U.S. Supreme Court Legalizes Strip Search For Any Offense
Make sure you don’t jaywalk, ride a bike without a bell, protest anything, or otherwise upset a police officer, because the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that you can be forced to... The post U.S....
View ArticleBroccoli Set To Scupper Obamacare
Can you believe that the United States Supreme Court is poised to throw out President Obama’s signature health care legislation based on a fear of being made to eat broccoli? I mean,... The post...
View ArticleSupreme Court Upholds Main Part Of Obamacare
The U.S. Supreme Court has finally decided to uphold the critical part of President Obama’s controversial health care law. Expect some Tea Party fireworks just in time for Independence Day next...
View ArticleAntonin Scalia On Bush vs. Gore: ‘Get Over It, He Would Have Lost Anyway’
Piers Morgan at least pushes U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia a little, but if you've ever read the work of Greg Palast, you know it's patently untrue that George W. Bush would have won the 2000 U.S....
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court To Rule On Gay Marriage
Will the Roberts-led Supreme Court dare to stop the gay marriage juggernaut? This may be the week we find out, per this report in the LA Times: After two decades in which... The post U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleAn All Female U.S. Supreme Court
Proving, perhaps, that she takes extreme, radical positions on important issues, Justice Ruth Ginsburg says she wants an all female Supreme Court. From CBS: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hopes to see...
View ArticleSupreme Court Strikes Down Key Part of Defense of Marriage Act
The U.S. Supreme Court is making headlines today, first of all with it’s 5-4 decision regarding the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. The story is breaking everywhere, this excerpt from the Chicago... The...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Opens Up Federal Elections To Richest Bidders
Make no mistake, the US Supreme Court’s decision to remove limits on monetary donations to candidates for federal political office is a game changer. The New York Times editorial board weighs in... The...
View ArticleBeyond The ‘McCutcheon’ Decision
Everyone’s taking about the Supreme Court’s perfectly predictable “Citizens United 2” McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission decision. It’s what we are NOT talking about that worries me....
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Updates Legal Understanding of Privacy Rights
The United States Supreme Court has banned warrantless cell phone searches, effectively updating the legal framework of privacy rights to keep up with 21st century technology. This report from the...
View ArticleHobby Lobby Ruling: Employers Don’t Have to Cover Birth Control
It’s a kick in the teeth to the promoters of “ObamaCare,” but this narrow limitation of the Affordable Care Act is really just a minor hiccup compared to the large number of... The post Hobby Lobby...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Billion-Dollar Mistake
Anyone who’s been a regular visitor to this page knows that we deplore the Pay 2 Play political system in place in the United States. Much of the blame for this must... The post The Supreme Court’s...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court To Rule On Texas Confederate Flag License Plates
Non-Americans (and probably Un-Americans) must think the fuss over the display of the Confederate flag is peculiarly parochial, but here it’s still front-page news at AP via Yahoo News (as an aside,......
View ArticleThe 10 Most Wild Lines From Antonin Scalia’s Extreme Dissent Over Gay Marriage
Well done Mother Jones for picking apart Antonin Scalia’s furious dissent in the Supreme Court’s landmark decision legalizing gay marriage: In a 5-4 decision penned by Justice Anthony Kennedy and...
View Article5 Reasons to Kill the Death Penalty
SCOTUS ruled last week that lethal injection, aka death by torture aka being burned alive, is totally legal and not at all a violation of a person’s 8th amendment rights. We’ll get... The post 5...
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