In striking down Utah’s same-sex marriage ban today, the Obama-appointed federal judge seemed almost to take pleasure in embracing Antonin Scalia throughout the opinion.
Not quite, as an appeal is possible. But a federal judge just struck down Utah’s gay marriage ban.
Late Update: I actually spoke too soon. Or perhaps not soon enough. Not only is marriage equality now in effect in Utah, at least for the moment, but at least one same sex couple has already gotten married in Salt Lake City.
President Obama’s year-end press conference about to begin. Watch.
Only the best corruption scandals involve a panicked Krispy Kreme meeting.
Obamacare expert on last night’s surprise news: “The administration has to hold the line here.”
Pope records video in tribute to the world’s ‘cartoneros’, people who sift through garbage to find recyclable and reusable goods to sell to support themselves.
At TPMCafe, Bridget Todd comes to the defense of the other DC: “I can’t help but think that maybe if the people who are so convinced that D.C. politics is one big douche-parade left the Hill every now and again, they might change their tunes.”
Dylan Scott has some new reporting today suggesting that key health care industry players are pessimistic about the prospects for Medicaid expansion in the states that initially opted out under Obamacare.
Here’s how one trade group official in a key state candidly put it:
From that Duck Dynasty interview that started all the fun …
Phil On Growing Up in Pre-Civil-Rights-Era Louisiana
“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field…. They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!… Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”
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