Thwarting Judicial Activism: “Keep Florida Justices or kick them out?”

The Orlando Sentinel asks the question and conservatives know the answer.

Restore Justice 2012 — led by one of today’s Front Burner columnists,
Jesse Phillips — is urging voters to remove the three justices.
Phillips and other critics of the justices contend their decisions have
been bad for Florida.

Defenders of the justices — including
today’s other columnist, former Democratic legislator Dick Batchelor —
argue that efforts like Phillips’ are politically motivated, and would
compromise the court’s independence if they succeed.
The three justices are the only ones left who were appointed by a Democrat, former Gov. Lawton Chiles. The court has angered Republicans in recent years with several decisions that thwarted GOP priorities.

Restore Justice is informing Florida voters on their right not to simply retain Florida Supreme Court justices.  Democrats are upset that voters might actually exercise their very limited and controlled right to choose the new members on the court because these members are liberal judicial activists.  Republicans should remember the actions of activist Democrats on the Florida Supreme Court in 2000.  If you are seeking a more conservative judicial temperament to replace the non-stop judicial activism, you should vote “no” on whether to retain the
current justices. 

DC Court of Appeals reverses campaign finance disclosure ruling

Link here.  The Left views the U.S. Court of Appeals for DC ruling as a blow to campaign finance reform.  The LA Times more accurately describes the ruling as the court essentially found that you cannot just write something into the law (disclosure) that the Congress did not legislate just because it might be a good thing:


A U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington on Tuesday overturned a decision
requiring organizations that run election-related television ads to
reveal their funders, saying a lower court erred in finding that
Congress intended to require such disclosure — a victory for some of the
biggest groups participating in the 2012 campaign

DC Court of Appeals reverses campaign finance disclosure ruling

Link here.  The Left views the U.S. Court of Appeals for DC ruling as a blow to campaign finance reform.  The LA Times more accurately describes the ruling as the court essentially found that you cannot just write something into the law (disclosure) that the Congress did not legislate just because it might be a good thing:


A U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington on Tuesday overturned a decision
requiring organizations that run election-related television ads to
reveal their funders, saying a lower court erred in finding that
Congress intended to require such disclosure — a victory for some of the
biggest groups participating in the 2012 campaign

“Resignation calls fly at Justice Dept. spokeswoman over Media Matters collaboration”


Daily Caller:

“I do find it unusual that apparently during the time that I was prosecuting criminal cases in South Carolina for the Department of Justice, the Department’s press spokesman was clandestinely providing information to chosen media outlets to try to defame me,” Coates told TheDC.


“Some of that information was false.”

“Resignation calls fly at Justice Dept. spokeswoman over Media Matters collaboration”


Daily Caller:

“I do find it unusual that apparently during the time that I was prosecuting criminal cases in South Carolina for the Department of Justice, the Department’s press spokesman was clandestinely providing information to chosen media outlets to try to defame me,” Coates told TheDC.


“Some of that information was false.”

“US Supreme Court turns down challenge to Texas’ interim maps”

If there was still any confusion about this year’s general election
in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to it on Wednesday.  Justice Antonin Scalia denied a request by the League of United Latin
American Citizens to declare illegal the interim congressional and
legislative maps a federal court in San Antonio ordered in March. 
Link to story.

“US Supreme Court turns down challenge to Texas’ interim maps”

If there was still any confusion about this year’s general election
in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to it on Wednesday.  Justice Antonin Scalia denied a request by the League of United Latin
American Citizens to declare illegal the interim congressional and
legislative maps a federal court in San Antonio ordered in March. 
Link to story.