Jon Stewart and NYC Rep. Anthony Weiner used to be roomies, so Weiner’s House floor rant was no surprise to Stewart. Watch.
After seeming to backtrack from his call for hearings on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell renewed his call for hearings this morning at a breakfast with reporters.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is leading a new effort to whip up support for appointing Elizabeth Warren to head up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
At TPMmuckraker we’ve been chronicling the scandals, legal woes and general problems with the DOJ of Rep. Don Young (R-AK) since at least 2007 and I think actually back to 2006 — the year Muckraker went online. But Young’s press secretary, Meredith Kenny, just told the Anchorage Daily News that the DOJ this morning contacted Young’s office and told him the investigation into him is over and no charges will be filed.
It looks like Google its cutting its own deal to end Net Neutrality.
After national spokesman Mark Williams resigned over racist blog posts, the Tea Party Express is turning over a new leaf with a National Black Conservatives Rally at the National Press Club. Our resident Tea Party-meister Evan McMorris-Santoro was there and filed this report.
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We’re still making our way through the decision, but the overall tone isn’t a compromising or equivocal one. Here’s a sampling:
Because slaves were considered property of others at the time, they lacked the legal capacity to consent and were thus unable to marry. Â After emancipation, former slaves viewed their ability to marry as one of the most important new rights they had gained.
A federal judge in California has declared the state’s Proposition 8, outlawing same-sex marriage, unconstitutional.
Speaker Pelosi calling Congress back into session for key jobs bill vote.