About That “Poking Into Every Nook and Cranny of Daily Life” Thing, Chief Justice Roberts …
…as opposed to, say, state laws (and in the case of DOMA, a federal statute) that poke into what should be very private nooks and crannies of daily life, in…
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Federal Judge Finds Ohio Can’t Refuse to Recognize Couple’s Out-of-State Same-Sex Marriage
…section 3 of DOMAmay be read more broadly a s finding the entire statute unconstitutional, including section 2’s provision permitting states to refuse to recognize gay marriages from other states….
Same-Sex Married Couples Will be Recognized for Federal Tax Purposes Even When Moving to Nonrecognition State
…Court’s historic DOMA decision in United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. ___, 133 S. Ct. 2675 (2013). See, e.g., IRS Rules All Legal Same-Sex Marriages Count Now–Even Retroactively, Forbes.com (Aug….
Religious freedom, taxes, and corporatism–Part II
…freedoms as other Americans. Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (commonly called DOMA), an egregious piece of discrimination against gays and lesbians that was pushed for by fundamentalist…
Scrutiny of John Roberts: He Says He Will Vote to Uphold the University of Texas Affirmative Action Admissions Policy Because White Applicants Have Political Power. Seriously.
I (run7511) resurrected this commentary from March 2013. It is a realistic commentary about what John Roberts is all about. A take on what they were discussing then and how…
Scalia Changes His Mind … About the Purpose of the Equal Protection Clause.
Wow. It looks, from SCOTUSblog’s Lyle Denniston’s report on the argument this afternoon in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, that I was, um … right in saying yesterday…
Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel
…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…