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Bill Pryor's Appointment Contested

Appeals Court Questions Bush's Appointment of Pryor
The Associated Press
ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court is asking the Bush administration to defend the president's appointment of a judge to its ranks while the U.S. Senate was out of session. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Atlanta, asked the Justice Department on Monday to intervene in a case contesting the appointment of former Alabama attorney general William Pryor to that court. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and others are backing a challenge asking the court to rule that the appointment was unconstitutional. Bush appointed Pryor in February during a one-week recess of the Senate, which must confirm judicial nominees. The Constitution gives the president the right to appoint judges directly when Congress is not in session. But Kennedy and others argue that right is valid only at the end of a Congress or during the recess between annual sessions, not during short breaks. (Read: Bill Pryor Got His Judas Money)

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Veterans Will Take Ten Commandments On Tour
By Thom Marshall / Houston Chronicle
A Houston-based veterans' organization plans to tour the country with a religious monument that cost an Alabama chief justice his job last year when he defied a federal order to take it from display in a public building. "We have signed an agreement with Judge Roy Moore," Jim Cabaniss, president of American Veterans In Domestic Defense, said Friday. Moore will retain ownership of his massive Ten Commandments monument but is lending it to the veterans' group for the tour, Cabaniss said. Cabaniss said he and other veterans in the organization will be in Alabama on Monday "to move it out of the dark closet in the Alabama State Supreme Court Building and bring it to the light of day."

10 Commandments Monument Going On Tour
LOS ANGELES -- A 2½-ton granite monument of the 10 Commandments that was at the center of a court fight in Alabama will be hauled to a series of rallies for three months. The sponoring group is called American Veterans Standing for God and Country. The group's president said the organization is neither a church nor a military movement. The group is made up of veterans "taking a stand for what is good for our children and grandchildren," he said.

Moore to Move Monument
By Jannell McGrew / Montgomery Advertiser
The 5,280-pound Ten Commandments monument that belongs to former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is coming out of the closet -- literally. The former chief justice, who was removed from office for defying a federal court order, has given an American veterans group permission to lift his monument from its spot in a private storage area in the Alabama Judicial Building and take it on a tour across the country. The group will end its tour at the U.S. Capitol. Moore has asked Congress to allow the monument to be displayed at the Capitol."At a time when our sacred institution of marriage is being assaulted by those who would deny the law of God, Americans need to be reminded of our moral foundation," the former jurist said in a statement to the Montgomery Advertiser Friday. "I have agreed to allow the Veterans Standing for God and Country to display the monument in various locations across the country."

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Ten Commandments Debate Far From Over
By Jim Siegel / Times Recorder
COLUMBUS -- Two federal court rulings this year have struck down attempts to place the Ten Commandments on government or school property in Ohio -- but the constitutional debate remains far from resolved. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals this past week said Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese must remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom. In January the same court ruled Adams County Schools in southern Ohio must remove granite Ten Commandments stones from the front of four high schools. "My expectation is we're not going to keep doing case after case," said Jeff Gamso, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, which filed these cases. "At some point it really does become clear that they can't do this stuff."

What Form Of Oath Is Taken By A Supreme Court Justice?
By Albert Burns / NewsWithViews.com
That would seem to be a simple question to answer but appearances can sometimes be deceiving. The U.S. Constitution, Article VI, requires: “...judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.” Note that the Constitution does NOT prescribe the wording of the Oath to be taken.

Oppose the Marriage Amendment
By Bob Murphy / LewRockwell.com
I still consider the proposed amendment a horrible idea. It gives the government, not the Church, the authority to define marriage. I find it ironic that the same ministers who lament "liberal activist judges" want to grant new powers to the federal government. (After all, nowhere in the Founders' version of the Constitution does it say anything about the definition of marriage.)

Crossover Christians
By Paul Proctor / NewsWithViews.com
[T]his is what’s happening to Christianity and the church today. Shrewd marketers have been busy bastardizing the faith and redefining what Christianity is to consumers in order to appeal to a larger demographic. In doing so, they are making a lot of play-like Christians out of people who, for the most part, hate holiness and have little or no time or tolerance for God’s Word – cheap imitators who carefully pick and choose from the bible what appeals to their trendy lifestyles as if God has given them that option.

The Presbyterian War
By Pastor Ben House / ChristianCulture.com
The 13 colonies revolted against the most liberal (in the best sense of that word) government of its day. They revolted over a tea tax with rates so low as to make any modern libertarian green with envy. They separated themselves from the land of their mother tongue, cultural heritage, and religious background. Some of the actual causes were so principled as to baffle us in our age of pragmatism. The risks and improbabilities of success were so great as to as astound us in our age of careful calculations. The degree of internal colonial dissent is perplexing to us in an age of ‘truth by polling.’ The number of Patriot leaders that emerged—political, military, and theological leaders—seems mythical to use in an age of mediocrity. The rhetoric of freedom and the political acuity amazes us in our age of political banality.

Helter Skelter Gun Laws Put Some In Jail, Others Openly Carry
NewsWithViews.com
Rick Stanley, a Denver, Colorado businessman and former political candidate, was arrested for openly carrying a gun in violation of Denver Revised Municipal Code 38-117.5(b) on December 15, 2001 during a rally celebrating the Anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Stanley was arrested again in Thornton, Colorado on September 7th, 2002, for violating a Thornton City ordinance, not allowing guns on a person in plain sight. Stanley was convicted on felony counts in both cases and faces prison time. Stanley's lawyers tried to argue that the the Thornton ordinance became invalid after Gov. Bill Owens signed a law last year that limited the ability of local governments to regulate firearms.

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Posted by Editor at July 20, 2004 03:28 AM