Tag Supreme Court

Gay marriage: another reason Elena Kagan’s left right wingers with no line of attack.

We’re really enjoying the Elena Kagan interview process.  It’s almost like getting interrogated by hundreds of overly confident questioners for a crime you didn’t commit (and frankly for a crime which doesn’t exist.  Each member seems to think they’re going to be the one blowing the doors open to some new revelation that makes Kagan [...]

When it comes to campaign finance, Supreme Court decides free speech is as corporate as it is personal.

From Slate’s article: ”But you can plainly see the weariness in [Justice] Stevens eyes and hear it in his voice today as he is forced to contend with a legal fiction that has come to life today, a sort of constitutional Frankenstein moment when corporate speech becomes even more compelling than the “voices of the real [...]