Sexual Assault Victim Faces Jail Time For Naming Her Assailants
The victim, 17 year-old Savannah Dietrich When Savannah Dietrich was sexually assaulted and her attackers distributed photographs of the incident, any law enforcement agent would have encouraged the...
View ArticleRepublican County Clerk Questions Colorado’s Voter Purge Efforts
Larimer County Clerk Scott Doyle (R) is questioning Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s (R) voter purge program. Gessler has been seeking access to a Department of Homeland Security database...
View ArticleCBO: Cost Of Obamacare Drops By $84B As A Result Of Supreme Court’s Decision
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated its analysis of the Affordable Care Act in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandate,...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Consider Whether The Constitution Guarantees A Right To The...
John Joseph Delling The lawyers for John Joseph Delling have asked the Supreme Court to rule that the Constitution guarentees a right to the insanity defense. Delling, who’s 2007 crime spree lasted...
View ArticleSenate Dems Testify Against Citizens United
A constitutional amendment is needed to undo the damage caused by the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v.
View ArticleLouisiana Supreme Court Justice Rejected A Deal That Would Have Made Her...
Lousiana Supreme Court Justice Bernette Johnson made her first public comments concerning the controversy over who will become the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Johnson told a panel of...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Attorney General Admits Voter ID Won’t Prevent Voter Fraud
Taking a break from defending his state’s restrictive voter ID law in court, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson spoke at a Heritage Foundation panel on Thursday regarding the dire need to...
View ArticleScalia Suggests ‘Hand-Held Rocket Launchers’ Are Protected Under Second...
This morning on Fox News Sunday , Justice Antonin Scalia reiterated just how extremely his Constitutional originalism can be applied.
View ArticleREPORT: Ohio Routinely Tosses Thousands Of Votes In Every Election
In 2004, 9 votes per precinct pushed George W. Bush ahead of John Kerry in Ohio. But thousands are thrown out each election, according to a new report by the Cincinnati Enquirer .
View ArticleTexas Set To Unconstitutionally Execute A Mentally Retarded Man Next Week
Texas Inmate Marvin Wilson It is unconstitutional to execute the mentally retarded . So Marvin Wilson, a Texas inmate scheduled to be executed next Tuesday, should not constitutionally face the death...
View ArticleThe State of America’s Children 2012
Marian Wright Edelman This report is a portrait of where our children are right now and a tool to spur us to set the vision of where we need to go to stop the downward mobility of our children and...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court Throws Out Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban Case As...
The California Supreme Court dismissed review yesterday of an important appellate court ruling affecting medical marijuana dispensaries throughout the state. Specifically, the High Court threw out the...
View ArticleGOP Casino Baron Sheldon Adelson Pledges $500,000 To Buy A Single House Seat
Sheldon Adelson, the multi-billionaire casino mogul who already spent at least $5 million to help keep Republicans in control of the House next year, reportedly pledged $500,000 to just one House...
View ArticleCalifornia Spends More on Jails than Higher Education
As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than on higher education. Since 1980,...
View ArticleCorporate Law Firms Now Paying $280,000 Signing Bonuses For Supreme Court Clerks
Major corporate law firms are now paying recent Supreme Court clerks, many of whom are only two years out of law school and can be as young as 28 years old, a $280,000 signing bonus simply for showing...
View Article55 Guantanamo Detainees Were Cleared For Release Three Years Ago, But Are...
Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, who died in Guantanamo Bay though he was repeatedly approved for release The Justice Department released the names of 55 prisoners still being held in Guantanamo Bay three...
View ArticleCiting Citizens United, Federal Appeals Court Blocks Access To Birth Control
On Friday, a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in an order joined by two conservative Republican appointees, temporarily immunized a company from the Obama...
View ArticleCorporate Lobby Threatens A Blizzard Of Litigation Attacking Wall Street...
Yesterday, U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue delivered his “State of American Business” address, in which he laid out the wealthy corporate lobbying group’s agenda for the coming year....
View ArticleSupreme Court Reconsiders Allowing Judges To Increase Sentences Without Jury...
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View ArticleBREAKING: Judge Halts New York City Ban On Large Sodas
A New York state judge halted NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on sales of large sugary drinks . According to the judge, Bloomberg’s rule “fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences.
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