Author: Scott Lemieux
Richard Posner has a piece arguing that the courts have been essentially irrelevant to the progress made by gays and lesbians in the United States. Longtime readers will not be.
Eric Holder seems to be doing everything he can to respond to the Supreme Court's disemboweling of the Voting Rights Act, and good for him: Attorney General Eric H. Holder.
Thankfully, it looks like Ray Kelly will soon be looking for a new job, and it shouldn't be a federal job under a Democratic administration. ....T-N C has more.
North Carolina pushes the envelope: Once a temperate and tolerant beacon of the South, the state is poised to enact a rash of inexpressibly awful legislation, rushed through a Republican.
I'm guessing that Anthony Weiner has the lost any chance of being mayor of New York. I myself would vote for him if I thought he was the most accomplished.
Standing athwart history, saying "stop!" to racial equality since 1957. As Coates says, the offensiveness is compounded by the sheer laziness. You'd like to think that Hanson could at least.
Shorter Antonin Scalia: "Judicial activists who interpret the law in a way consistent with 'the spirit of the age' are like Hitler. Now excuse me while I join an opinion.
Jack Hunter has finally resigned from the office of America's foremost champion of civil liberties. Paul, of course, didn't immediately fire him, because who can blame Hunter for his youthful.