Fun, informative, and free stuff from CourtZero

 

The CourtZero book

 

      Learn more about the CZ book, read a chapter online, or download the .pdf version – all free.

      Listen to excerpts from the audiobook version of CourtZero:  A Guide to Judicial Activism for Revolutionaries and Regular Folks:

                       Chapter 1:  CourtZero.  What the book is all about.  We talk about the five steps between freedom and oligarchy.

                                      Chapter 5:  Ed, Larry, and Jerry.  This chapter is a fun exploration of what “separation of powers” really means.  This is great for students and anyone who is curious about how the three branches of our government are functioning.

                       Chapter 7:  A Living, Breathing Constitution.  This is about why an evolving Constitution is both a myth and very dangerous.

CourtZero on the radio

 

      Here is a great interview, for free download, between Marquis Washington of Dividing Lines Magazine and CourtZero’s Craig McCarthy.  Click here to download the entire wide-ranging and engaging discussion of activist judges and activist groups like the ACLU.  If you’d rather hear the forty-minute long and commercial-free interview one segment at a time, use the links below.

                       Segment one explores the questions “what is judicial activism”, and “what’s the deal with the ACLU?”

                                      In part two, we discuss whether the judicial branch is corrupt or simply malfunctioning, along with impeachment of judges, general misunderstanding of what “the law” truly is, and what motivates activist judges.

                                      Part three covers legal efforts to separate people of faith from public life, as well as federal law 42 USC section 1988 and how taxpayer money is used to sue those same taxpayers over public religious displays.

                                      In segment four, Marquis and Craig discuss what people concerned about judicial activism can do, and talk about why the ACLU is scarier than the Patriot Act could ever be.

                    

            Craig McCarthy of CourtZero was for a time a regular contributor to, and legal correspondent for, Free Market News, a libertarian website (slogan:  private solutions to public problems).  Free Market News Network radio has interviewed Craig several times.  You can download some samples:

                       In the first interview, host John St. George discusses the arrest of Christian street preachers at the 2004 Philadelphia OutFest event, for exercising what the authorities considered unfavorable speech.  We also talk about why a “living, breathing” Constitution means no Constitution at all, and some other issues.

                       The next free downloadable interview includes an in-depth update on the arrested Christians in Philadelphia and goes on to discuss the historic and heartbreaking cases of Terri Schiavo and the infant Sun Hudson, as well as euthanasia in general.

                       DO NOT GET A LIVING WILL, an article written after the Schiavo tragedy, has gotten a good amount of attention among bloggers and internet users.   The third interview deals with the controversial notion that you should not get a living will right now, despite popular opinion to the contrary, since they tend to operate as nothing less than a permission slip for doctors to stop treating you.

                       The Supreme Court has ruled on whether or not California or other states can allow their citizens to be treated with doctor-prescribed and regulated marijuana.  No matter where you come down on such use of marijuana for medical purposes, the implications for the amount of power the Court grants the federal government over local governments is important, and this interview points out that there are no longer any limits to the power of the Commerce Clause.  Click here to listen.

                       For a while everyone devoted way too much time to talking about Jennifer Wilbanks, the “runaway bride.”  While it seems to be a frivolous story on its face, there are serious issues in there somewhere.  In this interview, Craig talks about the implications of using the legal system to punish people for exercising basic freedoms.

                       Eminent Domain.  Kelo v. New London changes everything.  In this interview we wonder aloud whether or not our Constitution exists anymore at all.  If property rights mean nothing in the face of the judge’s rulings, then what real rights are there?

 

CourtZero fun stuff

 

  Recently three justices of the United States Supreme Court were interviewed about themselves, the role of foreign law in interpreting the US Constitution, and whether or not they expect regular folks to even care about what the court is doing.  Click here to hear the audio of the most interesting remarks of the justices along with visual comments from CourtZero.

 

  Here is a bit of satire.  This radio commercial is a parody of the ACLU’s “It’s American” attack on the Patriot Act.  In the CourtZero version, we se how destructive and unsettling the ACLU’s efforts are to regular people.