Tag: supreme court

While Democrats are staging a sit-in in the House to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns, the conservatives in Congress and the Supreme Court are quickly nullifying the 4th Amendment.

The biggest part of Obamacare will go into effect on January 1. That is the individual mandate. I have questioned that and been against it since the start, but now I am reconsidering. Why? Because conservatives have admitted it will work. You know, it’s one thing to oppose a policy; that, of course, is perfectly […]

Yesterday the Texas state Senate took up what would have been the harshest anti-abortion legislation in the country. Luckily Democratic State Senator, Wendy Davis, wasn’t going to stand for it and stages a 12+ hour filibuster. Throughout the duration of the filibuster, there were some very stressful times, where state Republicans failed to shut it […]

The Supreme Court has made a huge ruling today: The Supreme Court says states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona’s voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order […]

Ohio is a key state to the White House. The Democrats know this and so does the Republicans. That’s why it is no shock that Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State, John Husted, has stopped at nothing to try and give Romney an advantage in the Buckeye State. Well that latest attempt has now been turned […]

This Fall, the Supreme Court will be taking up a case that can really affect all of us. The case will determine if you actually have the right to sell a used product that was made or contains parts from overseas: At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in […]

A couple weeks ago Richard Posner, one of America’s most influential conservative judges, made big news when he said the Republican Party has become “goofy“. Now he is backing that claim up more by offering his view on some of the bigger decisions the Supreme Court has made and the right supports, namely Citizens United: […]

Today CNN reported that the mandate was struck down. Here’s their televised report: On their website they reported: They later went back and edited it to say: “[Updated at 10:06 a.m. ET] In a landmark decision that will impact the nation for decades, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a key provision of President Barack […]

The news is still coming in, but the Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate. They did say it didn’t fall under the commerce clause, but it does fall under taxing. That makes more sense to me. Oh and the one breaking with the right to uphold it? The Chief Justice himself, John Roberts. Get […]

We always here Republicans talk about “state sovereignty” and an “overreaching federal government”, but they really don’t believe in what they say. Take this latest example from the conservative Supreme Court: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down Montana’s century-old limits on corporate political spending, putting an end to the state’s resistance to Citizens […]