]

What would Rand Paul think?
AJC-A former football coach at Savannah State University has accused the school of forcing him to resign because his fiancée is black.
Robert Wells, who is white, was fired in January, one month after he had accepted a one-year contract extension. He filed suit against the university, the state Board of Regents [...]

Agree or disagree?
Political-BP, as the responsible party, is charged with paying all the cleanup and removal costs from the oil leak off the Gulf Coast.
The White House wants Congress to lift the caps on the decades-old oil spill liability trust fund so as to give the Coast Guard more flexibility in coping [...]

Should he do time?
MSN-The son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker was convicted Friday on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin’s e-mail account while she campaigned on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008.
The federal court jury reached its verdict against David Kernell, 22, after four days of deliberation. He was found [...]