The lead article in Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine - featured with a big graphic on the cover - asked whether it was time to bring back the death penalty in Massachusetts.Huh?There are a lot of peculiar things about this article. … [Read more...]
GLAD sues to invalidate anti-marriage ballot question
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has filed suit to contest Attorney General and Gov candidate Tom Reilly's certification of the proposed ballot question that would overrule the Supreme Judicial Court's legalization of … [Read more...]
Things to look for in the Alito hearings
As we approach the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito (they begin next Monday), here are a couple of items from his past that you can expect to figure prominently in the questioning. I've added emphasis to … [Read more...]
Abramoff pleads guilty, will cooperate with investigations
2006 is starting off badly for Members of Congress who took money and favors from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Abramoff's attorney today announced that Abramoff has agreed to plead guilty to two criminal charges and also agreed … [Read more...]
Predictions for 2006
OK, here goes. I reserve the right to be totally, embarrassingly, wrong.The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito will be the most contentious since Clarence Thomas and will regularly make the evening … [Read more...]
Bonifaz to speak at out-of-Iraq event in Cambridge 1/7
The After Downing Street coalition is holding an event on January 7, in Cambridge, at which Secretary of State candidate John Bonifaz will speak. Full information on the event, including where to register, is posted on our calendar … [Read more...]
2006 open thread
Happy New Year everyone! We'll be posting predictions for 2006 soon. If you've got some of your own, or anything else you'd care to opine on for the coming year, drop it in the comments. … [Read more...]
A tale of two leaks
(Got a new verse, or an improvement on what's here? Drop it in the comments.)There once was an agent named Plamewho Karl Rove considered "fair game."So Bob Novak, our hero,showed integrity zeroby shamelessly outing her name.Once … [Read more...]
Why Alito? Here’s an interesting theory
Professor Sandy Levinson has a very interesting, and possibly quite accurate, post up on Balkinization as to why Bush chose to nominate Samuel Alito, rather than other equally qualified jurists who probably would have been easier to confirm … [Read more...]
Don’t forget to register!
If you want to be eligible to be a delegate at the Democratic convention in June, you MUST be registered as a Democrat in your city or town by the end of December. It's really easy - you just trot down to your city or town hall and … [Read more...]
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