There is certainly much to be said about the California Supreme Court’s set of opinions in Strauss v. Horton from the perspective of the gay rights/gay marriage issue. I leave those issues to people who have thought about them more… Continue reading
The California Supreme Court will release its decision in the Prop. 8 lawsuit at 10 am Pacific today. Among the issues expected to be addressed are the difference between a state constitutional amendment and revision.
It is interesting to think… Continue reading
He writes: “But the political payoff of naming the first Hispanic justice — and a woman to boot — seems to me the key. This is a shrewd nomination politically, if not necessarily a good one jurisprudentially, and not… Continue reading
Wow. It will be interesting to hear about what led the President to make this choice, rather than the choice of Judge Wood, which is what I and a number of others were expecting. Age? Identity politics? A… Continue reading
This NY Times article begins: “Pamela S. Karlan is a champion of gay rights, criminal defendants’ rights and voting rights. She is considered brilliant, outspoken and, in her own words, ‘sort of snarky.’ To liberal supporters, she is an Antonin… Continue reading
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram offers this report, which begins: “AUSTIN — Scores of bills were in danger Saturday as House members remained in parliamentary gridlock from Democratic stalling tactics aimed at killing voter-identification legislation.”
Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer have written this LA Times oped. A snippet: “Although it is politically incorrect to say, and it pains us as good liberals to admit it, the court’s striking down of Section 5 would actually… Continue reading
That’s the deal Joe Mathews proposes in an NYT oped:
Most important, President Obama should press California’s elected officials and its voters — 61 percent of whom supported him last November — to make constitutional changes. Among these would be… Continue reading