Justice Anthony Kennedy has for the moment halted gay marriages in Idaho.
Meanwhile, some confusion over what exactly has happened in South Carolina. A state judge has apparently begun accepting applications for same sex-marriage licenses in defiance of that state’s ban, but contrary to some reports has not actually issued any licenses yet. The clerk in South Carolina tells TPM there is a mandatory 24-hour waiting period for all marriage licenses. The presumption is licenses will issue once the 24 hours expires, unless further legal maneuvering puts a halt to it.
GOP far right girds loins, prepares for long twilight dog-whistling struggle against the scourge of gay marriage. Ed Kilgore has the details.
An American who has lived and worked in Liberia on why we should stop freaking out about ebola.
At traffic stop, Indiana state trooper asks motorist: Do you accept Jesus Christ as your savior?
Senate candidate says ISIL is plotting with Mexican drug cartels to attack Arkansas.
So 3,287 new Ferguson voter registrations just turned into 128.
Limbaugh proposes mass marriage of single women, via GOP dating service, as solution to gender gap.
My thoughts from last night on hearing about a college friend and rabbi who announced to his congregation that he is getting divorced because he’s gay.
With the election now a mere four weeks away, starting today we’re going to be reviewing the most noteworthy and important polls from the last 24 hours. It won’t be encyclopedic. For that, check out PollTracker. Here I’ll be looking at the key soundings that give us new insight or evidence into November’s outcome – especially the battle for the Senate, though we’ll be looking at all races. If once a day isn’t enough, remember, download PollTracker Mobile, the only mobile app that notifies you on your iPhone or Android device every time a new poll is released in a race you’re following.
For a variety of pretty good reasons, we’ve never really known the extent of the threat Barack Obama has faced as the nation’s first black president. But one of the silver linings to the Secret Service scandal of recent days may be that some of the people in a position to know are providing more details than we’ve previously had about how serious that threat has been and how it’s changed over time.
From Juliet Eilperin’s piece today in the Post, this stands out: