Fun,
informative, and free stuff from CourtZero
The
CourtZero book
Learn more about the CZ book, read a chapter
online, or download a .pdf of another chapter
– 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.
If you like
what you hear in these free downloads and want to order the book,
click here.
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 is a regular contributor to, and
chief 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 saw as 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.