Alito and Spousal Notification
Much has been made about Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito’s opinion in which he believed it to be Constitutional to require a married woman to inform her husband before she had an abortion. Glenn Sacks writes an op/ed in today’s LA Times lambasting all us “hysterical” women who kinda like our reproductive rights, and claiming [...]
...read moreFinal Exit
This post by a long-time friend of mine details her experience going to a fundamentalist Christian church for their “haunted house.” The local White Horse (heh) Christian Center makes very clear why liberal and progessive thinking makes the baby Jesus cry. It’s all about “choice.” A ghoul steps out of the shadows and proceeds to [...]
...read moreIt’s Ok if He’s OUR Activist Judge
From guestblogger Thomas: Judge Sam Alito, or “Scalito” (because he’s at least as conservative as Scalia) has gotten a lot of press since his nomination. Roundup links are on every political blog, and I won’t try to replicate that here. Rather, I want to focus on one aspect of Scalito that I find troubling. The [...]
...read moreScalito: Day 2
While I don’t want to turn this into ScalitoBlog, it may well be in the coming days. The latest round-up of Alito’s spotty record comes from the Washington Post opinion pages, where University of Chicago law and political science professor Cass Sunstein details the nominee’s problems with civil rights, workers rights, immigration, and criminal defendants. [...]
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