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August 5, 2010
Obama's Marriage FAIL
Axelrod has no option but this, I suppose:
"The president does oppose same-sex marriage, but he supports equality
for gay and lesbian couples, and benefits and other issues, and that has
been effectuated in federal agencies under his control."
But the whole point of this ruling is to contradict this statement. If the president does not support my right to marry, then he does not support my equality, according to the ruling. And you will note that Axelrod does not provide an argument as to...
What Reason?
Drum doesn't think the Supreme Court will uphold Judge Walker's decision:
[Walker:] essentially ruled that bans on same-sex marriage are nothing morethan an "artifact" of history, and I have severe doubts that this isgoing to withstand scrutiny. At the Supreme Court level, the briefingattorneys won't be limited in their presentation of the law, and allthey have to do is show some rational reason for existingbans. It doesn't have to be a great reason, and it doesn't have to be areason that...
Worse Than Danielle?
Real Housewives of Washington DC is unspeakably bad.
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Does It Matter That Walker Is Gay?
It's an interesting question, I suppose. Did it matter that Thurgood Marshall was black? Should he have recused himself from civil rights decisions that affected African-Americans? I can't see that many would agree with that, although the line of questioning from Republican senators in the Kagan hearings might give one pause. Gerard Bradley tries a more focused attempt to delegitimize the enormous victory yesterday for marriage equality:
When a judge is obliged to withdraw from a case due to...
Lebanon's Itchy Trigger Finger
There is no excusing the senseless murder of an IDF soldier – shot while removing a tree on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border. It was obscuring a security camera (although why the camera could not be moved rather than the tree is the kind of question only Jon Stewart seems to ask). Stephen Walt echoes Juan Cole:
This incident underscores the fragility of the current peacebetween Israel and Lebanon. When security is precarious, militarypersonnel will be more inclined to shoot...
On That Iran Policy Briefing
Joe Klein got the same memo days ago:
The powerful bazaari community has been shocked not just by the universal support for the sanctions, but also by their comprehensive nature. Iranian ships are sitting at their docks because they international community is refusing to insure them. Banks that have done business with Iran in the past are refusing to do so now because the UN sanctions--that's right, those "weak" UN sanctions--target them as well. The Iranian economy, a stagflation fiasco...
Toujours L'Audace!
Sherrod.
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What Will Justice Kennedy Do?
Silver tries to weigh the intangibles:
I'm not qualified to analyze the merits of Perry v. Schwarzennegerpoint of view from a legal positivist point of view, I will deign totake a crack at it from a legal realist frame. It seems to me that mostof the "intangibles" bear upon Justice Kennedy in ways that favor hisfinding Constitutional protection for same-sex marriage. For one thing,he'll be 75 or 76 by the time the SCOTUS hears this case, and willprobably be thinking about his legacy. Given...
The Facts, Ctd
The question is, how much will those factual findings matter on appeal?
If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, I don't think thefactual record will matter very much. I think that for three mainreasons. First, the Justices will know that this case presents adefining moment for their respective tenures on the Court. This will beone of the biggest decisions of their careers, and its importancetranscends a single trial before a single judge with a...
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