Tag: Supreme Court

Fatal Birth Defects Possible, Court Blocked EPA Air Pollution Rule

God forbid we want our children to breathe clean air! I know a young woman whose mother worked at a plant that used mercury...

Diner In Philadelphia Offers ‘Scalia Is A Douche’ Special–Sells Out In...

Sam's Morning Glory Diner in Philadelphia has a routine for Fridays: That's the day they come up with the name for the breakfast specials...
Clarence Thomas speaking at Wake Forest Law School in 2012 (courtesy Wake Forest Law's Flickr)

An Open Letter To Clarence Thomas Regarding His Breakdown Of Decency

Dear Justice Thomas: Over the last quarter-century, I've seen you do a lot of things to disgrace the seat on the Supreme Court once occupied...

 The GOP Same Sex Marriage Law Freakout

The GOP is having a wholesale tantrum.?Never mind that the Supreme Court's ruling lifted the bars against same-sex marriage making it the law of...

Texas AG Says ‘It’s Wrong To Subject People Of Faith To...

No sooner had the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage been handed down yesterday than Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton began looking for a...

Supreme Court Thunderbolt Claims Nationwide Same-Sex Marriage USA

Love wins. In a tectonic shift, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5 to 4 decision Friday that the Constitution guarantees the right to same-sex marriage coast-to-coast.Justice Anthony M....

HUGE WIN! Supreme Court Upholds Housing Discrimination Law

No Discrimination Law Stands. Public Domain  Housing Discrimination Law Housing discrimination is knocked out once again! Thursday morning, the Supreme Court agreed that the 1968...

Supreme Court To Rule Soon On Gay Marriage, Affordable Healthcare

Your world and mine could shift when the Supreme Court makes announcements on their top six case rulings. The nine supreme justices must announce...

VIDEO: Lambda Legal Nails Argument For LGBT Rights In ‘Say #IDO’...

// // Lambda Legal, the non-profit organization that is "the oldest and largest legal organization in the U.S. dedicated to the civil rights of...
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SCOTUS Defeats Confederacy In Ruling Over License Plate Images

General Sherman denied the Confederacy victory in the Civil War. 150 years later, the Supreme Court denied Confederate sympathizers license plate images. In a 5-4...

NRA Repeal Of San Francisco Gun Laws Shot Down By SCOTUS

On Monday, the Supreme Court continued its trend of aversion on several NRA-backed appeals that would loosen gun rights. This unwillingness by the high...

Did Texas Just Execute an Innocent Man? Doubt Over Guilt Remains

In October 1983, 35-year-old Lester Bower fatally shot four people with a .22 pistol in an airplane hanger in Sherman, Texas. That conclusion was...

Muslim Woman Wins Supreme Court Employment Discrimination Case

In a very surprising 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court has sided with Samantha Elauf, a Muslim woman who Abercrombie and Fitch refused to hire...
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Santorum Says He’ll “Fight” SCOTUS Marriage Equality Ruling

With the Supreme Court expected to rule on marriage equality in the coming weeks, Rick Santorum has made it clear that if the Supreme...

Ben Carson Says Federal Government Not Required To Follow Same-Sex Marriage...

According to Ben Carson, recently-announced Republican candidate for President, the federal government doesn't have to recognize any ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which...
Rick Joyner speaking at his church in Fort Mill, South Carolina (from his Facebook)

Fundie Leader Rick Joyner: Marriage Equality Decision Could Be The Mark...

A prominent religious right leader sent a dire warning to his followers this weekend--if the Supreme Court decides in favor of marriage equality, it...
The facade of the Supreme Court Building (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

Read 5 Of The Dumbest Arguments The Supreme Court Will Hear...

Later this month, the Supreme Court is due to hear oral arguments in several cases regarding bans on same-sex marriage at the state level....

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine: Gays Already Have Too Much Power

Mike DeWine, the Republican Attorney General of Ohio, has discovered a new way to put one's foot deeply into one's mouth: Via a legal...
The Sistine Chapel ceiling (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

Did American Family Association Use Picture Painted By Gay Man To...

Like most religious right organizations, the American Family Association is gnashing its teeth at the prospect of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Still Does Push-ups And 9 Other Crazy Things...

Wow. I didn't know how much I didn't know about the great Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ? or RBG. Irin Carmen nabbed a...