The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned whether sex-based criteria allowing unwed mothers to transmit citizenship to their children more easily than unwed fathers constituted gender discrimination, according to Court House News. Unwed mothers who are U.S. citizens can transmit citizenship to their children by living in the United States for one year, while [...]
The Federal Government asked the US Supreme Court to back the Ninth Circuit panel ruling that permits Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to continue temporarily, according to CNN. The acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Kumar Katyal argued that the Supreme Court should reject a request by the Log Cabin Republicans to reinstate a federal judge’s injunction [...]
Well isn’t this nice? Courage Campaign has went through the trouble of creating a nifty voter guide for all you liberal and progressive voters out there so you won’t have to go through the trouble of researching candidates one by one. Not only that, via Credo, they’ve also created access to a mobile guide that [...]
Ya gotta see it to believe it. Big shout out to Jasmyne Cannick for this!
Yea we made note that Brown didn’t mention his stance in choosing not to defend Prop 8 at the black churches he visited over the weekend. We’re doing it simply because it’s important to make awareness of this. We don’t know if the members of the churches he spoke at other weekend were staunch supporters [...]
On Monday of this week Prop 8 opponents Olson and Boies filed briefs with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Copies of the briefs can be found at the end of this post. On Thursday a Federal Appeals Court announced that oral arguments [...]
We really thought this was some Onion post at first glance. It couldn’t possibly be real, we thought. But no, it’s real. And Mrs. Clarence Thomas is most def’ on drugs. Here’s what the New Yorker reported:
