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Month: June 2012
Steve Benen on the scary part of today's Supreme Court ruling: And yet, as of this morning, four justices -- Alito, Kennedy, Scalia, and Thomas -- insisted on doing exactly.
Even beyond the delightful, subtle skewering of Scalia's hackery, Ginsburg's concurrence is a tour de force. Among many other great points, she completely destroys the broccoli mandate argument: Maintaining that.
CNN, why do you still exist? Your ratings are garbage and rotting daily. You don't represent any constituency except for Beltway elites. You cover up for shoddy reporting and hackish analysis by investing in new technology that are meant to help us forget how bad...
I'll have a piece up shortly at Salon about why it's basically nuts that John Roberts gets to decide what sort of health care system America has. It quotes a.
Not that we should be surprised that Jim DeMint is calling for nullification of the health care law. “I urge every governor to stop implementing the health care exchanges that.
As mentioned below, the four dissenters to today's health care ruling issued an unusual jointly signed opinion of quite remarkable radicalism. It would have radically re-shaped the constitutional order by not merely ruling the individual mandate as beyond the power of the federal government to...
Mandate upheld as a tax. Wow. Political in its own way, but I'll take it. Roberts joins the majority. ...Medicaid provision "limited but not voided." That doesn't sound good. ...If.
At 10am I suspect that the internets are going to have a moment:
As we get ready for tomorrow's decision, I think it's good to be aware of what legal standard Antonin Scalia will be using to decides the case. The best way to do so is to revisit his secret unpublished opinion in an obscure successor to...
Yet again, the Republicans roll back a piece of the 20th century. Congress agreed to freeze student loan rates for a year. At first, I figured, whatever, typical kicking the.
This, this, this: When these conversations only focus on women—when men are mentioned as an aside, rather than a central part of creating change—we not only do a disservice to.