Tag Archives: Supreme Court

If Protect Marriage’s emergency motion to stay the overturn of Prop 8 is denied by the Ninth Circuit Court, they are expected to immediately appeal to the Supreme Court. The justice assigned to hear cases from the Ninth is swing voter Anthony Kennedy. Interestingly, as the clock ticks down on Judge Walker’s stay extension, Justice Kennedy will be in Hawaii …

Elena Kagan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate this afternoon in a largely partisan vote of 63-37. Kagan becomes the fourth woman to sit on the Supreme Court, despite the ranting protestations of virtually all anti-gay groups, especially the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who testified against Kagan before Congress. Two solid wins for the good guys in two days! …

“It’s like an armed robber who breaks into a house at night. The homeowners are gun owners and the husband, with a cocked, laser-beam-sited, large-caliber gun in his hands, has the element of surprise over the dangerous intruder. They fear for their lives. But now, imagine that instead of shooting the bad guy, the homeowner turns on bright lights, and …

“If President Obama can’t have a lifetime term, then he knows the next best thing is nominating Elena Kagan to one. She shares the President’s disgust for traditional morality, free speech, the military, individual liberty, unborn children, constitutional fidelity, and all things religious. “It was her rabid pro-homosexual views that led her to restrict military recruitment on Harvard Law School’s …

“Ms. Kagan seems to reject both forms of absolutism. Civil rights, she implies, are important, but so is judicial modesty, and a sensible judge balances the two. A sensible judge can say something like, ‘Same-sex marriage may indeed be a civil right, but not all civil rights demand immediate judicial intervention, and other important interests militate against imposing this one …

“I can’t stand atheists. And I plan to do something about them. Thankfully, the U.S. Supreme Court has given me a powerful tool to use in my war against the godless. Earlier this week, the Court ruled that a public university may require all student organizations to admit any student as a voting member or officer. The decision applies even …

The state funeral for Sen. Robert Byrd has delayed Family Research Council head Tony Perkins’ testimony at Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing. But Good As You has the text of Perkins’ planned remarks. An excerpt: Her own statements make obvious that Elena Kagan would strike down any marital statute – including the federal Defense of Marriage Act – which …

Kagan seems to be charming even the asshats.

Considering that she will likely be hearing the Proposition 8 case in the next couple of years, Elena Kagan had to pull her punches when asked about states’ rights and same-sex marriage.

Definitely the oddest moment of the day.

At her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, today nominee Elena Kagan strongly stated her continuing opposition to DADT, much to the annoyance of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). Later Kagan told Sessions that “One thing I do know is that my politics would be, must be, have to be completely separate from my judging.”

The wackos at the poorly punctuated Pray In Jesus Name Project have launched a fax campaign to oppose the Supreme Court confirmation of Elena Kagan. And look who they’ve hired. Chaplain Klingenschmitt has contracted with a team of investigative journalists including Brian Camenker, Amy Contrada and Peter LaBarbera to investigate and report breaking news about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. …

“The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 ruling, now says that no university can give its imprimatur to discriminatory organizations if that university has an ‘all-comers’ policy of requiring every group to accept every membership applicant. In this case, the Court is suggesting that orthodox Judeo-Christian teaching against homosexual conduct is untenable on America ‘s university campuses. This is a grave …

Wow. The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Vatican, which was attempting to shield itself from child molestation lawsuits in the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider whether the Vatican has legal immunity over the sexual abuse of minors by priests in the United States, allowing a lawsuit filed in 2002 to go …

In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court has ruled that California’s public universities can deny recognition and funding to a Christian legal club that denied membership to gay students. The court turned away an appeal from the Christian Legal Society, which sued to get funding and recognition from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law. The CLS requires …

Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin today. And on the list of witnesses is Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, who will presumably demand to know if Kagan is a dirty “softball player.” Here’s the list of minority witnesses (SCOTUS-speak for those opposed to confirmation), all of whom are scheduled to appear later this week. Robert Alt, Senior Fellow, …

The U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled that anti-gay activists in Washington state MUST make public the names on Referendum 71. Protect Marriage wanted to keep the names secret, claiming they feared retribution from “violent homofascists.” The ruling (PDF) was 8-1, with Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting. Justices ruled in a case called Doe V. Reed. They heard oral arguments in …

Duncan Osbourne of Gay City News has uncovered some troubling history from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. From Osbourne’s blog, Herd & Scene: Despite knowing that religious freedom laws could invalidate state and local anti-discrimination statutes that protect bisexual, lesbian, transgender, and gay taxpayers, Elena Kagan, a nominee to the US Supreme Court, championed such laws in her later years …