In the wake of the pathetic demise of his pet AmericansUnityElect0812 project, Matt Miller responds to what he calls the False Equivalency police: The reason I’ve wanted an independent candidacy has nothing to do with faulting Democrats and Republicans equally. It has to do with...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The D.C. Circuit has upheld the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act, in a case likely to be taken by the Supreme Court (but hopefully not now.) On the.
Propublica's timeline on Obama and civil liberties is very useful. A few notes: More than once, I've seen claims that "one can argue" that Obama has been even worse than.
If this is the stuff that the heirs of Breitbart's hack empire want to frontload, I'm going to be especially entertained by the B material. Meanwhile, not to be outdone in any hack sweepstakes, Roger L. Simon says they're conceding too much in their (I...
Donna Summer, R.I.P.
I have a follow-up to Jamelle's piece talking about the various other ways Romney will be horrible. In particular, we'd be looking at a Supreme Court where Antonin Scalia would.
Andrew Cohen points us to this exhaustive study by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review about the execution of Carlos DeLuna. I will have more when I've had the chance to read the book next week, but the bottom line is that 1)the evidence against...
Jamelle Bouie is definitive: Romney is running for president as a right-wing Republican with right-wing ideas, and it is absurd to think that he would suddenly revert to the Mitt.
I have some initial thoughts about Jeffrey Toobin's Citizens United piece. The key takeaway for me is that Roberts's procedural shenanigans (which don't terribly offend me in themselves) are consistent.
Ah, Virginia Republicans, the party that decided after George Allen proved his racism beyond all doubt that they'd like him to run again. Now, they refuse to confirm judges based on their sexual orientation: Shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, the Virginia House of Delegates...
I remain baffled by the number of people who are convinced that the superficially moderate Romney who was governor of Massachuetts is the "real" one who's just pretending to be.
Nobody could have predicted! And the center not only did not hold, it couldn’t seem to get any attention whatsoever. Americans Elect, a lavishly funded “centrist” group that was supposed.