John McCormack asserts that Ed Whelan provides a "takedown" of the Iowa Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling. Wow, could it be that a conservative has actually engaged in analysis of a judicial opinion rather than making bare assertions that any judicial opinion that reaches a...
civil rights
The Iowa Supreme Court's ruling is obviously great news. I happen to be conferencing here in the midwest, but will have more thoughts later. Most immediately relevant is that fact.
Aye. Not the rules, but rather the policies that the rules enabled. Important distinction.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court considered a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires a federal remedy if a members of a minority group has "less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their...
On this date in 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought several hundred thousand Americans together in the nation’s capital, where -- depending on whom you might.
It's s a beautiful morning in Boulder, and later today I'm going to take a bus the 25 miles down the turnpike to Denver and Invesco Field, to hear Barack.
Jesse and David say most of what needs to be said about Bruce Bartlett's op-ed, but it's worth saying more about one specific point. The central problem with Bartlett's argument is its triviality and irrelevance: it's indisputable that in the immediate wake of the Civil...
RIPFrom my privileged position, her writing had more impact than her activism and legal work, although for the world the latter two probably made a greater impact. A civil rights.
The Supreme Court yesterday, in 6-3 and 7-2 decisions, interpreted anti-discrimination statutes to include retaliation against employees as "discrimination" even when this was not explicit in the statutory text. The.
The California Supreme Court, six of whose seven members are Republicans, has ruled that the exclusion of same-sex couples from the legal benefits is unconstitutional (pdf). The opinion isn't lucidly formatted but if I count the votes correctly it was a 4-3 decision [confirmed here.]After...
In light of the passing of Mildred Loving, it's useful to return to standard set out by Antonin Scalia to apply the equal protection clause in cases that don't involve.
...in the Sean Bell case (Bell, who was unaramed, was killed and two of his also unarmed friends wounded after 50 shots were fired by officers in Jamaica, Queens.) And.