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In Defense Of The First Amendment

Our wonderful colleague Salome Valentine, hot on the heels of this week’s ruling in Snyder v. Phelps (holding WBC’s picketing of a military funeral to be Constitutionally-protected speech), highlighted...

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Westboro Wins: A Look At The Supreme Court’s Decision

As previously reported, the Supreme Court decided Wednesday in favor of dismissing the monetary judgement against the Westboro Baptist Church. This piece is light on commentary and heavy on...

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Monday Political Sausage

Oh the times, they are a’ chagin’.As previously mentioned, I’m going to be doing something new with the Sausage. One of the comments that came out of the Writers Workshop was that the “shotgun”...

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The Hilarious Twitter Response to CNN’s Epic Fail in Today’s SCOTUS Ruling

So, CNN had one doozy of a “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment today. Haha! No, seriously that’s patently terrible. You CNN people are supposed to report the news. No one cares if you’re first to report it...

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Your Prop 8/DOMA Open Thread Part Deux

Yesterday we heard the oral arguments for CA’s Prop 8 which audio of can be found here and a transcript here. I would write a recap, but I’ll be the first to admit that 1) I suck at translating legal...

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SCOTUS October Term 2012 Decision Watch (Updated 6/26)

There were 77 cases argued before the US Supreme Court in the 2012 October Term. The Court announced the decisions in the last 3 cases on June 26th. 6/26 Update: The Court announced decisions in the...

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US Supreme Court Reasoning Slipping Away

The internets, how do they work? The already ridiculously old and technologically impaired Supreme Court of the United States of America has come down with a bad case of link rot. The NY Times brings...

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Does the Definition of Conception Really Matter?

After yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling in the matter of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., wherein the highest court in the land decided 5-4 that “closely held” for-profit corporations have a right to...

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