Ye Gods, Diaz is a tool. However, I still have to agree with Peter Beinart that the failure of New York courts to act in defense of the equality and dignity of the state's gay and lesbian citizens was the best thing to ever happen...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Amy Sullivan asserts that the Stupak-Pitts amendment was the result of "political malpractice:"Despite the fact that anyone who has followed U.S. politics over the last thirty years could have told.
The classic Sopranos pattern: big events in the penultimate episode, final episode sets up the next season. But the finale was richly entertaining in itself...
Via ema in comments, some crucial info about Stupak's handiwork:The Stupak-Pitts amendment forbids any plan offering abortion coverage in the new system from accepting even one subsidized customer. Since more than 80 percent of the participants in the exchange will be subsidized, it seems certain...
For your convenience. Included are 26 Democrats now on the record as opposing expanded access to health care but who want to make sure that if health care passes despite.
Brad Ellsworth, Bart Stupak, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. I would hope that this amendment gets stripped out in conference. On the other hand, it's entirely possible that.
Lithwick does a good job of summarizing the issues surrounding upcoming oral arguments about whether the 8th Amendment proscribes life-without-parole sentences for juveniles, but one set of facts under consideration raises another set of questions:Terrance Jamar Graham tried to rob a restaurant with two accomplices....
What I...er, I mean, "(white male) independents in the suburbs (the only constituency in America whose views should matter)" want is for the government to acknowledge that Herbert Hoover's response.
Weigel Ackerman gets there:Hasan is alive. He will be interrogated and tried. We will presumably learn soon why he committed the cowardly actions he committed. Until then, those who speculate.
Reflections from Mark Schmitt.
You may remember, in one of the worst slippery slope arguments ever, school district lawyers objecting to the Supreme Court's salutary decision in Safford School District v. Redding because it.
Absolutely classic Goldberg. I couldn't even make up someone who talks about the "moral superstructure" of shitty George Lucas movies, and goes on to discuss silly ideas with even more.