Archive for the ‘Activist Judges!’ Category
Up Close and Personal
Over at Salon, Mark Oppenheimer has a longish, interesting piece on Maggie Gallagher, NRO hack, NOM founder and arguably the most prominent opponent of marriage equality in the US. I read it because the thing that has always puzzled me most about the gay marriage controversy is why those who oppose it are so convinced [...]
February 9, 2012
· 
Betty Cracker · 
68 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Assholes, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Politics, Republican Stupidity
Birthers Stuck On Endless Loop
Whether you believe that the Republicans will self-destruct in November or not, the Birther component of the anti-Obama campaign will never, never end unless the people who continue to spew this nonsense are actually made to pay a price. A judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta for a hearing [...]
January 22, 2012
· Zandar · 124 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Assholes, Black Jimmy Carter, Flash Mob of Hate, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Serenity Now!, We Are All Mayans Now
Fire Walker Chronicles: The GOP’s Signature Move
The massive political game of chicken that is the recall effort against Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker (working title? Recall: The Electoral Opera) entered a new phase as former GOP State Senator and Republican-friendly judge J. Mac Davis ruled in favor of the Governor as expected, saying now that the burden of vetting the recall [...]
January 6, 2012
· Zandar · 28 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Kochsuckers, Republican Venality
Keep talking, Charlie
Last spring: After Charlie White admitted to voting last year in a precinct in which he did not live during a strange 13-minute talk with reporters on his way into court Friday, his lawyer had a piece of advice for him. “Shut up,” Dennis Zahn told his client. He grabbed White by the arm and [...]
December 23, 2011
· Kay · 54 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!
Plain language
Really happy to see this:(pdf) COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF Plaintiffs Ruthelle Frank, Carl Ellis, Justin Luft, Dartric Davis, Barbara Oden, Sandra Jashinski, Pamela Dukes, Anthony Sharp, Anthony Judd, Anna Shea, Matthew Dearing, Max Kligman, Samantha Meszaros, Steve Kvasnicka, Sarah Lahti, Domonique Whitehurst by his mother and next friend Sabrena Putnam, and Edward Hogan [...]
December 14, 2011
· Kay · 79 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, An Unexamined Scandal, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Election 2012
Market solves health care problem
Maybe they should have chosen someone who had been in business a little longer? YOUNGSTOWN, Fla.—The woman chosen to represent the legal challenge to the Obama administration’s health-care overhaul filed for bankruptcy in September after her business failed, a move that could pose problems for the high-profile lawsuit. The suit, brought by 26 states and [...]
December 6, 2011
· Kay · 141 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Domestic Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything, Uncategorized
Time For The Demo-Kvetch Party Again
Wouldn’t be a news cycle without a “Congressional Dems are worried about X for 2012” story, concern X in this case being the Supreme Court’s promised legal review of the PPACA. Democrats on Capitol Hill are worried that the Supreme Court will rule against President Obama’s healthcare reform law. Over the last couple weeks, congressional [...]
November 15, 2011
· Zandar · 35 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Democratic Cowardice
PPACA goes to court
Here we go: Setting the stage for a historic constitutional confrontation over federal power, the Supreme Court on Monday granted three separate cases on the constitutionality of the new federal health care law, and set aside 5 1/2 hours — probably in March — for oral argument. The Court, however, did not grant all of [...]
November 14, 2011
· Kay · 135 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!
“A permanent IED in the laws regarding campaign finance”
I thought I had a pretty fair grasp of the history of America’s first Gilded Age (due to a life-long fondness for Mark Twain, Finley Peter Dunne, and Teddy Roosevelt), but Charlie Pierce has taught me something I did not know in his post on the proposed anti-Citizens-United amendment: Left to work its dark magic, [...]
November 3, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 70 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Activist Judges!, C.R.E.A.M., Our Failed Political Establishment
Another proud day for conservatives
No one could have predicted: Dorothy Cooper is 96 but she can remember only one election when she’s been eligible to vote but hasn’t. The retired domestic worker was born in a small North Georgia town before women had the right to vote. She began casting ballots in her 20s after moving to Chattanooga for [...]
October 6, 2011
· Kay · 41 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2008, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques
SCOTUS and the ACA: Do We Set Our Hair on Fire?
From the Washington Post, “Justice Dept. asks Supreme Court to review health-care law“: The Obama administration moved aggressively Wednesday for Supreme Court review of the 2010 health-care act, making it likely a constitutional ruling on the president’s signature and most controversial domestic achievement will come in the thick of the presidential campaign. The administration said [...]
September 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 77 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
Good thing we hung onto this law, we might need it
Just wanted to put this together: 2006: WASHINGTON, June 20 — House Republican leaders today abruptly canceled a planned vote to renew the Voting Rights Act after a rank-and-file rebellion by lawmakers who say the civil rights measure unfairly singles out Southern states and promotes multi-lingual ballots. But lawmakers critical of the bill mutinied in [...]
September 24, 2011
· Kay · 61 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Election 2012
Disarray in Cleveland
I went to the state party Women’s Caucus meeting in Cleveland yesterday. Jennifer Brunner was there, and I finally broke down and purchased an actual camera last week, so I took her picture: She was very excited for me, that I had a new camera. I think you can see that in her face. The [...]
September 18, 2011
· Kay · 39 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Domestic Affairs, Election 2011, Election 2012
Another unimportant, illegitimate legal… event
We’ll see if this gets breathless over-the-top coverage. I doubt it: The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a challenge to President Obama’s signature health law on Thursday, deciding that the plaintiffs in the case didn’t have standing to contest the legislation. Two of the three judges determined that lawsuits by Virginia Attorney General [...]
September 8, 2011
· Kay · 53 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!
Not here or there, not anywhere, not in a house, not with a mouse
From Demos: In a victory for voting rights, a decision issued September 7, 2011 by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has denied certification to a proposed ballot initiative that would impose restrictive requirements for photo ID in Massachusetts elections. The decision rests on Article 9 of the Massachusetts Constitution, which guarantees “the freedom of elections.” [...]
September 8, 2011
· Kay · 30 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Corrections, Domestic Affairs, Election 2011, Election 2012, Fuck The Poor
