Over the weekend, Dahlia Lithwick posted an article on Slate about the lack of courage in today’s political debate. Specifically, she discussed the successful efforts of gay marriage opponents to keep cameras out of the courtroom in the trial over California’s Prop 8 and a recent Supreme Court case regarding whether the state of Washington [...]
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Willing to Prevent the Downfall of Civilization, So Long As They Don’t Have to Leave the House
June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law and Justice, Politics, Supreme Court
Tags: civil rights·Dahlia Lithwick·gay marriage·gay rights·LGBT rights·Maggie Gallagher·political courage·Prop 8·Slate·Supreme Court·The New Republic·victims
Mr. Moonlight
June 18th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law and Justice, Politics
Check out my guest post on the Virginia Attorney General’s frivolous anti-health lawsuit. It’s on the blog of the Virginia Organizing Project, a wonderful grassroots organization empowering people in local communities to improve their quality of life.
-AR
Tags: Commerce Clause·health care·health care lawsuits·health care reform·Ken Cuccinelli·Virginia Organizing Project
WWJD(if he were a misogynistic advice columnist)?
June 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics
Pat Robertson is receiving criticism for telling a 700 Club viewer concerned about her husband flirting with other women that she should “make [herself] as attractive as possible and [not] hassle him about it.”
In fairness to Robertson, his job as a pastor is not to take sides in America’s culture wars, but rather to interpret [...]
Tags: Christianity·culture wars·Pat Robertson·religious right·sexism
Republican Primary Sabotage: Minor Damage to Dems, Major Damage to Selves
June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics
A great deal of attention has been given the last few days to Alvin Greene, the unemployed veteran who pulled off a shocking upset in the Democratic Primary for South Carolina’s Senate seat. Greene won 60% of the vote despite seemingly not even running a campaign; South Carolina’s Democratic leaders cannot recall him appearing at [...]
Tags: 2010 elections·Alvin Greene·conspiracy theories·extremism·Harry Reid·Rand Paul·Republican trickery·right-wing paranoia·Sharron Angle·South Carolina·South Carolina senate·Tea Parties
See? It says so right there!
May 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Uncategorized
This post by Monica Potts shows that cries from supporters of Arizona’s abhorrent immigration law that the law’s opponents haven’t even read the bill aren’t quite the smoking gun they’re presented as (regardless of what Jan Brewer’s cheap Kermit rip-off might say.) However, the post does not address the obnoxious argument that’s usually paired [...]
Tags: Arizona·Brown v. Board of Education·conservative logic·Immigration·Jan Brewer·John Yoo·race·racism·SB 1070
Reason Number 14,538 To Miss John Paul Stevens
May 17th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law and Justice, Supreme Court
In his brief (1.5 paragraph) concurrence to today’s ruling that life without parole is an unconstitutional sentence for minors for non-homicide offenses, Stevens gives about as perfect and concise a summary of a liberal view of Constitutional interpretation as one could ask for:
Society changes. Knowledge accumulates. We learn, sometimes, from our mistakes. Punishments that did [...]
Tags: constitutional law·Graham v. Florida·John Paul Stevens·juvenile justice·Supreme Court
Today’s Reason to be Grateful
May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Immigration, Politics
There are lots of reasons to be frustrated with the first 16 months of Barack Obama’s presidency. Continuation of many of the Bush anti-terrorism policies. Escalating the war in Afghanistan. Dragging his feet on gay rights. Failing to put an unabashed, bleeding heart liberal on the Supreme Court.
But it’s important to step back, take a [...]
Tags: Arizona·Immigration·John McCain·racism
She Is A Real American
May 15th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law School, Law and Justice, Politics, Supreme Court
I could not support more strongly the idea that we need as much diversity as possible on the Supreme Court, and not just along the race/gender/religion/sexual orientation axes that we normally talk about. I understand that it’s difficult to get a cross-section of America on a nine-member body, but any time the president has an [...]
Tags: Bill O'Reilly·Dahlia Lithwick·diversity·Elena Kagan·Ivy League·Kathleen Parker·Paul Waldman·real America·Ruth Bader Ginsburg·Supreme Court·Tea Parties·white men