Tag: Judge

Shock tactics: Judge politicians by their hair

ANNA Wintour appeared on BBC’s Any Questions during the Monica Lewinsky affair. I youthfully cared about politics and thought the invitation to the editor of a fashion magazine undermined the whole show. How wrong I was. The Vogue editor shared a political pearl of wisdom I have never forgotten. Asked what she thought of the woman with whom Bill […]

An Interview With Mark Judge – HotAir

Earlier this morning, I took an analytical look at media bias and progressive capture through the lens of Uri Berliner’s mea culpa for NPR. Now we can take a much more personal look at those effects by speaking with one of its shame-storm targets.  Mark Judge, a conservative culture writer, found himself one of the […]

Judge Drops Firearms Charges Against Illegal Alien – HotAir

“Laws? Where we’re going, we don’t need any laws.” Rather than a line from the script of a futuristic movie, that may now be an emerging legal concept in the courts of Illinois. This month, an Obama-appointed judge in the Northern District of Illinois dismissed illegal firearm possession charges against an illegal immigrant named Heriberto […]

Federal Judge Rules Illegal Aliens can Own Guns – HotAir

U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled earlier this month that an illegal alien can not be charged for carrying a loaded firearm. What can go wrong? Judge Coleman is an Obama appointee and a liberal judge in Illinois. An illegal alien, Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, was charged with carrying a loaded gun. In her ruling, Judge […]

Judge Rejects Texas AG’s Attempt to Close Nonprofit That Helps Illegal Aliens – HotAir

District Judge Francisco Dominguez rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to shut down the Annunciation House charity operations in El Paso. The state judge called Paxton’s actions unfairly harsh. Judge Dominguez questioned Paxton’s motivation in suing Annunciation House, a Catholic charity. It operates several shelters in the El Paso area that provide housing and […]

Judge Holds Herridge In Contempt for Refusing to Reveal Source – HotAir

Do journalists have a constitutional right to keep sources confidential? That question sits at the heart of a dispute over a Fox News report from Catherine Herridge seven years ago. Herridge, who recently got unceremoniously and strangely terminated by CBS News in the Paramount Minus downsizing, used a confidential source within federal law enforcement to […]

Federal Judge Blocks Texas Border Security Law – HotAir

U.S. District Judge David Ezra ruled today that Texas Senate Bill 4 violates the U.S. Constitution and prior Supreme Court rulings that put the federal government in charge of immigration laws and restrictions. Senate Bill 4 was scheduled to go into effect on March 5.  The new law would allow local law officers to arrest […]