The Oklahoma Political News Service is reporting on tips from courthouse insiders that suggest Oklahoma City Judge Bill Graves may have been removed from the Oklahoma County criminal docket specifically to remove him from the case of the Oklahoma 3, which he has been assigned.
Graves has a reputation as a constitutionalist and a conservative, and […]

As if to provide a fuzzy journalistic counterpoint to John Fund’s clear and on-point Wall Street Journal article on “The Far Left’s War on Direct Democracy,” now we have Dan Morain and Nicholas Riccardi in the Los Angeles Times expatiating, according to the article’s headline, on how the “GOP [is] suffering from a lack of […]

John Fund has an article in the July 26 Wall Street Journal about the low-down dirty rotten tactics of the opponents of initiative rights that at least nominally accorded the citizens of 24 states:

But more power to ordinary people remains unpopular in some quarters, and nothing illustrates the war on the initiative more than the […]

Officials from the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office have scheduled an August 22, 2008, meeting with Paul Jacob’s attorney to reschedule the July 23 preliminary hearing that was postponed. The new hearing will probably be scheduled in September. We’ll announce the new date as soon as we have one.

The Oklahoma Attorney General has asked the court for a continuance to postpone the preliminary hearing for Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson, and Rick Carpenter, originally scheduled for next Wednesday, July 23 in Oklahoma City. A new date for the hearing has not yet been set.
“This will be a long fight. Now a little longer,” Paul […]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling today on Nader v. Brewer, 06-16251, striking down Arizona’s residency requirement for petition circulators, as well as its early deadline for submitting signatures for independent presidential candidates.
The decision came in a 3-0 vote and struck down the ban on out-of-state circulators based […]

On July 23, the Oklahoma Three—Paul and his two co-defendants, Rick Carpenter and Susan Johnson—will have a preliminary hearing in Oklahoma City. At the hearing, the government must establish enough evidence to convince a judge to schedule a trial.
Theoretically, at least. In reality, it is rare for a judge to dismiss a case at this […]

Today isn’t just July 4th; it is Independence Day. It celebrates the rhetorical shot heard ’round the world: the Declaration of Independence. The most powerful statement for individual liberties and against arbitrary government power in the history of the world.
And it matters still today, 232 years later. Because those words led to a nation in […]