Since last week upwards of 200 marriage licenses and counting have been issued to same-sex couples in New Mexico, where same-sex marriage has neither been explicitly legalized nor explicitly banned. The existing law there is gender neutral: “Marriage is contemplated by the law as a civil contract, for which the consent of the contracting parties, capable in law of contracting, is essential.” Read More
Where there is impeach Obama fever, there is someone trying to make a buck. Guess who?
One more point on the latest James O’Keefe shenanigans.
There’s a lot of backstory here, not least of which is that Jim Letten’s office prosecuted O’Keefe and his posse for their 2010 “prank” on Sen. Mary Landreiu’s office in which they gained access by posing as telephone repairmen.
But the main thing to keep in mind in gauging Letten’s reaction is that Letten probably couldn’t care less whether O’Keefe is operating as a conservative activist (the term of art Letten uses in the video is “political extremist nutjob”) or as the journalist speaking truth to power that he fancies himself to be. As a career prosecutor, Letten is indifferent to which of those boxes O’Keefe fits in.
In his mind, O’Keefe is a former criminal defendant who showed up at Letten’s home and talked to his spouse. That taps into the deepest, darkest fears of prosecutors. It’s in a different category than the usual O’Keefe on-camera gotcha and may explain in part why the man who took down Edwin Edwards is so livid in that video.
The former U.S. attorney in New Orleans, Jim Letten, who is now a dean at the Tulane Law School, absolutely loses it when confronted on campus by James O’Keefe and a camera crew.
Measles outbreak hits Texas megachurch whose pastor expressed skepticism about vaccines.
Secretary of State John Kerry to make statement on Syria situation at 2 p.m. ET. Watch.
The white supremacist prison gang known as 211 Crew is apparently still causing havoc in Colorado. After being linked to the killing of the state’s prison chief earlier this year, the gang has allegedly ordered a “hit” on a local judge, causing him to go into hiding.
Former U.S. Senate candidate arrested for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill his sheriff deputy uncle.
On the latest stop on President Obama’s summer bus tour, he heads to CNN to discuss all of the season’s big stories.