From Fox News: Presidential candidate Herman Cain on Sunday defended his opposition to a new mosque in Tennessee, expressing concern about Shariah law and declaring Americans “have the right” to ban mosques in their communities. … Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Cain said he came out against the Tennessee mosque after talking to members of […]

Casey Anthony is a good example of a hard person upon which to base future jurisprudence. She is not a likeable person. She regularly lied during the investigation. She did not report her daughter as missing. She partied without an apparent care in the world. But, and this is a most important but, according to […]

https://www.polefinistere.com/dnenev33dto Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their importance… but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. writing for the Supreme Court in Northern Securities Co. v United States […]

Today is the 55th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks on 01 December 1955 for refusing to give up her seat in the front of a Montgomery, AL bus and move to the rear. Here is part of the story as told today by the Montgomery Advertiser: When Rosa Parks refused on the afternoon of […]