Two SCOTUS Victories, But With Missed Opportunities
As I tweeted when the case was handed down, I was pleasantly surprised by the 8-1 decision in Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding, in which the court decided that a strip search is a strip...
View ArticleMore Global Interfaith Unity Through Hatred of Gays
First and foremost, there's been some sloppy reporting, and lots of sloppy blogging, on this issue: The "Delhi High Court" is not the Supreme Court of India. It's more like a state supreme court in the...
View ArticleOn No-Fly and Emanuel & Lautenberg's "New Due Process"
Remind me again how Obama and the hyper-liberal Congress were going to usher in a new civil libertarian paradise where basic constitutional rights are actually acknowledged and respected? [I]f you're...
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Gay Bloggers Turning Against Gay Activists Over Olson/Boies
On timely motion, the court must permit anyone to intervene who … claims an interest relating to the property or transaction that is the subject of the action, and is so situated that disposing of the...
View ArticleA "Baker v. Nelson" Primer
There's been yet another Outbreak of Stupid™ in the gay blawgosphere — and, this time, in the Senate Judiciary Committee — so let's pause to get it right: The "Baker v. Nelson" that Senator Chuck...
View ArticleIn Defense of Full Corporate Rights
More stupidity from the New York Times editorial board. The question at the heart of one of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year is simple: What constitutional rights should corporations have? To...
View ArticleJustice Harlan, Meet Speaker Pelosi
Note: It's been a while. Pardon the lack of polish in this post. To review: The debate over so-called "deem and pass" (also called the "Slaughter House Rules"), under which cowardly House members could...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the DOMA Rulings
Some hasty stitches about Gill v. OPM (PDF – 44 pages) and Massachusetts v. Sibelius (PDF – 36 pages): –Typically, when one thinks of DOMA's unconstitutionality, one thinks of Section 2, the so-called...
View ArticleDOMA: Is the Tea Party "Mute" Dumb or Just "Stupid" Dumb?
I blogged the following two days ago in the wake of the Massachusetts DOMA rulings: As I had said all through the great gay marriage tsunami of years past: States have no "rights." Only individuals...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Who Pays for "Paid Vacation"?
(Originally posted 17 May 2007. As an entrepreneur, it takes on a more direct relevance to me these days. See also, "the next generation of professional malcontents.") — Professional malcontents have...
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