The funniest reaction to the Obama administration's salutary decision to not defend the constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA comes, needless to say, from Jeff Goldtsein: Of course, he doesn’t get to determine that – it was passed by the legislature and signed into law...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The Obama administration is refusing to defend this constitutionality of DOMA as it applies to legally married same-sex couples. Sometimes, elections can have positive consequences!
Dahlia Lithwick and Adam Liptak have good articles about yesterday's oral argument in Bond v. U.S. The substantive issue of the case is whether a law implementing the 1993 Chemical.
D.C. federal district judge Gladys Kessler issued the latest ruling, reinforcing the partisan trend. Her opinion is a very solid piece of work, and provides a good account of the existing doctrine if you're interested in such things.
I like this Peter Beinart much better than the old one. Where the women writers at? Here. "Fiscal hawk," in Villager, means nothing more than "a willingness to attack programs.
In any discussion of draconian anti-choice policies that apply pre-viability, the probability of an anti-choice apologist using non-sequiturs about (already illegal) post-viability abortions in order to evade the underlying issue.
Nothing is more damaging to the abortion criminalization lobby than people who actually take the stuff other anti-choicers merely pretend to believe seriously. Investigating miscarriages is appalling, barbaric public policy -- but if you accept anti-choice logic, since self-administered abortions are serious acts of violence...
George Will is a serious intellectual, so just like other conservatives when he expresses a belief that protests and procedural gimmicks constitute an attempt to "repeal an election," this must.
Via Julian Sanchez, Julian Davis Mortenson does excellent decimation work on John Yoo's attempt to project his Schmittian views of executive power onto the framers and the Constitution. For the.
Translated from Teabagger, it means "selling state assets for pennies on the dollar to your wealthy cronies." ...see also. ...and also. ...yet more.
In a less-noticed festivity of Treason in Defense of Slavery Confederate Weekend, an outdoor celebration was held to remember Sherman's famous march through Western Canada. Personal to organizers: next time.
Fortunately, rail funding is one area where teabagger resentment actually makes me happy. If they don't want the money for crucial infrastructure improvements because hippie-punching is a higher priority, we'll.