NRA's False Attacks And Campaign Of Division Are Out Of Step With America
The chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association has been attacking Sen. Barack Obama's views on preventing gun violence in an Op-Ed in yesterday...
The chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association has been attacking Sen. Barack Obama's views on preventing gun violence in an Op-Ed in yesterday...
Greg Boose | Posted 09.17.2008 | Chicago
Daley and his team have been so excited regarding the praise of his ballyhooed one-worded comeback that they've taken similar approaches with other Chicago figures.
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 09.17.2008 | Chicago
On the eve of today's 221st anniversary of the U.S. Constitution's adoption, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told conservative lawyers in Ch...
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics
Red state feminism may be exciting, even interesting, but it does not speak to average women, whether they are stay-at-home moms or working-moms or neither.
John Rosenthal | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Since the Supreme Court repealed the DC gun ban, we can now begin a debate about how to prevent easy gun access to those that don't deserve it while protecting the right of law abiding gun owners who do.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media
U.S. mayors resolve to avoid burning dirty tar sands oil, Bush signs $162B war spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan, Afghanistan civilian death toll rises sharply, Scalia still blames Gore for the 2000 election debacle.
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Most criticism of the Supreme Court's recent decisions comes off as whining about the fact that the Court decided against one's side, with zero appreciation of the fact that at least there's a relatively fair system.
Jackson Williams | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
If we don't like the Second Amendment, then we should agitate to get rid of it in the methods the Founders prescribed. But we might want to think twice.
Paul Helmke | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
When the dust settles, most Americans -- and I believe even most in the gun violence prevention movement -- will come to see that there are some positives in this decision.
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
In its ruling, the Court brushed away our nation's history of mass shootings, assassinations, and unparalleled gun violence and accepted an abstract academic argument with dangerous real-world results.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
After the Court's ruling that Guantanamo detainees are now entitled to habeas corpus, all the president's men are working overtime so they can stack the deck strongly in favor of winning convictions.
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has done his part to make sure that, at least in the U.S., the future for his gun industry friends and their lobbying pals is a little bit brighter.
Doug Kendall | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
At a time when gas prices and oil company profits are record highs, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken $2 billion from 32,000 Americans who lost their livelihood in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Charlie Rose | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
To bolster his argument that the Guantánamo detainees should be denied the right to prove their innocence in federal courts, Scalia relied on stale information that was proven to be false one year ago.
Doug Kendall | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
As the Sprint case indicates, the Supreme Court's liberals are increasingly finding that constitutional history supports progressive outcomes, while the conservatives are willing to discount inconvenient historical arguments.
David Quigg | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
In the interest of saving America from bin Laden, we have shown a terrifying willingness to strip away more and more of the founding virtues that make America worth saving in the first place.
Byron Williams | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics
How can it be that the writ of habeas corpus, which dates back to the Magna Carta in 1215, could hang by the sliver of a 5-4 decision?
Martin Garbus | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
For the first time in decades, the makeup on the Court is direct and center in the election. McCain and Obama have staked out totally different positions -- and whoever wins will have two nominations.
David Bromwich | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics
The Supreme Court's recent decision on Guantanamo opened the grounds for a debate in which the American opponents of liberty will speak of the "lack of realism" of the U.S. Constitution.
Doug Kendall | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
By Doug Kendall and Elizabeth Wydra Conservatives love to decry result-oriented judging--except when they don't like the results compelled by the law...
Ray Hanania | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
I realize now George W. Bush didn't steal the election from Al Gore. It was stolen for him by Jim Baker III and his team of legal snakes that included the U.S. Supreme Court.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
The word is consensus. It is hard to achieve. But then it's even harder to beat.
236.com | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936[1]) is an American jurist, Supreme Court Justice, and a dick. He is the number two most senior Associate ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
You know what they say: You can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, and you can also pick the next three justices to sit on the Supreme Court. ...
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Paul Helmke | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home