Senate Dems have got to start snarling and kicking and dragging their feet, and fighting as if their grandchildren’s future depends on it! We need to get loud, rude, and throw sand in the gears of this Barrett nomination. As far as I can tell, former state rep Aaron Regunberg is the only person out …
(9.27) Democrats need to get in some good trouble! Last week hundreds of you joined a protest in Burnside Park urging our senators to fight the upcoming Supreme Court nomination. You are invited back this week to hear the plan for that fight and help deliver that plan to Senators Whitehouse and Reed. Aaron Regunberg, …
(9.20) Need someplace to go and something to do?!!! A rally has been organized by former state rep and activist Aaron Regunberg and city councilor Katherine Kerwin to demand that the Senate use any and all tactics necessary to foil Republican efforts to ram through another Supreme Court nominee. This president can not be allowed …
(10.3) Action Speaks kicks off its new season Wednesday. This year Action Speaks looks at moments when the rights of the individual have clashed with the needs or beliefs of the public and where the line between private and public has been defined or blurred. In its fall 2012 season, Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that …
(9.17) Ignorant dopes on the right are always going on about threats to “our precious freedoms” but they never get it right about which freedoms, where, and by whom. (It’s usually “Obama is after our guns.”) Brown University’s Political Theory Project is hosting a discussion of recent Fourth Amendment decisions with speakers Michael Dreeben and …
As you are (or had better be) aware, the President will have a chance to appoint a new United States Supreme Court Justice early into his first term. So, who is it? Lefty wackjobs like myself would love to see him act swiftly and send in Andrew Cuomo or Deval Patrick to counterweight the ultra …
But things are looking up for all women tired of getting schtupped by The Man. President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law yesterday, legislation that should loosen up the statute of limitations problems Ledbetter ran into with her pay discrimination suit. In ruling against Ledbetter, the Roberts Court found that she …
Get used to the phrase “in a 5-4 decision”. I was brought to task recently for some unsophisticated blogginess regarding Chief Justice Roberts that perhaps did not serve my purpose. . . but I was not wrong. I find the current Supreme Court quite worrisome. If Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is any …
Today, the United States Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments on a case in which the decision will have a significant impact on the First Amendment. While scanning the NYT Washington news, this article jumped off of the screen and set sirens off in my head. I don’t know how many of you are …