What bothered me, personally, the most about the draft platform is that while it had plenty to say about "tough on crime" and law enforcement, the Draft Platform says nothing about access to justice, nothing about an independent judiciary, … [Read more...]
Archives for May 31, 2009
Barbara Anderson — supporting the Governor’s reforms
sort of, but not his revenue proposals. (Or anybody else's for that matter.) Here she is expaining it all to Keller after the ad. I miss working at the State House with Barbara to tell the truth: She's an honest, kind, principled, … [Read more...]
What Judge Sotomayor Didn’t Say
Although Judge Sotomayor did not make the claim, it's long been accepted in the "diversity business" that occupying a less advantaged status in society can make an individual more insightful than the norm. The reason is simple: The … [Read more...]
Sotomayor ruled against race discrimination plaintiffs nearly 90% of the time
As I've said many times, if you really want to know what's going on with all things Supreme Court-related, your first stop should always be SCOTUSblog. Their latest work conclusively refutes any notion that Sonia Sotomayor routinely … [Read more...]
RosenGate continues
Here's Rosen's defense, as reported by NPR: By writing about her legal intellect, Rosen tells NPR, he was exploring whether she rose to the level of judicial and tactical brilliance one might want in a Supreme Court Justice. Rosen says he … [Read more...]
New Yorker has a must-read article on health care reform
When you look across the spectrum from Grand Junction to McAllen-and the almost threefold difference in the costs of care-you come to realize that we are witnessing a battle for the soul of American medicine. Somewhere in the United States … [Read more...]