Oct. 1, 2018 – In recent days we have heard testimony from an alleged victim of sexual assault and a US Supreme Court nominee–vying for an Associate Justice position on our nation’s highest court. What strikes me the most, is the way the hearings have unfolded. If ever there was…
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Guest: Dr. Daniel Breen, J.D., PhD,
Professor Breen is a Lecturer of Legal Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. He holds a J.D. in Law from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in American History from Boston College.
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June 18, 2017 – While Judge Gorsuch was recently sitting in confirmation hearings before the US Senate, his US Supreme Court peers were handing down a rebuke of a precedent he had set in motion in 2008–in the case of Thompson R2-J School District v. Luke P.. Thompson is now infamous case after a recent US Supreme court ruling in Endrew v Douglas County School District RE-1. As a result of this 2017 ruling, the “precedent” set by Gorsuch and his bench in Thompson, and subsequently applied to Endrew by Gorsuch and his bench was “vacated” by the US Supreme Court. What followed was a unanimous rebuke of his opinion from the Supreme Court Justices–and more pointedly Chief Justice Roberts writing for the Court.
March 25, 2017 – Recently the Senate Judiciary Committee embarked upon confirmation hearings for the open position on the US Supreme Court vacated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia in February of 2016. The candidate chosen by President Trump is Judge Neil Gorsuch of the 10th Circuit Federal Appeals Court…
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May 13, 2015 – Jacobson v Massachusetts is a landmark 1905, US Supreme Court case that laid the groundwork for mandatory vaccination in time of catastrophic epidemic of “smallpox.” The ruling referenced a wide-scale and deadly epidemic that was killing and debilitating a broad swath of the population. At the…
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April 5, 2015 – The Answer is an unresounding NO! The US Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Dobrydnev v HHS and thereby made no ruling on whether or not it is constitutional for Vaccine Courts to weigh more heavily the testimony of state sponsored experts rather than…
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March 21, 2014 – If you thought the legal system wasn’t fair, wait ’til you hear about vaccine court and all the injured turned away, families devastated by medical bills and children they will have to support the rest of their lives. These once healthy children will eventually fall on…
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