Less attention has been given, in discussions and analysis in the media, to the actual text of Alito’s opinion, especially the heinous cultural assumptions and curiously faulty historical analysis and reasoning
Last Monday the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear a case brought by Kim Davis, a former country clerk who, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in the Obergefell v. Hodges case legalizing same-sex marriage, who refused to issue certificates for such marriages because of her religious objections to…
American romantic poet, philosopher, and diplomat once referred to the U.S. Constitution, in an address to the Reform Club of New York in 1888, as “a machine that would go of itself.†More precisely, in using this phrase, he meant to diagnose a dangerous complacency infecting American political life, one born of the misguided belief…
One can find in the media many important analyses and accounts of the way the coronavirus pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the myriad inequities plaguing U.S. society. The most opulent among us can shelter in place and not have to worry about their next paycheck, about being evicted, about having enough food. They don’t have…
The Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations merited certain rights of personhood. The decision in this case became crystallized in the notorious phrase, “Corporations are people.†This year’s events insistently raise the question of which Americans enjoy the basic rights of personhood in America. How are we doing when it comes…
“Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!”
Sandoval opposes solar energy, gun safety laws, thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional and will uphold Vatican-5’s anti-women bloc for decades
The mainstream media must identify the real American government and Supreme Court “hostage takers;†the Koch brothers
It took only moments for Justice Scalia’s death to trigger the worst of conservative thinking on Twitter and Breitbart and elsewhere
Despite the Civil Rights Movement, racism is as rampant in America as it was when Dr. King marched and revealed his dream.
Scalia may have surpassed charlatans like David Barton in an attempt to “establish Christianity” as the nation’s state religion
It may come as a shock to Kim Davis that in America there is no higher authority than the Constitution, no matter that she believes
Conservatives have proffered every possible scenario to justify torture, including Supreme Court Justice Scalia invoking a fictional television counter-terrorism agent, Jack Bauer, torturing alleged terror suspects to stop a fictional attack on America.
It is astonishing, but the extremist Christian fundamentalists are basing their punitive power on the religious freedom guarantee in the First Amendment; with Supreme Court approval.
Not only did the prosecutor succeed in acquitting the murderer Darren Wilson, he convinced the grand jury to indict, try, and convict the unarmed murder victim Michael Brown.
Jody Hice’s new “Big Idea” is that state-sponsored religion, forbidden by the First Amendment, will put an end to government tyranny.
Koch and Vatican surrogate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a judicial sermon at Colorado Christian University and informed 400 faithful Christians that the separation of church and state “doesn’t mean the government cannot favor religion over non-religion.”
The Catholics on the High Court made a serious error in ruling that any government prayers were constitutional.
When whites decide racism is over … that’s “whitewishing”
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is now actively calling for disobeying the government, as during a recent speech he told students that if taxes get too high, they should revolt.
This abomination masquerading as legislation is precisely what the religious right and career criminals have dreamt of throughout their pathetic lives.
Besides wasting taxpayer time, money, and violating the First Amendment’s prohibition that Congress shall “make no law respecting the establishment of religion,” Ted Cruz’s bill is an extreme case of conservative hypocrisy.
Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia have again set themselves above ethics rules because they are, after all, Koch brother properties.
The level of political corruption in Republican and conservative ranks has gotten so blatant that they are finally being targeted for investigations.
Cuccinelli has long wanted to control what goes on in the privacy of Virginians’ bedrooms, and his latest ploy is a continuing effort to impose his Puritanical sensibilities on Virginia residents.
The rulings have absolutely no effect on any American who is not gay, and still, those unaffected ideologues are screaming the loudest they and their rights were eviscerated with the rulings.
One never imagined Scalia would openly declare his racism and disdain for the most basic of rights in an open and free democracy, but then again it is Antonin Scalia.
Whether bible-loving opponents of same-sex marriage like it or not, marriage is not a religious institution.
America’s worst nightmare is a Romney presidency bolstered by conservative Christians in Congress and a bible-based Supreme Court.
As the birth control mandate went into effect this week, religious freedom arguments continue to threaten it. Here’s why they’re wrong.
In an opinion that is sure to delight potential terrorists everywhere, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told Fox News Sunday that he believes all held held weapons including rocket launchers are protected under the Second Amendment.
Ted Nugent believes we’d be better off if the South had won the Civil War, completely ignoring that states rights was all about slavery
While the privileged-paranoia duopoly over American politics is nothing new to us, we find that Breitbart’s twisted career haunts, warps and dysfunctions our democracy to this day in a very direct and troubling manner.