Biden Takes Ryan to School #Sippycup
Ryan Begs for Obama’s Stimulus: (12)
Watch the Vice Presidential Debate Live at 9PM EDT on CMP
If you don’t have access to television or you’re held up somewhere this evening, you can watch the only vice presidential debate tonight on CMP, either on your laptop or on your smartphone (CMP is now smartphone friendly). The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided…
Four Ways A Romney Supreme Court Would Change The Constitution Without Amending It
From ThinkProgress: Here are just four ways that Romney’s appointees would vote to effectively rewrite the Constitution if given the chance to do so: Eliminating The Right To An Abortion: Roe v. Wade is already on life support. The Court’s current majority weakened the longstanding rule ensuring that women may…
Roberts Court May Have Last Word in Long Debate Over Affirmative Action
My Constitutional Law Professor, Victor Goode, has authored an excellent piece on the upcoming affirmation action case: On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case many court watchers believe will lead to the functional end of affirmative action in higher education.…
Perils of Debating ‘Etch A Sketch’ Romney
From The Root: This bait and switch performance was signaled in March by Romney’s key strategist Eric Fehrnstrom when CNN asked whether his candidate’s hard-core conservative positions taken during the primary would hurt him with moderates in the campaign against Obama. “Well, I think you hit a reset button for…
Lehrer Loses Debate, Gwen Ifill Should’ve Been Sitting in Moderator Seat, Romney Wishes He Could’ve Gotten Tax Cut for Outsourcing Jobs, Ed Schultz Foams at the Mouth
This waste of skin did not even bother to ask the contenders about reproductive rights, the Supreme Court, mortgage foreclosures, or student loans. “Soft on Wall Street, Tough on Sesame Street” Romney was visibly agitated, un-presidential, and infantile in his demeanor — to say nothing of his incessant barrage of…
Watch the First Presidential Debate Live at 9PM EDT
If you don’t have access to television or you’re held up somewhere this evening, you can watch the debate tonight on CMP, either on your laptop or on your smartphone (CMP is now smartphone friendly) — we’re embedding Google’s YouTube feed. Tonight’s debate will be moderated by PBS’ Jim Lehrer.…
In Shell Case, Will Supreme Court’s View of Corporate Personhood Mean Liability for Crimes Abroad?
From Democracy Now: The Supreme Court opens its 2012-2013 term [yesterday] with a landmark case to decide whether survivors of human rights violations in foreign countries can bring lawsuits against corporations in U.S. courts. The case centers on a lawsuit that accuses the oil giant Shell’s parent company, Royal Dutch…