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More on voting rights: This time Scalia
I think that Ruben Bolling has it right in this week’s Tom the Dancing Bug I guess it all depends on your definition of minority.Filed under: Politics, Public Policy, Supreme Court Tagged: Antonin...
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Law and Order: Life imitates art – or is the other way around?
I am a major fan of Law and Order. The original not any of the spin offs. I still like to catch a re-run now and then and particularly like the older ones. Last week a story in the New York Times...
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The Supremes and Gay Marriage
There were wonderful thing said by some of the Justices today, but I want to concentrate on the cartoons. Here are three from the Washington Post. First Pat Oliphant. I love the duck in the corner...
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A question for the Chief Justice
So, Mr. Chief Justice, where did you say you went to law school? That’s what I want to ask Mr. Roberts after yesterday’s hearing on The Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA. Here is the relevant exchange...
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Official end to California’s Prop 8
I woke up this morning to this news from the New York Times Gay Couples Who Sued in California Are Married Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, who have been together for more than 15 years and have four sons,...
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Voting rights: 2013
This Brian McFadden cartoon seemed appropriate for posting as people are Marching on Washington for Jobs and Freedom once again. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has it right in her dissent from the recent...
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Gay rights and the Supremes
Justice Antonin Scalia has made it clear that he is, at best, uncomfortable with the series of decisions made by the Supreme Court on gay rights. Soon after the decisions last June on DOMA and Prop 8,...
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Can we cure Congressional dysfunction?
The pundits are dissecting the results of the local and state elections and speculating on what, if any, effect they will have on the 2014 mid-terms and the 2016 Presidential election. There is plenty...
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Anita Hill and Sandra Fluke: Does 20 years really make a difference?
Tonight while I was surfing around looking for updates on the Malaysian jet still missing somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam – or perhaps somewhere else – I happened upon a long story in the New...
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Like a speeding locomotive
That’s the image that comes to mind when I think of how quickly things have moved when it comes to marriage equality. It has only been 10 years since same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts....
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The Supremes, Judge Posner, and gay marriage
The news late last week that the Supreme Court would hear an appeal from the Sixth Circuit ruling upholding bans on same-sex marriage in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee brought to mind the...
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Judge Moore and Justice Thomas and marriage equality in Alabama
I guess that Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is taking his cues from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent instead of from the actual ruling in which the majority of the United...
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Spring in Vermont
I’ve been gardening like crazy. My husband and I have taken out 90% of what the previous owners had planted including the trees and have replaced them with lilacs, blueberry bushes, forsythia, and a...
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My Supreme Court Fantasy
One of my friends asked if she would go to hell because she was glad that Antonin Scalia was dead. I have mixed feelings. First, I’m very sad for his family as sudden death is always difficult. On...
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