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One of the cases that we’ve been looking forward too the most, Morse v. Fredrick, was decided today. By a vote of 6-3, the court held that Principal Deborah Morse was not acting unconstitutionally when she suppressed Fredrick’s right to hold up a banner that read ‘BONG HITS 4 JESUS.’ You can read my recap […]

Who would’ve thought that millions of dollars in blood money could manufacture more votes than my endorsement?
Turns out Dallas didn’t quite agree with me on the Oakley issue. Oh well. The folks over at Turtle Creek Democrats liked my endorsement, though, and that makes the staff here at DailyWrit (and by staff, I mean […]

I updated the case index to reflect today’s decisions. Notice that there are only 3 cases left on the docket. More analysis to follow this afternoon.

The court today offered rulings in four separate cases. They haven’t been posted online yet, so I’ll talk about what we know as of 10:30 EST. The cases were announced between 10:00 and 10:30am EST.
1) Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife- 5-4 written by Alito
2) Hein v. Freedom from Religion- 5-4 written by Alito — […]

I tried for quite some time to ignore the comments that Senator Obama made recently about religion and how it is being ‘hijacked’ to ‘drive us apart’. The mainstream media and blog after blog after blog (and even Yao) posted about it but I thought it was a marginally interesting debate but never paid it […]

In anticipation of this week’s school-board cases, news wires across the country have been flooded with analysis of the court. Their conclusion is the same as mine: the court has shifted to the right and it isn’t going to get better for a while. Robyn Blumner of the St. Petersburg Times has a particularly interesting […]