It seems the Roberts Court also made a film expressing its views on American race relations and the proper order between the races. You can watch it below.
I will have more on today's appalling disemboweling of the Voting Rights Act imminently. In the meantime, enjoy this column about why conservative constitutional arguments against affirmative action are wrong:.
It's worth having an open thread just to express anger and frustration over our Plessy-nostalgic Supreme Court ruling the most important section of the most important piece of civil rights.
The man who made Iraq, massive upper-class tax cuts and Sam Alito possible, while reassuring us all the while that a man who governed to the right of the Texas legislature was a harmless moderate indistinguishable from Al Gore, would like to share some insights into...
Not only does reasonable moderate Sam Alito show us that there is no difference between the two parties and elections don't matter and therefore because of Edward Snowden we should.
I knew it was over when the Bruins brought Bob Stanley in to play goal. I don't dislike the Bruins generally, but given that Jacobs was a driving force behind.
The labor historian Jefferson Cowie on why the government desperately needs to recommit to and strengthen the Fair Labor Standards Act: It’s true that we are in the middle of a seismic shift in the way we structure our work lives. Both workers and employers want...
What a wonderful image of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense force in action! Note the sinking PLAN carrier Liaoning in the background. Obviously there's been some sort of dreadful accident--.
The season finale of Mad Men, "In Care Of," contains an inordinate number of what I call "Oh Really?" reverse shots. They typically don't involve dialogue -- and the episode.
It doesn't really surprise me that the big whiskey corporations are doing such a good job of pivoting to the demand for higher quality hooch.* They have the preexisting capital investment, a vested interest in controlling a changing market, and brand identity. Microdistillers have a rough...
The Voting Rights Act might be the main course, but the Civil Rights Act is the appetizer. I alluded to this in the article, but it's worth repeating Ginsburg's examples.
In light of the fact of his concurrence today arguing that affirmative action is the precise constitutional equivalent of Jim Crow, Clarence Thomas has done the only possible honorable thing.