Putin says gay people at the Olympics must leave the children alone.
Meet ‘The Alligator’, Chris Chritie’s new BridgeGate scandal lawyer.
And yes, he seems to like being called ‘The Alligator.”
This actually really surprises me. Ratings for the premier of this season’s Duck Dynasty were actually down dramatically from last year. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that going on a racist, homophobic rant ain’t great for ratings. (Actually, who knows?) But I’m surprised just the brouhaha itself didn’t juice ratings. I’ve never watched the show. But I could have seen myself tuning in just to see what these dudes were about. Apparently not.
State judge in Pennsylvania rules that the state’s controversial voter ID law is unconstitutional.
Over the last two to three years, everyone has come to see that the tide has turned in favor of marriage equality: It’s not a matter of if, but when, same sex marriage rights become the law of the land nationwide. Last month I noted that court cases in Utah and Ohio signaled that that ‘when’ may be coming much sooner than we’ve imagined, with the Supreme Court likely to be pressed to accept and act on the logic of the decision in US v Windsor and rule that states cannot discriminate against same sex couples in marriage rights.
Now we have another data point: Even in Utah, arguably the most conservative state in the union, the public is evenly divided on whether lesbians and gays should be allowed to marry.
Senior International Olympic Committee officials criticizes US for sending “four lesbians” to Sochi.
More from Sahil Kapur on the newly proposed fix to the Voting Rights Act that was unveiled today … and how it lets voter ID laws off easy.