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What religion is Exxon?

Monday, November 25, 2013

We truly have come to a strange place in this country, even jurisprudentially speaking. In this morning's Times we read that the court is likely to take up the question of the “Religious Rights of Corporations”. It seems that the Hobby Lobby objects to providing mandated health insurance benefits to its employees. We seem to […]

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Tender Corporate Consciences

Friday, November 1, 2013

Back in July the 6th Circuit turned back a challenge to the Affordable Health Care act’s birth control coverage mandate, on the common sense grounds that while Mitt Romney may think they’re people, they can’t have religions. I thought I wrote about it at the time, but can’t find the post. Anyway, this decision is […]

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Equal Justice Under the Law

Thursday, October 24, 2013

As a certified bleeding heart liberal, I'm really not sure what to think about this: A former US campus policeman who pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters has been awarded $38,000 (£23,400) in compensation for psychiatric damage. Lieutenant John Pike received threats after footage of the incident went viral on the internet in 2011. It showed him casually […]

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A helpful suggestion

Saturday, August 31, 2013

I read this story in the New London Day, but was unable to find a link there. It was these paragraphs that caught my attention: ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) _ Massachusetts prosecutors in the Aaron Hernandez murder case said Friday there’s no truth to an allegation by lawyers for the former New England Patriot that investigators […]

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Constitutional Law 101

Friday, August 23, 2013

Some good, if basic, discussion here about the right’s abuse of the 10th Amendment. The bigger problem, which author Robert Parry notes, is the refusal of the press to provide basic information to readers, many of whom will therefore come to the natural conclusion that there must be some validity to these specious arguments. The […]

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The Court rules on gay rights

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

We got a bit of good news out of the Supreme Court yesterday, proving among other things that race remains the final frontier in this country. Who would have thought that the Supreme Court would protect gay marriage one day after reinstating Jim Crow. Some folks are disappointed that the court ducked the chance to […]

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Defending Fat Tony

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Wow. If you do this sort of thing long enough, you find yourself doing all kinds of crazy things. If you’d told me I would ever rise to defend Injustice Scalia, I’d have thought you were crazy, but here I go. I was reading this firedoglake post and was struck by a quote attributed to […]

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Too good to last (probably)

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge in California ruled in a decision released Friday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered the government to stop issuing so-called NSLs across the board, in a stunning defeat for the Obama administration’s […]

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Awesome

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Paul Simon sang that we live in an age of miracles and wonders. And we do. But we also live in an age of awe inspiring insanity. The Age of Reason, which spawned this great land, has given way to the Age of Unreason. The latest example, which breaks new ground in legal unreasoning, is […]

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Annals of Equal Justice

Monday, August 13, 2012

The FCC has fined Google $22.5 million dollars for willfully violating the privacy of millions of people, after it had promised to stop doing almost exactly the same thing in another context: David Vladeck, who leads the agency’s consumer protection bureau, defended the penalty. “$22.5 million may not seem like a lot of money to […]

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