As Sri Srinivasan awaits the confirmation hearing on his nomination to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, some legal analysts are floating the principal deputy solicitor general as a potential frontrunner for the next Supreme Court opening.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider Srinivasan, who was nominated by President Barack Obama to the DC Circuit in 2012, on Wednesday. The federal appeals court in Washington, DC is considered one of the nation’s most powerful, and boasts many Supreme Court justices as alumni, including John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Antonin Scalia.
However, even before Srinivasan comes under Senate consideration, legal analysts are eyeing the 46-year-old as Obama‘s next pick for the high court.
On the morning that the Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments about gay marriage, Roberts was overheard telling a barista at his local Starbucks that he would have to pay cash for his coffee, as his credit card information had been stolen. The Associated Press spoke to a Supreme Court spokesperson, who confirmed that someone got hold of one of the Chief Justice‘s credit card account numbers. Apparently that meant that Roberts had to use cash while he waited for a new card from the bank.
If the director of the FBI and the most powerful judge in the country can be impacted by identity theft, how are ordinary citizens supposed to keep their finances safe?
Short of shunning all credit cards and living a cash-only existence, you’re always going to be at some risk for identity theft. We’re not sure how Roberts lost his credit card number, but it could have happened anywhere. Maybe an online retailer where he’d used the card suffered a data breach that we don’t know about. It’s also possible he handed his card to a waiter at a restaurant, who then secretly swiped it in a portable card reader. From there, it would be a simple matter of “cloning” the card for use in stores, or simply using the number to make an online purchase.
In other words, you don’t have to be an idiot to get your credit card number stolen. The circumstances are frequently outside your control.
The good news is that Roberts (and most victims of credit-card theft) can usually nip it in the bud without any financial loss. Federal law caps losses due to credit card fraud at $50, and most credit cards go a step further and offer zero liability on fraudulent purchases. That’s contingent on you spotting the fraudulent charge in a timely manner and alerting the bank, so we might recommend setting up alerts on your credit card to let you know about possible fraudulent transactions; at the very least, you should carefully read your statement every month.
If you see anything out of the ordinary, just call the number on the back of your card and the bank should quickly credit you the amount and send you the new card. Like …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
By Kevin SpakThe Supreme Court has finished hearing the arguments in the Proposition 8 case, and prognosticators are busy reading the tea leaves for what they might be thinking. Here’s what went down: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and, perhaps surprisingly, John Roberts, peppered Charles Cooper, the lead attorney for… …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at Newser – Home
There IS a small ray of light shining up from the rubble of what is left of America. With Republican governors acting like – well, Republicans and crawling back to lick Barack Obama’s boots, it IS hard to accept; but the fight against Obamacare is still on. The feckless and traitorous John Roberts may not have destroyed us after all.
A lawsuit against the worst elements of Obamacare brought by Liberty Counsel, which has of course been ignored by the Democrat-controlled media, has been set for a rehearing by the U.S. Supreme Court. It will be reheard in the 4thCircuit Court of Appeals. Court observers describe this move as extremely rare and believe this means the matter will almost certainly find its way back up to the Supreme Court itself.
Acting on a Supreme Court directive, Liberty Counsel, which is devoted to defending Christian civil rights, has filed a brief in defense of Liberty University. It has been green-lighted to argue not only against the contraceptive/abortifacient mandate, but the employer mandate, the abortion mandate on religious institutions, and the individual abortion mandate. Moreover, Liberty may argue against the entire Obamacare bill, which could collapse it completely based on the indisputable fact that Robert’s pronouncement of it as a tax stands in direct conflict to constitutional law demanding that all spending bills originate in the House and not the Senate, as what happened.
The Liberty case is the only one in the country challenging the entire employee mandate for all employers, not just “recognized” religious institutions. It will now be able to argue against the violation of an individual’s right to refuse to support abortion and its related actions based on a personal moral revulsion to the murder of innocent babies.
Obama may be able to buy off the plaintiffs in other cases, but not this one. Roberts will have to explain how what he called a tax could have originated in the Senate. There IS a small ray of hope of deliverance after all.
A familiar group is threatening to call for John Roberts‘ impeachment if he decides to goes through with a major political agreement.‘Difficult choice’ they say he has to make
The Supreme Court has finished hearing the arguments in the Proposition 8 case, and prognosticators are busy reading the tea leaves for what they might be thinking. Here’s what went down: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and, perhaps surprisingly, John Roberts, peppered Charles Cooper, the lead attorney for… 
