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Thomas's ongoing ethics problem, and Chris Murphy's potential solution
U.S. Supreme Court, Wikimedia Commons The New York Times provided a great journalistic service in its detailed report of the friendship between Justice Clarence Thomas and Texas real estate magnate and...
View ArticleKoch/ALEC Cabal - a Smoking Gun for financial connections and control...
Many have fought long and hard to prove connections between Charles and David Koch and the various Conservative Right Wing groups, organizations, foundations and Main Stream Media outlets. Hours and...
View ArticleWhy Your SCOTUS Threats Won’t Work to GOTV
Lately, we have been hearing a lot of this:“Why vote!? It’s the Supreme Court, stupid!”NO, it WAS the Supreme Court, stupid. I base that off of the simple fact that Democrats helped immensely to create...
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Justice Scalia briefing papers: Right-wing blogs
Justice Antonin Scalia Quite possibly the most depressing spectacle of three days of Supreme Court arguments on the Affordable Care Act was the very apparent fact that Justice Antonin Scalia gets his...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Judicial Filibuster
In the aftermath of another politically charged week of Supreme Court arguments, there seems to be some reason to wonder why we don't just give up the ghost and list (D) or (R) after the name of each...
View ArticleA Pledge! A Pledge! I Want a Pledge!
To all Democrats running in the November, 2012 election to serve in the House of Representatives of the 113th Congress of the United States of America, I require that you sign onto the following...
View ArticleTo the Five Lawless Fanatics on the Supreme Court: All You're Deciding is...
There are no longer any surprises in the nihilism and depravity of the "American" conservative, because they proved a long time ago that bottomless moral and ethical freefall was both the root cause...
View ArticleThe Political Court: How Did We Get Here?
If it seemed to you as though certain Supreme Court justices were injecting politics into their questions during last month's high-stakes oral arguments in the Obamacare case, you're not alone... and...
View ArticleHow John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision
Jeffrey Toobin writes in the current issue of The New Yorker about Money Unlimited: how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision. Toobin's article explains how Roberts, by...
View ArticleBREAKING: Supreme Court Releases 4 Decisions
None of them were about the Patient Protection & Affordable Health Care Act.Today's opinion dump:Southern Union Co. v. United StatesKnox v. Service EmployeesDorsey v. United StatesFCC v. Fox...
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Alito, the hypocrite
States' rights for me, but not for thee. (Reuters) It's bad enough that Justice Alito is wrong so often, but it's worse that he doesn't even pretend to have any semblance of consistency. Here he is,...
View ArticleDespite a Failed Nomination, Robert Bork's Legacy Lives On at the Supreme Court
Robert Bork may not be a sitting justice, but he has managed to leave his mark on the high court and will have great influence in a Romney Administration.Written by Jessica Mason Pieklo forRH Reality...
View ArticleJustice Alito's Citizens United Rationalization Tour
Just in time for Thanksgiving!Justice Samuel "Not True" Alito is back on the Citizens United Is Awesome!™ tour.Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is defending the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens...
View ArticleLife Begins at Incorporation
Legislation for the public financing of presidential candidates in the U.S. was first proposed in 1907. In his State of the Union Address that year, President Theodore Roosevelt recommended public...
View ArticleProp 8 Likely to Be Repealed Narrowly; Court to Hear DOMA Today
It is never wise to predict U.S. Supreme Court decisions on oral arguments, or else Obamacare would have been repealed. Based on the Justices’ line of questioning, however, it appears that they will...
View ArticleI rarely say this, but Maureen Dowd is a must-read!
Her New York Times column is appropriately titled as Courting Cowardice, because she nails several of the Justices on their apparent reluctance to seize or even recognize the historical moment before...
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Jon Stewart blasts right-wing arguments against same-sex marriage
Last night, Jon Stewart laid into the arguments against same-sex marriage made by the conservative lawyers and Supreme Court Justices in the Prop. 8 and DOMA cases.But unfortunately for gay marriage...
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The most pro-business Supreme Court in modern history
The two most pro-business justices in modern history. Surprise: It's the current one! Thus far, this term has proved to be no exception, with a 6-1 win rate by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Last month,...
View ArticleThe Divine Right of Judges
Sometimes it's a little disconcerting to realize that an idea you thought was obvious may actually be ahead of its time - or that the people around you, whom you respect, may be behind the times. Such...
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U.S. Constitution Survey De-Teabagged
A week or two ago I got in the mail from a Hillsdale College its survey on the U.S. Constitution, and found it to have a misleading, teabag bent. So, I edited it for relevance and clarity. (Hillsdale's...
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