We have the latest development in the national joke known as “Stand Your Ground” gun laws. The murderous jerk who killed a man in a Tampa theater yesterday because he wouldn’t stop texting may be planning to use a “stand your ground” defense.
US District Judge Terence Kern rules that Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriages violates the 14th Amendment.
Just look at the fight over unemployment insurance in the Senate.
North Carolina Senate candidate says food stamps “enslave” recipients.
Robin Marty on the Supreme Court rejecting Arizona’s 20-week abortion ban: “Yet, as nice as it is to celebrate a win – especially in light of the over 200 abortion restrictions passed in just the last three years – we also need to be aware that the Supreme Court’s decision isn’t that they wouldn’t strike down Roe over a 20 week ban. They just said that this isn’t the case that will prompt them to do it.”
Gov Christie says he had not had any contact with David Wildstein in a long time. “I have had no contact with David Wildstein in a long time, a long time, well before the election.” But now there are pictures of him and Wildstein and Bill Baroni appearing together and talking at a 9/11 commemoration, on the third day of the traffic debacle.
Ed Kilgore on the Christie scandal’s effect on the next round of presidential candidates: “So the ‘16 cupboard is suddenly looking a tad bare for the Republican Establishment.”