Artist – Pat Bagley In other news, the state of Wisconsin reportedly sank to 44th in the...
Category - Supreme Court
The Seven Worst Things Scalia Has Said About Marriage Equality
Adam Serwer has the list. Here are some highlights of the awfulness: “Flagpole Sitting”...
Literalists
Artist – David Fitzsimmons In other news, at a town hall meeting held yesterday in Arizona...
Two Holy Fathers
Both men dressed in papacy white for the occasion(someone say, “awkward!”), but that...
Audio: Justice Scalia on the Voting Rights Act
via TPM I’ve listened to this several times now and it appears to me that Justice Antonin...
Very Serious Question
With the passage of VAWA yesterday, I wonder if Scalia thinks it’s a “gender...
Supreme Court Set to Resurrect Jim Crow
My Thursday column: In early March of 1857, the Roger B. Taney Supreme Court handed down its...
WTF? Of Course the Voting Rights Act is Still Needed!
There’s a discussion over at The New York Times about whether the Voting Rights Act is still...
God Made A Farmer, Or God Made Monsanto
In Bowman v. Monsanto Co., Vernon Hugh Bowman, a 75-year-old Indiana soybean farmer is...
Here’s Another Reason to Strike Down DOMA
Pentagon officials announced today that the military will soon grant benefits to same-sex couples...
The Long-Term Coup
James Fallows believes the conservative members of the Supreme Court are engaged in a slow motion...
The Metaphorical F-Word
The Supreme Court thankfully decided against the FCC and in favor of allowing "fleeting"...
Marble-Mouthed Hick Says President is Stupid
Chuck Grassley via Twitter: Constituents askd why i am not outraged at PresO attack on supreme...
We're Supposed to Like Judicial Activism
Many liberals, including the president, are attacking the Supreme Court for using judicial review...
Colbert Interviewing John Paul Stevens
This is genius times a thousand. On both sides.
SCOTUS Hammers Another Nail Into Public Financing Coffin
If you are someone who believes publicly financed elections are the best hope for removing special...
Citizens United Shilled for Clarence Thomas
Via Karoli, here's a 1991 news item when Thomas was nominated for the Court. Washington-area...
The Pubic Hair on the Koch
Forgive me, blogging gods, for such an awful (and too easy) headline. Anyways. It's becoming quite...
Release the Kagan!
The Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. Not only is she qualified, but she's...
A Word on the Kagan Situation
You may have noticed that I haven't been covering the Elena Kagan nomination. A couple of reasons...