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Author: Scott Lemieux

Ginsburg and the Timing of Roe

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On February 17, 2012
Irin Carmon's column on Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the potentially pioneering brief Nixon's Solicitor General Erwin "why should a mere woman get a law school space that properly belongs to a man?" Griswold prevented her from presenting to the Court is very much worth reading....

Anthony Shadid

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On February 17, 2012

R.I.P. A great journalist, and having been hospitalized for asthma attacks more than once...this really hits home. ...as Mizner notes, his final piece on the post-Gadaffi chaos in Libya was.

The War Against Women

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On February 17, 2012
As soon as Virginia's Mandatory Rape Law was passed by the House of Delegates, a great column by a particular Virginia resident was inevitable, and sure enough: This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before...

Thank You Justice Kennedy!

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On February 16, 2012
Say this for anti-choicers, they're extremely creative when it comes to finding new ways to humiliate women: Unfortunately, the “fetal personhood” bill wasn’t the only nutty and frightening piece of legislation that Virginia’s House of Delegates passed. Another bill was advanced requiring a woman undergoing...

Keep Chuckin’ Those Facts!

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On February 15, 2012
We have yet more comedy gold from the most useless website in the known universe.   You will remember that Politifact's "lie of the year" was given to Democratic arguments about Republican efforts to end Medicare that were, at a minimum, perfectly defensible.   So how does...
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