Showing posts with label Supreme Court of the United States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supreme Court of the United States. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Are Gay-Rights Rulings Spurring Change or Frustrating Public Opinion? - Law Blog - WSJ
Image via WikipediaAre Gay-Rights Rulings Spurring Change or Frustrating Public Opinion? - Law Blog - WSJAnd from Time's piece:
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2032721,00.html#ixzz16a5CDRbq"Ever since Brown v. Board of Education, it's been the underlying view of political liberals that victories in court will give them the social changes they feel are needed, and do it faster [than waiting for change to happen on its own]," Professor Mike Klarman of Harvard Law School tells TIME. "But such rulings have often brought significant political backlashes."
Monday, November 22, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage
Image via Wikipedia"In the same-sex marriage cases heading to the Supreme Court, both sides typically emphasize fundamental rights arguments. Supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage both invoke what they see as the fundamental right to marry, though they disagree about whether the right to marry should be conceptualized in historically specific, narrow, and concrete terms or in more general, broad, and abstract terms. For opponents of same-sex marriage, the right to marry is specifically, narrowly, and concretely heterosexual. For supporters, the right to marry is more general, broad, and abstract and it is capacious enough to permit or require the legalization of same-sex marriage. If Michael H. provides us with any clues about what Justice Kennedy will do when and if the Court considers California’s Proposition 8 or the U.S. federal government’s Defense of Marriage Act, supporters of same-sex marriage may have reasons to be hopeful."Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage
Monday, November 8, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Journalist gives his support to Rhonda Mangus
Image by wallyg via Flickrhttp://tonawanda-news.com/opinion/x204466254/LEFFLER-Parades-primaries-and-some-support A seasoned journalist who has worked for major papers and radio networks has given his support to Rhonda Mangus in an editorial which appears in the Tonawanda News. (see link).
Mangus is the New York Mom of a gay teen son who has been battling the high courts of New York State for the past 5 years.
Kudos to Scott Leffler for his fine character and professionalism!
Monday, August 16, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
From Salon.com: Top GOP calls Kagan "dangerous" nominee for SCOTUS
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling Elena Kagan "a dangerous, progressive, political" nominee for the Supreme Court.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is warning fellow senators to "be careful" about backing President Barack Obama's nominee, who's expected to be confirmed easily next week.
He says Americans won't forgive senators who vote to "impose a legal progressive activist legislator from the bench upon them."
Sessions' latest and strongest speech denouncing Kagan comes shortly after Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine became the fourth Republican to announce she'd break with her party to support Obama's nominee.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Supreme Court Denies Gay Marriage in NJ
Image via WikipediaNew Jersey Supreme Court will not hear six same-sex couple's cases:
SOURCE: Atlantic City Buzz, The Examiner
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Rep. Alan Grayson of FLA mocks Tea Party
From the American Spectator
In a lunch speech to Netroots Nation, Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida mocked Tea Party protesters, Glenn Beck, and Clarence Thomas, and promised another New Deal.
Grayson opened his speech sarcastically, as if he were addressing a Tea Party.
"Greetings angry protesters," he said. "Let me see the tea bags dangling from your skulls. Let us genuflect toward Glenn Beck's TV studio. And now a moment of silence to show our sorrow that Democrats passed health care reform for all America."
Grayson has become a darling of progressives for making inflammatory comments about conservatives, but this has left him more vulnerable back in his home district, which is much more moderate.
"Let me tell you what every election is about," he explained. "Every election is about 309 million Americans asking the question: ‘What are you going to do for me?' And that's fair. That's what democracy all about."
He went on to outline an agenda for "working people" that included making it easier to unionize, and guaranteed paid sick leave and paid vacation.
"We need to have paid vacation," he declared. "Why? Because we are not slaves."
More relevant to this election, he said that, "People want to know what the Democrats are going to do for them, and people are afraid of what Republicans are going to do to them."
During his talk he took a jab at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
"We promise people a workplace where they won't have to face discrimination, unless, of course, the EEOC is being run by people like Clarence Thomas," he said.
In closing his speech, he announced that, "What we're promising people is a new New Deal."
Friday, April 16, 2010
CBS Rumor: Candidate for Supreme Court Justice is Gay?
Obama White House rips CBS News for rumor that Justice Candidate is Lesbian
CBS News was taken to task on Thursday by the Obama White House for publishing an online column by a blogger who posted about Solicitor General Elena Kagan, widely viewed as a leading candidate for the Supreme Court. In the blog post, it was asserted that Kagan was a lesbian, and "openly gay".
Ben Domenech, a former Bush administration aide and Republican Senate staffer, wrote that President Obama would "please" much of his base by picking the "first openly gay justice." An administration official, who asked not to be identified discussing personal matters, said Kagan is not a lesbian.
CBS initially refused to pull the posting, prompting Anita Dunn, a former White House communications director who is working with the administration on the high court vacancy, to say that CBS was enabling a plagarist and that their journalistic standards were dropping. She also state that the lesbian rumor fed on old stereotypes about career women who remain single.
The network deleted the posting Thursday night after Domenech, the blogger, admitted to them that he was merely repeating a rumor.
The incendiary nature of how a Supreme Court nominee can feed the rumor mill was aptly illustrated by the incident. Policies against "outing" gays or reporting on the sex lives of public officials unless related to their public duties are adhered to by most major news venues.
This year, a flurry arose over the outing of Supreme Court Justice Vaughn Walker, raising questions about his impartiality as he presided over the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco's high court. Any nominee for supreme court justice, or even a potential nominee, has the power to start the rumor mill turning.
"Still Closeted"
Domenech later added an update to the post: "I have to correct my text here to say that Kagan is apparently still closeted -- odd, because her female partner is rather well known in Harvard circles."
Dan Farber, editor in chief of CBSNews.com, said that initially that the blog piece should stand, as it was an opinion piece.
He changed his mind about deleting the blog post after receiving an e-mail from Domenech, which the blogger also sent to The Washington Post admitting the assertion was speculation and apologized to Ms. Kagan.
Domenech said that the naming of an openly gay justice would be an important cultural moment and would necessarily open the door to political discussion.
Domenech is editor of the Web site , New Ledger, from which the CBS column was reprinted and acts as editor of the City, a religion-oriented publication of Houston Baptist University, as well.
Domenech was hired by the Post as a conservative blogger in 2006. He resigned three days after due to plagiarism allegations that made by liberal Web sites. The sites found signs of plagiarism in a review written by Domenech for National Review Online and in early writings for the College of William & Mary's student newspaper.
Marc Ambinder who writes for The Atlantic wrote Monday "a baffling whisper campaign" about Kagan "among both gay rights activists and social conservatives. . . .", adding that the rumors are so "pervasive" that many believed they must contain some truth.
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