Ilya Shapiro has a somewhat longer piece attempting to defend Shelby County v. Holder. Along with Roberts's majority opinion, it's as effective an argument against the outcome of the case as any rebuttal could be. Let me start with what Shapiro doesn't mention: Section 2...
Month: June 2013
George Zimmerman's lawyer has just performed a cross-examination of the prosecution's star witness which suggests that he's either drunk or on the take from the Obama administration DA. Or possibly.
Glenn Reynolds: Rachel Jeantel made it sound like Travon Martin profiled George Zimmerman… or… what is a “creepy ass cracker”? Somebody ask Paula Deen. But here’s the key: Obama and.
This is even stupider than the usual Republican paranoia. Evidently, Obama is trying to destroy the NFL--by planning to run ads during NFL games this fall explaining the details of the health care bill as it goes into effect. It’s just one scandal after another...
Jeebus. Jeff Olson, the 40-year-old man who is being prosecuted for scrawling anti-megabank messages on sidewalks in water-soluble chalk last year now faces a 13-year jail sentence. A judge has.
I'm sure his thoughts
1. You like Canadian tar sands? Then you'll love domestic Utah tar sands, as Tara Lohan reports! 2. The EPA dropping a fracking study linking the practice to contaminated groundwater in Wyoming is just embarrassing and again suggests the one step forward, one step back...
Forbes is a terrible magazine in general, but now that it is reviving the idea that the tariff was the real reason for the Civil War, it's adding bad history.
The historian of gay America, George Chauncey, with an excellent essay on the history behind the move toward gay marriage. In part: The lesbian and gay liberation movements of the.
It is written. (Not in The Onion).
My longer form reaction. Between yesterday's VRA opinion, the minimally acceptable outcome on the Prop 8 case, and the failure to apply clearly heightened scrutiny in Windsor I'm a little.
Abby Rapoport on what it was andwhat it means. It was the kind of landmark victory that Texas progressives haven’t seen in years—a couple of decades, really. Not surprisingly, conservatives.