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 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...]
Kennedy/Baucus Plan…. A Debaucle!
It seems to me that the champion of the working family in the Senate should be working to cut out the middle men and helping to save poor and working class people money instead of helping to line the pockets of the shareholders and … [Read more...]
“Auto-tune the news”
I think this is genius. Watch for the appearance of Rep. Markey, who seems to be borrowing Theo Epstein's old duds. ... and it actually reminds me a bit of Steve Reich. … [Read more...]
Welcome back, Jay Severin!
Hey, awesome news from WTKK (email, no link)! "We have had conversations with Jay Severin over the past several weeks about his hurtful, inappropriate remarks. He understands that we will not accept this type of commentary on our … [Read more...]
Judge Sotomayor and the “wise Latina” remark
[S]eminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the … [Read more...]
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