As a follow-up to my previous posts about Georgia's attempt to pass an unconstitutional voting law, the federal courts have blocked enforcement of Georgia's new attempt at vote suppression electoral reform. The argument seems to be that the new law is no longer a patently...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Once you boil off the contempt for women so surprising in an argument from the forced pregnancy lobby (besides, everyone knows that the most common reason for obtaining an abortion.
Not being a lawyer myself, I am free to fully endorse this method of opinion writing. Sample:Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers,.
The comment thread to this post compels me to add a couple of additional points: Pithlord's slippery slope arguments about the consequences of not providing funding to Catholic hospitals that deny contraception is, I think, specious even by the standards of the genre (at least...
Connoisseurs of world-class, 5-star wingnuttery will be pleased to note the return of Alec Rawls and his lunatic obsession with the shape that hates America. Oh yeah, that's the stuff....and,.
"Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'."I recently took in the new film about the great songwriter (and alma mater of Canada's.
Publius has already addressed the most baffling claim in the latest in Jon Chait's increasingly strained defenses of Joe Lieberman and attacks on evil blogofascists, his argument that Kos et al "believe that any deviation from the party line--except for a few circumscribed instances, such...
While I was away, any number of conservatives who either honestly or passive-aggressively oppose gay marriage tried to sell the idea that the New York Court of Appeals' upholding of.
Nathan and Matt are 100% correct about the badness of the recent decision [actually, I think this is the wrong way of putting it; see update] holding that CleanFlix--a company.
[This article originally appeared in the July 2006 edition of The American Prospect.] The confirmation of two conservative Supreme Court justices and the passage of a draconian abortion ban in South Dakota have again thrown the precarious state of reproductive rights in the United States...
Shorter Ann Althouse: As a feminist, I believe that publicly funded hospitals should be able to deny contraception to women almost as strongly as I believe that Sam Alito should.
Elton summarizes a pathetic pro-Lieberman Los Angeles Times editorial: "It would be a shame if Connecticut voters force a loyal Democrat like Joe Lieberman to run against his own party's.