2 . “Obama’s Primetime Press Conference,” Real Clear Politics, http://www .realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/obama_primetime_press_transcript.html (Mar. 24, 2009).
3 . Kermit Roosevelt, “Why Judicial ‘Activism’ Explains Little,” CBS News, http://www .cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/08/opinion/main5144440.shtml ( Jul. 8, 2009).
4 . Bryan A. Garner, Black’s Law Dictionary, Third Pocket Edition (2006).
5 . Ibid.
6 . Kermit Roosevelt, The Myth of Judicial Activism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 1–2.
7 . Ibid., 2.
8 . Then Judge John G. Roberts, at his Senate confirmation hearing (Sept. 12, 2005).
9 . Ibid.
10 . Ibid.
11 . Ibid.
12 . Susan Page, “Sessions vows third GOP vote against Sotomayor,” USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-07-27-sessions_N.htm?csp=34 ( Jul. 27, 2009).
13 . David Stout, “McCain Will Vote Against Sotomayor,” a post on “The Caucus,” a blog from the New York Times, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/ mccain-will-vote-against-sotomayor/?scp=1&sq=august%203,%202009%20 mccain%20opposes%20sotomayor&st=cse (Aug. 3, 2009).
14 . Then Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Lecture entitled “A Latina Judge’s Life,” given at the University of California–Berkeley, in 2001.
15 . Sam Stein, “’Where Policy Is Made’: Sotomayor’s Court Comment Explained,” Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/26/where-policy-is-made-soto_n_207570.html (May 26, 2009).
16 . Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, No. 78.
17 . Ibid.
18 . Hon. Richard B. Sanders, “Do State Constitutions and Courts Still Protect Liberty?” http://www.justicesanders.com/20030803CatoInst.htm.
19 . Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803).
20 . Erwin Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction, 5th Ed. (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2007), 12.
21 . Ibid.
22 . Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction, 12.
23 . Laurence Tribe, Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 80.
24 . Ibid.
25 . Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).
26 . Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303 (1880).
27 . Strauder, 100 U.S. at 308.
28 . Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 153 (1973).
29 . “The court as interior decorator – Judge Russell Clark orders capital improvements for Kansas City schools,” National Review ( Jan. 22, 1990).
30 . John Taylor Gatto, “A Billion, Six for KC,” The Odysseus Group, http://www .johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/17f.htm.
31 . “The court as interior decorator,” National Review.
32 . Ibid.
33 . Ibid.
34 . Ibid.
35 . George Will, “More Judicial Activism, Please,” Washington Post, http://www .washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061202755.html ( Jun. 14, 2009).
36 . Ibid.
37 . Ibid.
Lie #4
1 . Vincent Bugliosi, The Betrayal of America (New York: Thunder Mouth’s Press / Nation Books, 2001), 16.
2 . James Madison, The Federalist, No. 57.
3 . “Full Text of the Iraqi Constitution,” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost .com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101201450.html (Oct. 12, 2005).
4 . Ibid.
5 . “President George W. Bush’s Address Regarding Iraqi Elections,” www.johnstonarchive.net/terroirism/bushiraqelection.html ( Jan. 30, 2005).
6 . Ibid.
7 . Kenneth P. Vogel, “Will Afghanistan’s election be fair?,” Politico, http://www.politico .com/news/stories/0609/24105.html ( Jun. 23, 2009).
8 . Fisher Ames, United States Congressman from 1st District of Massachusetts, 1789–1797, in “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (Source: DiLorenzo, Thomas J., “Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo93.html (May 17, 2005).
9 . Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment.”
10 . Ibid.
11 . Ibid.
12 . Ibid.
13 . Ibid.
14 . Ralph A. Rossum, Federalism, The Supreme Court, and The Seventeenth Amendment (Maryland: Lexington Books, 2001), 183.
15 . Ibid.
16 . Ibid., 183–84.
17 . Ibid.
18 . Ibid., 185.
19 . Ibid., 187–90.
20 . Ibid., 190–91.
21 . Ibid.
22 . Ibid.
23 . Ibid., 191.
24 . Ibid.
25 . Ibid.
26 . Ibid.
27 . Jerry O’Neil (Montana State Senator), “Q. Why should we repeal the 17th Amendment and forfeit our right to vote for U.S. senators?” www.liberty-ca.org/repeal17/states/montana2003oneil.htm (2003).
28 . Ibid.
29 . Ibid.
30 . Ibid.
31 . Maraleen D. Shields, “Racial Gerrymandering: Enfranchisement or Political Apartheid,” http://www.drury.edu/ess/irconf/MShields.html.
32 . Ibid.
33 . Ibid.
34 . Ibid.
35 . Ibid.
36 . Ibid.
37 . Ibid.
38 . Ibid.
39 . Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630 (1993).
40 . Shields, “Racial Gerrymandering: Enfranchisement or Political Apartheid.”
41 . Ibid.
42 . Ibid.
43 . Abigail Thernstrom, and Stephan Thernstrom, “Racial Gerrymandering Is Unnecessary,” Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122637373937516543.html (Nov. 11, 2008).
44 . Ibid.
45 . Ibid.
46 . Ibid.
47 . Ibid.
48 . Ibid.
49 . Shields, “Racial Gerrymandering: Enfranchisement or Political Apartheid.”
50 . Private recounts conducted after President Bush was inaugurated indicated that he did, in fact, win the 2000 election. In April 2001, the Miami Herald and USA Today reported that if Florida went ahead with the recounts, George W. Bush would have widened his lead by 1,665 votes. The New York Times also conducted a recount, and reported on November 12, 2001, that George W. Bush would have prevailed. (Sources: “Media Recount: Bush Won the 2000 Election,” PBS Online NewsHour, http://www .pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html (Apr. 3, 2001); Ford, Fessenden, and John M. Broder, “Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes .com/2001/11/12/politics/12VOTE.html?scp=1&sq=november%2012,%202001%20 florida%20ballots&st=cse (Nov. 12, 2001)).
51 . Summary of proceedings from The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin (New York: Anchor Books, 2008), chapters 11–13.
52 . Toobin, The Nine, 165–66.
53 . Bugliosi, The Betrayal of America, 26.
54 . Toobin, The Nine, 166.
55 . Ibid.
56 . Ibid., 167.
57 . Ibid., 168.
58 . Bugliosi, The Betrayal of America, 25.
59 . Ibid., 26–27.
60 . Ibid., 50.
61 . Ibid.
62 . William O. Douglas, The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas (Vintage Books, 1981).
63 . Toobin, The Nine, 201.
64 . Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 109 (2000).
65 . Steven LaTulippe, “Ron Paul and the Empire,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe80.html ( Jul. 31, 2007).
66 . “Obama-McCain Comparisons,” www.obama-mccain.info
67 . Ibid.
68 . “Andrea Mitchell: John McCain Only Met Sarah Palin Once,” Huffington Post, www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/andrea-mitchell-john-mcca_n_122517.html (first posted: Aug. 29, 2008; updated: Sept. 29, 2008).
69 . Ibid.
70 . “Ron Paul’s Opening Statement at National Press Club,” The LRC Blog, http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/022773.html (Sept. 10, 2008).
71 . Butler Shaffer, “The Voting Ritual,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer147.html (Oct. 24, 2006).
72 . David Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS.
73 . Ibid.
74 . Ibid.
Lie #5
1 . Justice William Brennan’s majority opinion in New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 270 (1964).
2 . Geoffrey R. Stone, et al., The First Amendment, 3rd. ed. (New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2008), 20.
3 . Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919).
4 . Frohwerk, 249 U.S. 204 (1919); Debs, 249 U.S. 211 (1919).
5 . Stone, The First Amendment, 30.
6 . Ibid., 31.
7 . Charles Paul Freund, “Dixiecrats Triumphant: The Menacing Mr. Wilson,” reason .com, http://reason.com/archives/2002/12/18/dixiecrats-triumphant (Dec. 18, 2002).
8 . Ibid.
9 . Ibid.
10 . Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919).
11 . Whitney
