Stay Classy, Sam Alito
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 4th, 2008 at 3:56 pmI can’t help but be confident in the impartiality of the judiciary system when Supreme Court justices go around ragging on Vice President-elects:
At a…
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Evangelical Christian Gays Looking For Long-Term Compatability are Now Covered Once They Fill Out That Weird Personality Test
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pmYou probably know eHarmony.com. Their commercials are everywhere. They’re the dating service that promotes itself based on compatibility and long-term commitment. They’re also notorious for…
Should Convicted Felons Be Allowed to Serve in Congress?
By Jessica Hillyard - Nov 19th, 2008 at 10:52 amI was baffled when I first learned that Sen. Ted Stevens, the newly defeated seven-term incumbent Senator from Alaska, could continue to serve in the…
Obama on the Supreme Court
By Kay Steiger - Nov 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pmThe LA Times had a speculative piece this weekend on who President-elect Barack Obama would choose to nominate for the Supreme Court if a vacancy…
Navy 1, Whales 0
By Jamie Henn - Nov 12th, 2008 at 4:39 pmNot that I really thought an underwater creature would triumph over the United States military, but today’s Supreme Court decision is still a bummer. The…
Analogy Fail
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 4th, 2008 at 10:49 amIn First Amendment news, the Supreme Court is preparing to consider a case which will decide whether government (at all levels) is required to permit…
This is What Far-right Judges Can Do
By Jesse Singal - Oct 29th, 2008 at 2:42 pmYesterday The New York Times ran an in-depth article by Charlie Savage on the Bush administration’s impact on the nation’s federal appeals courts. The whole…
Chevron Taken to Court in Landmark Case
By Jamie Henn - Oct 28th, 2008 at 11:21 amThe US imports more oil from Nigeria than it does from Iraq. Yet Nigeria, and the myriad human rights and environmental abuses associated with oil…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on “The Lighter Side of the Supreme Court”
By Emily Rutherford - Oct 24th, 2008 at 5:39 pmYesterday, I had the good fortune to hear Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak at my campus. Seemingly everyone I know at Princeton packed…
“Personhood” Wouldn’t Make Abortion Illegal … Yet
By Kay Steiger - Oct 24th, 2008 at 5:03 pmDana Goldstein over at TAPPED points to some ads being run about the Amendment 48 ballot initiative in Colorado–most commonly referred to as the “personhood…
Is the Death Penalty On the Outs?
By Kay Steiger - Oct 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pmOver at Campus Progress today we have an article from Michael Corritore, an editor of the Brown Contemporary (one of our Campus Publications Networks publications),…
Sarah Palin Wants to Amend the Constitution
By Jesse Singal - Oct 20th, 2008 at 1:25 pmVia Think Progress, Sarah Palin on amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage:
[I]n my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority…
Ohio Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Sec. of State Brunner on Voting Rights
By Kay Steiger - Oct 17th, 2008 at 12:35 pmThe Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner about the status of newly registered voters in Ohio. The state has…
Big News on the Equality Front
By Jesse Singal - Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:16 pmReuters:
The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage on Friday in a victory for gay-rights advocates that will allow couples to marry…
The Significance of Tuesday’s Guantánamo Ruling
By Anabel Lee - Oct 9th, 2008 at 5:10 pmDuring a lecture she gave in mid-September at UC Berkeley entitled “The Mystery of Guantánamo Bay,” former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse…
