Published on June 27, 2006 by Bruce Fein | Permalink
This article appeared in the June 27, 2006 issue of the Washington Times.
The United States Congress is spineless.
Its spinelessness is most troublesome in matters of national security where its informing function is most urgent. Since Congress shows no signs of acquiring a vertebrate, it should facilitate the media in playing surrogate by fashioning a newsmen’s exception to the Federal Espionage Act.
Published on June 20, 2006 by Bruce Fein | Permalink
This article appeared in the June 20, 2006 issue of the Washington Times.
The federal newsmen’s privilege statute pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee — the Free Flow of Information Act of 2006 (FFIA) — is nonsense on stilts.
Published on June 13, 2006 by Bruce Fein | Permalink
This article appeared in the June 13, 2006 issue of the Washington Times.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is unlike his vacillating predecessor Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Everything in her constitutional universe was opaque. Justice Alito’s philosophy is made of sterner stuff.
Published on June 7, 2006 by Bruce Fein | Permalink
This article appeared in the June 6, 2006 issue of the Washington Times.
Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Parker, Republican, has summoned his judicial colleagues to resist “obviously wrong” decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Writing in the Birmingham News on Jan. 1, 2006, Justice Parker insisted the judicial oath requires lower court judges to ignore what they believe are errant Supreme Court precedents. Otherwise, he insinuates, constitutional law will come to resemble an ill-begotten petrified forest.