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Georgia to execute mentally handicapped man
Barring a last minute intervention by the US Supreme Court, a mentally handicapped man will be executed Monday in Georgia, despite protests from around the world — and from the victim’s family. Warren Hill, a 52-year-old African American, has spent the last 21 years on death row for killing a…
83-year-old lesbian asks Supreme Court to review Defense of Marriage Act
Attorneys representing an 83-year-old lesbian woman on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edith “Edie” Windsor challenged the law after the federal government failed to recognize her marriage to her partner Thea Spyer, after Spyer’s death in 2009. Windsor…
Georgia aims to defy Supreme Court by executing mentally disabled prisoner
A death row prisoner in Georgia who has been officially deemed by the courts to be “mentally retarded” is scheduled to be executed next week despite a supreme court ruling that bans the death sentence for people with learning difficulties. The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles was due…
Maddow: Pro-lifers hope partial abortion bans will overturn Roe v. Wade
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday night explained that some pro-life activists believe laws that criminalize virtually all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy are their best chance of overturning Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court’s 1973′s ruling in Roe v. Wade upheld a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy…
Romney town hall crowd applauds death penalty
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday asserted that the death penalty prevented “the most heinous crimes.” During a town hall event in Grand Junction, Colorado, a man who identified himself a “the local D.A.” asked Romney to respond to a recent Supreme Court ruling that banned mandatory life…
Bill Moyers asks activists: Is Labor a lost cause?
Last week, as Americans focused on the Supreme Court’s rulings on the Affordable Care Act and Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law, a “disturbing” decision got lost in the shuffle. Knox v. Service Employees International Union [SEIU], Local 1000 restricts the financial power of organized labor by restricting union dues used for…
Justice Department asks Supreme Court to take on Defense of Marriage Act
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear appeals of lower court rulings striking down a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act, according to the Associated Press. The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 and Section 3 of the law, which…
What good is Twitter? How a telltale tic is twitching us into twits
It’s now thought that the reason CNN and Fox mistakenly reported, at first, that the ACA mandate had been struck down by the Supreme Court… was simply because some chucklehead pseudo-reporter in the room TWEETED the wrong information. (CNN et al may deny this—I don’t believe them, as the indications…
Montana’s Governor Sweitzer blasts Supreme Court for overturning Corrupt Practices Act
In an uproarious appearance Sunday on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer had nothing good to say about the Supreme Court decision that overturned his state’s hundred year old Corrupt Practices Act. The act had been upheld by the Montana courts on the grounds that the U.S.…
Health care ruling restores faith in Supreme Court
With Chief Justice John Roberts’ decisive swing vote to uphold “Obamacare,” the conservative-majority US Supreme Court has seen its reputation as an independent final arbiter restored, experts say. Roberts silenced critics who believed that the court would vote along partisan political lines and strike down President Barack Obama’s signature domestic…
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