Anthony Kennedy

Arguendo Is Full of Supremely Naughty Charm

ERS's John Collins Explores a Sexy Supreme Court Case

Another Big Day for Same-Sex Marriage as the Supreme Court Hears Arguments on DOMA

Following yesterday's hearing on California's Proposition 8 (whose decision will likely fall into the hands of swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy), another case is coming through the Supreme Court this morning. The justices are hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Mar ... More >>

Supreme Court Hears Arguments Against California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Punts

At approximately 10:15 this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court started hearing arguments on Proposition 8, the 2008 California initiative that banned same-sex marriage in the state. It was the court's first major hearing of gay rights in 10 years, and will be followed by consideration of the Defense of ... More >>

Supreme Court to Return to Campaign Finance; Citizens United Redux?

Get ready to enter the case McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission into your "grab your pitchforks" political vocabulary. The Nine announced yesterday that the highest court in the land will hear the above case this coming October; one that resurrects the campaign finance subject chopped and scr ... More >>

Pack It In, Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown: the Gay Marriage Debate is Over

When you've lost the likes of Prop 8 proponent David Blankenhorn, Jutice Anthony Kennedy can't be far behind. Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage can't recover from this. Blankenhorn, who once staunchly fought to take gay marriage away from LGBT Californians ... More >>

Should SCOTUS Justices Use The Word 'Alien' In Considering How Arizona's Immigration Law Impacts Citizens?

There were two notable things that jumped out at us yesterday as the Obama administration challenged Arizona's controversial immigration law SB 1070 before the Supreme Court. First of all, who the hell in the Obama administration let Solicitor General Donald Verrilli anywhere near the Supreme Cour ... More >>

You Can Get Strip Searched for an Unpaid Parking Ticket: Thanks, U.S. Supreme Court

Bad news if you don't like getting dehumanized: The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled 5-4 to OK strip searches for any offense. What this means: if you get booked for an offense as minor as an unpaid parking ticket, you might have to bare all for corrections officers before being admitted to jail. Y ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Supreme Court Justices Are Nerds; Mel Gibson Somehow Involved

​When most Americans punch out at 5 o'clock, we plop down in our armchairs, crack open a cold brew, and watch CBS until we forget our Social Security numbers. Work is for the office, home is for NCIS: Los Angeles. Members of the Supreme Court didn't get the memo. The Wall Street Journal ran a ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Real White House Gatecrasher Story: Obama's Radical Ties

Last week's state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was from the beginning fraught with controversy -- or what passes for controversy among rightbloggers. First, the dinner menu was leaked. Right Pundits was miffed that "such cultural oddities as potato and eggplant salad, arugula, r ... More >>

Aggregating the Aggregators

​Today's hot hot stories, brought to you by the blurb jockeys at America's sexiest news sources! Huffington Post: The 18 Biggest lies of Palin's book. Some Hemingway filly is topless. Levi Johnston's hairy armpit. Teabagger party turns violent. Jessica Alba pats herself on the back. Costco s ... More >>

Consider the Constitutions of Obama and McCain as You Choose Sides

When Judges Attack!

The war president is finding a less pliant judiciary

'There Is No Law Here'

A funny thing happened on the way to monarchy: a rare Supreme Court take-back

Boeing's Frequent (Kidnapping) Flyers

George W. Bush's presidential library is not likely to include the story of Binyam Mohammed

Saving Free Speech and Jesus

Religious and conservative groups support the 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' banner under fire at the Supreme Court

Joe Frederick, First Amendment Idol

Will the Supreme Court hold high the banner 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus,' or crush free speech?

Bush Revives Espionage Act

Bush's war on the disloyal press climaxes in a trial on classified information.

Treason: Who Decides?

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 subverts who we are as Americans. Beware.

Supreme Court Strikes Fear

Reprimanded by the Supreme Court, the Bush administration rushes to evade punishment

General Hayden in Bush's Pocket

The nimble former head of the National Security Agency soft-shoes his way to the CIA

Learning Why We're Americans

Schools fail the future when they don't teach individual liberties in the Constitution

Mutiny at the Supreme Court

The Roberts Court signals the president that he is not immune from the Constitution

John Roberts v. Thurgood Marshall

In 1954, the Supreme Court thought it had ended public school segregation. It was wrong.

'Times' to Commoners: Go Elsewhere

Don't soil our publicly subsidized new HQ with your riff-raff

Morning Report 7/20/05
Supreme Insult

Cash Bar in D.C.

People will pay to see this court battle. In fact, they're paying right now.

Pulling Up Lame

Loser versus loser: Handicapping the coming Supreme Court vacancies

The GOP's Fright Wing

DeLay and Frist light the torches for a crusade against 'activist' judges

Down by Law

Bush Warms Up to Bill

Ex-president now a social security blanket for the current president

Stalin to the Rescue

Morning Report 3/1/05
We Can't Execute Youths, Supreme Court Says

Bringing the Nation Back on Track

SCOTUS reminds POTUS what America is fighting for

Is Bush the Law?

Can the commander in chief 'detain' the constitution indefinitely all by himself?

First Amendment Treats for the Rich

The Media Blew This One Big-Time

The Radical Case for Gay Marriage

Why Progressives Must Join This Fight

Free at Last?

What the Sodomy Ruling Has Changed—and What It Hasn't

Love and War

Gay Americans Won a Court Victory. Now Comes the Fight to Wed.

Nation

'Liberty Is a Fragile Thing'

McCarthyism Can Rise Again

Supreme Court in Contempt

Rewriting the Constitution

The Patriot

Ralph Nader Keeps Democracy Alive

It’s the Supreme Court, Stupid

The Next President's Picks Could Determine the Fate of Roe v. Wade 

Will the Right Rule?

What Will Happen to the Constitution If Clinton Is Convicted?