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Sarah Palin Is Ever So Pissed
Read The Obamacare Ruling
Here’s the full ruling.
Read More »Breitbarters Get It Wrong
Jim Hoft is the guy that skulked around Netroots with his “Breitbart Is Here” nonsense. Snicker.
Read More »SCOTUS Upholds Obamacare
It’s a long and complicated ruling but the early word is that most of the Affordable Health Care Act has been upheld. The media is twisting itself into knots over the ruling and there are multiple conflicting interpretations. However it shakes down, this is HUGE victory for the president. Stand by for more…
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court Slaps Down Arizona’s Racist Immigration Law
It’s not all good news: “The court let stand the part of the law that requires law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of people they stop and suspect of being undocumented.”
Read More »SCOTUS Slaps Down TV Cursing Law
The Supreme Court today unanimously ruled in favor of broadcasters who say they are unfairly punished for “isolated moments” of obscenity and profanity that slip onto the airwaves. In an 8-0 vote, justices concluded the Federal Communications Commission cannot enforce its current policies against “fleeting” expletives and nudity on over-the-air programs, both live and scripted. The agency had levied hefty …
Read More »GOP To Ask SCOTUS To Rule On DOMA
House Republicans say they plan to ask the Supreme Court to overturn last month’s federal appeals court ruling that struck down a portion of DOMA. Chris Geidner at MetroWeekly: That potential Supreme Court case, BLAG [House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group] details, is Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the appellate case decided by the U.S. Court of …
Read More »Billionaire Sheldon Adelson: I Will Spend $100 Million To Elect Mitt Romney
Forbes reports today that billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has vowed to spend $100 million of his own money to get Mitt Romney elected. Maybe even more. Adelson, who has built Las Vegas Sands into an global casino empire, will do “whatever it takes” to defeat Obama, this source says. And given that Adelson is worth $24.9 billion–and told Forbes …
Read More »Richard Socarides And Wayne Besen Discuss Marriage Equality And SCOTUS
Richard Socarides On DOMA Ruling
“It now looks like it will be this case, rather than the more famous Perry case being litigated by Ted Olson and David Boies, that will reach the Supreme Court first. It’s a bit of inside baseball, but this is the result favored by the old guard of gay-rights litigators who prefer a more incremental strategy of Supreme Court review. …
Read More »Teabagger Performs Racism Song Outside Supreme Court SB 1070 Deliberations
Pelosi: Obamacare Will Be Upheld
SCOTUS: Strip Searches Always Legal
By a 5-4 vote, today the Supreme Court ruled that it is constitutional for prisoners to be strip searched for any petty crime. And even when you haven’t committed a crime at all. The court ruled against a New Jersey man who complained that strip searches in two county jails violated his civil rights. Albert Florence was forced to undress …
Read More »GOP Celebrates Obamacare Battle
The Cost Of Severing The Mandate
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Read More »Things Look Bad At SCOTUS
Crazy Eyes Tweets From SCOTUS
TODAY: Teabagger Rally At SCOTUS
Koch Brothers astroturf group Americans For Prosperity are sponsoring today’s massive teabagger rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, which yesterday began considering the lawsuit to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Tea Partiers plan to keep the heat up on the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow at a 1 p.m. Capitol Hill rally as the court enters its second day of deliberations …
Read More »SCOTUS Lets Pro-Trans Ruling Stand
The Supreme Court today refused to hear the appeal of a ruling that commands prisons to provide proper medical attention to transgender inmates. Lambda Legal reports: There are particular moments in the movement for transgender equality when we consider it a great victory when a court refuses to hear a case—and today is one of those moments. The U.S. Supreme …
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