Tag: Supreme Court
Anti-Gay Supreme Court Argument Claims Marriage Is Only About Children
“The state doesn’t have an interest in love and emotion at all,” Mr. Bursch said. “It’s about binding children to their biological moms and dads.”
Several justices were intensely skeptical of that rationale, noting that many gay couples have children. These justices also seemed unpersuaded by Mr. Bursch’s contention that altering the definition of marriage would harm the institution.
This has to be the weakest argument they could choose. It’s so limiting. It also leads to this argument: If marriage is about “binding children to their biological moms and dads” then should people who do not want children, or cannot have children even be allowed to marry? If this argument is accepted then wouldn’t that redefine marriage, far more than gay marriage? It also merges quite nicely with the Republican’s forced birth-anti birth control platform.
Paula Deen, voting rights and the ‘New South’
People have changed. That seems to be the imputes behind a divided Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act. Some needs to introduce them to Paula Deen.
Supreme Court ACA Watch Open Thread
Today is supposed to be the last day of this Supreme Court session so all of the breathless press vamping waiting on the ACA decision officially turns into lots of breathless punditry sometime after 10AM today. I’m posting this thread for everyone to have a place to start posting your own prognostications and links to people who are doing a good job at discussing the issues involved.
Issue: Supreme Court Nominees
Charles M. Blow has quite an informative column on the importance of electing a President the upcoming Supreme Court nominations.
Looks Like Justice Kagan
The Associated Press is reporting that President Obama will announce the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court at 10AM Monday morning, replacing the retiring John Paul Stevens. Kagan will be the third woman on the Supreme Court, and only the fourth overall.
Pssst…Wanna Buy a Judge?
Ever since the Supreme Court issued its January ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC), lifting the ban on corporate spending on elections, most of the attention has been directed towards how this would effect things like presidential and congressional races. And while there now will certainly be the opportunity for big corporations […]
Breaking: Supreme Court Opens The Floodgates
Instead of fighting amongst ourselves, perhaps we might want to keep our eye on the ball. The long-awaited 5-4 ruling, in the Citizens United v. FEC case, presents advocates of regulation with a major challenge in limiting the flow of corporate money into campaigns, and potentially opens the door for unrestricted amounts of corporate money […]
The Wise Antonin Scalia Speaks
Supreme Court Justice and model for Republican judges Antonin Scalia: In an appearance at the University of Arizona, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia “said he likely would have dissented from the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared school segregation illegal and struck down the system of ‘separate but equal’; public schools,” […]
Sotomayor Confirmation Vote Today
The confirmation vote to make Sonia Sotomayor the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court is expected today. The confirmation is all but inevitable, the only remaining question is what the final vote total will be. Thirty Republicans have announced they are voting no, including Orrin Hatch who has never voted no on a SCOTUS […]
Sotomayor Passes Senate Judiciary Committee
This just in: As expected, the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted mostly along party lines to give a favorable recommendation to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. Her name will now be sent to the full Senate, where she will be confirmed next week. The vote was 13 […]
Final Sotomayor Hearings Open Thread
Highlights from Day 4 (final day) of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
Sotomayor Hearings Day 4 Open Thread
Highlights from day 3 of the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor.
Sotomayor Hearings Day 3 Open Thread
Highlights of questioning from day 2 of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
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