Beware The “Pulitzer Prize Nominee” Crap
When a journalist or writer touts in his biography or book jacket cover that he/she is a "Pulitzer Prize Nominee", a warning bell should go off in your head. What they probably mean is that there name was submitted to the Pulitzer Prize board by their publisher or employer. What does it take to do that? Filling out a form … Read More
It Doesn’t Matter What The News Is Today…
…the topic will be the Supreme Court's decision on healthcare, in 24 hours. Recent polling has suggested that 61 percent of Americans oppose the individual mandate. But according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 55 percent of survey respondents said that if the Supreme Court strikes down the mandate, it would “not make much difference either way” to them and their families. … Read More
Romney Leads in NC
Rassmusson Reports: Mitt Romney continues to hold a small lead over President Obama in the key swing state of North Carolina. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Tar Heel State finds Romney earning 47% support to Obama’s 44%. Three percent (3%) like some other candidate in the race, while six percent (6%) are undecided. (To … Read More
Something Republicans Would Never Do
Obama shuts down a crowd of people booing Romney, saying that "Romney is a patriotic American."
Quote Of The Day
Well, Aaron Walker got SWATed last night, which provides him an opportunity to act like a First Amendment martyr. It also allowed him to play his favorite game: "I am famous, look at me". Dang, indeed. It also got him some Twitter followers, which for Aaron is validation of self-worth that he apparently didn't get as a child: Still, the … Read More
I Love Soledad
The Romney campaign thinks they can talk about immigration by not talking about it. Soledad O’Brien isn’t buying what this guy is selling. This is typical of the Romney campaign — don't answer, don't stick your neck out, don't say what you would do for president.
Campos On Scalia
From Salon, law professor Paul Campos writes about Scalia: Newt Gingrich has been described as a dumb person’s idea of a smart person. I’ve heard the same remark made about Antonin Scalia, and until today I would have said that was unfair. Scalia has always had a taste for over-the-top rhetorical flourishes, as well as an unnecessarily high opinion of … Read More
Republicans Like Obamacare Provisions; They Just Don’t Like Obama
Key points from a just-released Reuters-Ipsos poll: * Eighty percent of Republicans favor “creating an insurance pool where small businesses and uninsured have access to insurance exchanges to take advantage of large group pricing benefits.” That’s backed by 75 percent of independents. * Fifty-seven percent of Republicans support “providing subsidies on a sliding scale to aid individuals and families who … Read More
Romney Responds To The Immigration Ruling
Mitt Romney's only comment on today's Supreme Court ruling against SB1070 is this written statement released a short time ago: “Today's decision underscores the need for a President who will lead on this critical issue and work in a bipartisan fashion to pursue a national immigration strategy. President Obama has failed to provide any leadership on immigration. This represents yet another broken … Read More
Scalia “Jumps The Shark”
Justice Scallia raves more against the politicization of the Supreme Court more than any justice in history, and yet, he barely even tries to hide the politics which guide is "objective" legal opinions. It's blatent, as Steve Benen observes: Scalia used the court's ruling on Arizona's anti-immigrant law to condemn President Obama and complain about the administration's enforcement policies. … Read More
How The Networks Covered The Arizona Ruling This Morning
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court struck three provisions of the Arizona immigration law. Two of them made it a crime for undocumented immigrants to be present and to seek employment in Arizona, while a third authorized police officers to make warrantless arrests of anyone they had probable cause to believe had committed a deportable offense. It upheld only one … Read More
Radical Change In U.S. Politics
James Fallows is right: Pick a country and describe a sequence in which: First, a presidential election is decided by five people, who don't even try to explain their choice in normal legal terms. Then the beneficiary of that decision appoints the next two members of the court, who present themselves for consideration as restrained, humble figures who care only … Read More
Obamacare Decision Today?
It's possible, but I suspect not. Anyway, if you're reading this on Monday, June 25 before 10am, the place to be isn't here, but the live blog at SCOTUSBlog. We'll know almost imeediately if they decided on Obamacare. UPDATE: No Obamacare decision today, it looks like. But SCOTUS did reject a Montana case which could have weakened Citizen's United. Unfortunately, … Read More
Corporate Court
A study condicted by the Constitutional Accountability Center came up with a finding which is not altogether surprising, but depressing nevertheless: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is undefeated at the Supreme Court this term, continuing to improve its success in securing business-friendly judgments since Chief Justice John Roberts took the bench in 2005. In other words, when the conservative pro-business … Read More