Mario Diaz is the Policy Director for Legal Issues at Concerned Women for America. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. and his undergraduate degree from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 18 May 2011 15:07:00 GMT Wed, 18 May 2011 15:07:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "To everything there is a season," says Ecclesiastes 3:1, and the time for Republican senators to fight on judicial nominations is now! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has filed cloture on the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2011/05/18/time_to_fight_stop_goodwin_liu d21ff25f-16bd-402b-bb39-9fa722909b28 Wed, 18 May 2011 15:07:00 GMT The old adage that "no good deed goes unpunished" seems true in many areas of politics. And judicial nominations have certainly become one of those areas. I recently wrote to argue that Republicans should not play... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2011/05/10/the_liberal_bulldozer 40e1e47f-cef7-435e-9e19-8e5ecd305b56 Tue, 10 May 2011 15:17:00 GMT No, it was not a headline from the satirical newspaper, The Onion. It was just the latest scorn by President Obama toward conservatives everywhere, and conservative women in particular. The President has seriously... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2011/03/26/republicans_should_not_play_nice_on_judicial_nominations 1c02907e-46c5-4e90-b580-e871f8f9ea7b Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:01:00 GMT Abortion is not legal. It can never be. No matter what the Supreme Court has said, the fact is that the right to life is inalienable. I hope that by now abortion proponents are sincere enough to admit that we are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2011/01/24/its_not_legal ed484f45-70f4-4e59-8225-f617cc622405 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:27:19 GMT The liberal cry for more judges has reached an all-time high. Their media cohorts have been banging the drums with the numbers game and the judicial emergency cry in perfect sync. They have become masters of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/12/27/its_about_substance c1d549f2-95e4-4da0-8f43-f24dd0c6f104 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT On Monday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in California's Proposition 8 case. It was the latest chapter in this judicial farce that has become a tragedy for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/12/08/ninth_searches_for_something_anything_to_invalidate_proposition_8 8651d426-46a1-43c5-bfce-894477889f87 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT Robert Chatigny, President Obama's nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, is scheduled for a vote this Thursday in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Chatigny is the infamous judge... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/09/29/"sorry"_doesn't_cut_it_abuse_of_power_should_not_be_rewarded 59ebb726-c7c5-4242-ac48-15433a57427c Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:50:00 GMT Now that several days have passed since President Obama "forgot" the Creator while quoting the Declaration of Independence in his speech before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (see video here), and my blood pressure... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/09/24/obama_forgets_the_creator e36dba03-527f-4506-9485-5832b7e3f311 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:01:00 GMT If you'd like to know what hours of fingernail scraping on a chalkboard feels like, simple give the recent California marriage decision a close read. It's so blatantly biased as to border on comical. And because it is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/08/13/the_prop_8_case_charade dda0f28d-3c33-4f23-a561-c9a1982a2af4 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:03:11 GMT In my previous article, Top 10 Questions Kagan Should Be Asked at the Hearings, I proposed that, given Kagan's past hostility toward religious groups, she should be asked about her views on the First Amendment,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/07/06/tea_time_at_the_kagan_household 6a78eeb9-5264-4bc7-be9a-c63f57db055b Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:25:43 GMT The hearings on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court are set to start on June 28. And although pushing the hearings until after the Fourth of July recess would be the sensible thing to do (since... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/06/22/top_10_questions_kagan_should_be_asked_at_the_hearings 8a7f91f7-61fc-47d2-a7b2-4ad4e5d3408c Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:52:49 GMT The marketplace of ideas is a very powerful forum. In his book, The Doctor and the Soul, Victor Frankl, a survivor of Auschwitz, illustrated this in the most extreme case: "The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/04/27/all_not_created_equal af8ecdb9-b7ec-4799-a5d2-7032720dcdd5 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:46:15 GMT The United States Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice" scheduled for Tuesday was postponed until after the Easter break due to the signing of the health care legislation.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/03/25/holder_holding_by_a_thread 29152640-6adf-432f-9a20-397781fb7c9b Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT We know President Obama is very gifted when it comes to talking the talk. We also know that it is highly unlikely he will walk the walk. However, the real problem is that, despite this knowledge, you can still find yo http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/01/27/the_presidents_speech_will_be_great d04b10b7-ab05-4869-942c-74469b998079 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:45:29 GMT Most reasonable people can understand why President Obama felt extremely confident after his victory just a year ago. No one can dispute that he defied enormous odds to become the 44th President of the United States. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2010/01/21/white_house_arrogance 0acd68c3-7748-4581-b4b4-2cd8432f217a Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:41:50 GMT