If signed into law by President Biden, the bill would authorize the federal government to bring a civil lawsuit against anyone who violates the statutory rights of gay, lesbian or interracial couples.
U.S. Senate passes the Respect for Marriage Act. What is it, and what does it do?
Tag: Samuel Alito
Justice Alito Concerned that Freeing Legally Innocent Man from Prison Would Clog Up the Federal Courts
One Man Has Set Up a $1.6 Billion Slush Fund to Fuel the Radical Right’s Takeover of Congress; Get Ready for a Dirty Tricks Campaign
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 26, 2022
The New York Times dropped a political bombshell on Monday. The public interest website, ProPublica, built further on the story that afternoon. And, as luck would have it, Wall Street On Parade finds itself in the unique position of filling in missing pieces of the story thanks to an investigative report we published in 2010.
One Man Has Set Up a $1.6 Billion Slush Fund to Fuel the Radical Right’s Takeover of Congress; Get Ready for a Dirty Tricks Campaign
Roberts’s Attempt to Keep “Roe” Intact Fell Apart After Alito’s Draft Leaked
When a draft of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to the public this spring, Chief Justice John Roberts was in the process of privately trying to dissuade conservative bloc justices from voting in favor of upending abortion rights — but the leak brought all potential compromises to a halt.
Roberts’s Attempt to Keep “Roe” Intact Fell Apart After Alito’s Draft Leaked
Previously:
Sam Alito leaked his own Dobbs draft
Alito himself leaked the draft, to lock in Kavanaugh. It’s unlikely it was necessary to do that (Kavanaugh’s vote was locked in as soon as he was totally falsely accused of sexual assault by those liberal women) but I’m betting Sammy the Papal Bull thought, “why take a chance?”
Dark Money Led To This Moment
A secretive donor network built the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, and brought them the case and arguments to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Dark Money Led To This Moment
The Republican’s George Soros. /sarcasm
House passes bill protecting marriage equality, with 47 GOP members voting ‘yes’
The House passed a bill on Tuesday to protect marriage equality, a direct response to an opinion from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last month that called for reversing multiple decisions that enshrined LGBTQ rights.
House passes bill protecting marriage equality, with 47 GOP members voting ‘yes’
Could this SCOTUS case push America toward one-party rule?
The court considers ‘Moore v. Harper’ to be a legitimate constitutional question. Critics say it’s a ‘power grab.’
Could this SCOTUS case push America toward one-party rule?
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Beware the “Independent State Legislatures doctrine” — it could checkmate democracy
The Independent State Legislatures doctrine used to be a fringe theory, but not anymore. Multiple Supreme Court justices are on the record in support of it. Right-wing legal activists from the Federalist Society and its “Honest Elections Project” are pushing for it in legal briefs authored by white-shoe law firms (BakerHostetler, counsel for the Honest Elections Project, has defended Republican gerrymandering in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.) And some GOP-controlled state legislatures, including Arizona, are considering bills that would allow them to intervene in presidential elections to choose electors themselves if election results are “unclear.” If a state were to pass this type of law, it would set the stage for a court to agree that the Independent State Legislature doctrine requires that in some circumstances, state legislatures rather than voters should determine election outcomes.
As Jane Mayer reported recently, right-wing funders like the Bradley Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have been working with Republican state legislators to advance ways to re-engineer how states allocate Electoral College votes. Last year, a GOP state representative from Arizona, Shawna Bulick, sat on an ALEC-convened working group that discussed the Electoral College, and this year, she introduced a bill that would have given the state legislature power to undo the certification of presidential electors by a simple majority vote up until the inauguration.
There Is No Constitutional Right to Eat Dinner
Claims that Justice Brett Kavanaugh had his rights violated by protesters outside a D.C. restaurant fail on originalist grounds.
There Is No Constitutional Right to Eat Dinner
When Abortion Was Illegal, Adoption Was a Cruel Industry. Are We Returning to Those Days?
by Pema Levy
A few weeks ago, before the final decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which ended the constitutional right to an abortion, I downloaded the audio version of American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by the journalist Gabrielle Glaser. Glaser’s book details the history of what became known as the “Baby Scoop Era,” the period from 1945 to 1973 during which as many as three to four million young, unmarried women surrendered their newborns to an exploitative adoption industry, and for many against their will, were permanently severed from their child.
When Abortion Was Illegal, Adoption Was a Cruel Industry. Are We Returning to Those Days?
Related:
The cruel secret history of a Jewish adoption agency that separated siblings
Woman discovers shocking truth of maternity home where she gave birth
Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion
The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated the constitutional right to obtain an abortion, casting aside 49 years of precedent that began with Roe v. Wade.
Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion
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