No Joke:

So, two guys walk into the JP…
and walk out MARRIED?
Apparently, yes. In Norfolk.
Two guys got their marriage license in Newport News and were married […]

PC turned on its head

What in the world was he thinking?
“For the life of me, I do not understand why a judge would tell an alleged rape victim that she cannot say she was raped when she testifies in a trial about rape,” wrote U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf.
See story: Kansas City Star
Confusion can be the only result […]

Washington Post, Immigration and Hampton Roads

A year later, the Washington Post looks back at a tragedy that sparked a national debate.
“Nobody knew this situation was out there until this catalyzed it,” said Brian Kirwin, a Virginia Beach representative for the statewide group Save the Old Dominion, which counts the Hampton Roads area as its second-largest base after Northern Virginia. “It […]

Blind Justices

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Virginia’s Partial Birth Abortion Ban, which had been remanded back to them by the US Supreme Court in Carhart v Gonzales. See NYT story here.
Attorney General Bob McDonnell’s office suggests an appeal to the full 4th Circuit or the Supremes.

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Democrats taxing homosexuals

Two Democratic talking points are about to collide. California’s Supreme Court ruled homosexuals can marry, while Democrats are campaigning to “repeal the Bush tax cuts.”
Dear friends, one of those Bush tax cuts was the elimination of the marriage penalty.
Either the Dems will suddenly embrace Bush’s tax cut, or Republicans might have an outreach opportunity.

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Welcome to the Judiciocracy of California

On the left coast, the will of the people (and their elected representatives) is really irrelevant - unless, of course it is consistent with the will of the almighty judiciary.
California’s Supreme Court has today decreed that same sex couples must be granted marriage licenses by the state. See: LA Times Story

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If alcohol isn’t costly, it’s o.k. to drink and drive?

So says Judge Bonwill Shockley in a bizarre judgment in Virginia Beach where the defendant was found passed-out at the wheel.

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McDonnell: merit-based judicial selection is the best course

It should come as no surprise to any of us who have followed politics for a number of years that Attorney General Bob McDonnell from the time he was a delegate has been a strong proponent of merit-based judicial selection.

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Bolling reacts to judicial appointment ethics questions

After learning this weekend that Sen. Yvonne Miller has hijacked the judicial appointment process in Norfolk and Virginia Beach and Sen. Creigh Deeds accepted campaign money from an appointee’s law firm (where she is one of two partners) before he strongly advocated for her selection, we asked Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, the presiding officer of […]

Mis-Deeds: Questionable ethics in Dascher appointment

Laura Dascher of Bath County is a partner in the Covington law firm of Pasco and Dascher PLC. The firm gave $2500 to the Future Deeds Campaign in Dec. 2007.
That, in and of itself, is fine. But it’s not the whole story.

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Is Doyle ready to exercise judgment?

Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney and Democrat, Jack Doyle, is on the short-list to becoming a circuit court judge in Norfolk. He is one of the four would-be judicial appointees of Sen. Yvonne Miller for Norfolk and Virginia Beach. However, some information has come to light that might derail his plans to become a judge, […]