by branden | May 2, 2011 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, LGBTQ Rights
After the revelation by Proposition 8 judge Vaughn Walker that he is gay and in a long-term same-sex relationship, Prop. 8 supporters are trying to have his landmark ruling striking down the California referendum vacated on the grounds that he should have recused...
by branden | Apr 29, 2011 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation
Writing in the New Republic, Harvard Professor Randall Kennedy suggests that Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer should consider retirement in the interest of the long-term survival of the more progressive wing of the court. Kennedy calls...
by branden | Apr 16, 2011 | Amicus, Education & Youth
While each new day brings news of Arizona pursuing a new right-wing anti-immigrant policy, or other states following Arizona’s lead, Maryland is making news by moving the other way. The Maryland legislature voted this week to guarantee in-state tuition to...
by branden | Apr 14, 2011 | Amicus, LGBTQ Rights
While he anxiously awaits word whether his challenge to the Affordable Care Act will be accepted by the Supreme Court, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is keeping himself busy by backing out of progressive reforms initiated by the previous administration....
by branden | Apr 13, 2011 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Human Rights
The New York Times reports on Wednesday that the shortage of sodium thiopental, covered previously by Amicus, is causing corrections officials in states across the country to take desperate, and possibly illegal, measures to obtain the supplies of the drug needed to...