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Showing posts with label Supreme Court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supreme Court. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2020

LIVE: Confirmation Hearing for Supreme Court Nominee Judge Amy Barrett

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by Nomad T oday is the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee Confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barre...
Monday, September 24, 2018

How the Kavanaugh Fiasco is a Test of the Ideals of the Women's March and MeToo

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by Nomad Despite the worldwide marches and the Me Too movement, the Kavanaugh confirmation debacle has shown in stark terms how litt...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Capital Punishment: Another Example of How Ted Cruz is On the Wrong Side of Public Opinion

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by Nomad Candidate Cruz's long-held support for capital punishment may have helped build his career but today, given the shift in pub...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Have Republican Candidates Huckabee and Cruz Just Committed Treason in the Kim Davis Case?

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by Nomad Statements made by two Republican candidates regarding the Kim Davis case may have crossed a line by encouraging rebellion a...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Unitary Executive Theory: How the GOP in Congress is Destroying Cheney's Life Work

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  by Nomad Former vice president Cheney must be watching in dismay as the Republicans in Congress are tearing apart a doctrine that he...
Monday, July 7, 2014

The Best Supreme Court Money Can Buy

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by Nomad The disgrace of the Supreme Court's infatuation with corporations will, unfortunately, leave a stain on American justice lon...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The Long Struggle for Wage Equality for Women and Republican Road Blocks

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by Nomad Wage equality for women has been a long and difficult road, dating the Roosevelt era and before. Down through the years, step by...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Law Professor's Advice: Guilty or Innocent, Never Speak to Police.. Ever

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by Nomad If there's one thing that most defense lawyers will tell you, it is this: Whether you are guilty or innocent, never dare to ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Are GOP Governors who Reject Medicaid Expansion Violating their Residents' Civil Rights?

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by Nomad If the first duty of government is to protect its citizens then isn't access to health care included in that idea?  Are th...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Junk Science? Questions about Expert Testimony in Michigan's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Trial

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by Nomad The testimony of the state's expert witness challenging Michigan's same-sex marriage took an amusing turn when he admitte...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Recess Appointments and Partisan Obstructionism: Two Sides of the Same Coin

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by Nomad This week the Supreme Court is reviewing a lower court's decision which declared unconstitutional President Obama's use o...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Unions and Citizens United: What Romney Doesn't Want You to Know

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by Nomad I n a desperate attempt to find some issue that he can talk about- apart from foreign policy, Medicare,  gay marriage, socia...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Runaway SuperPACs and the Devolution of Mitt Romney

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by Nomad I n yet another case of an "evolving" opinion, Republican Mitt Romney has once again betrayed the high-minded rh...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

The Long Con Continues: Eric Cantor and Mitt Romney’s Shameful Lies about the Vote to Repeal

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by Nomad F ollowing the news that the Supreme Court had declared the health care reforms, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor , Republican c...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Mainstream Media Misreports Supreme Court ACA Decision

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by Nomad Finally, Americans got some good news today. (At least, Obama did.) Against expectations, the Supreme Court ruled that the ...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

When the Supreme Court Struck Back at Roosevelt 2/2

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NRA (National Recovery Administration) member: We Do Our Part (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) by Nom...
Friday, June 22, 2012

When the Supreme Court Struck Back at Roosevelt 1/2

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by Nomad In the past I have written about Roosevelt’s forgotten battle with the Supreme Court in 1933 but I’d like to return to this lost ...
Monday, April 9, 2012

MEK and the Hypocrisy of the Anti-Terrorism War-Mongers

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by Nomad John Bolton P ulitzer Prize -winning  journalist Seymour Hersh , writing for the New Yorker, has uncovered evidence t...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Strip Search: the Supreme Court's Attack on the Fourth Amendment

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by Nomad I n yet another questionable ruling, the Supreme Court has decided in a 5-4 vote that police departments have every right to d...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Supreme Court Reviews Obama's Health Care Reform: A Question of the Character of A Nation

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by Nomad A s the Supreme Court begins a long review of the health reform plan with a final decision sometime around June, many on ...