Unshackled from the tyranny of voting rights law, states around the South are speeding ahead to push through vote suppression “Voter ID” laws. Here’s a quick rundown of which states are already off and running.
Final Polltracker Average of Mass Senate race: Markey +9.6. Actual result: Markey +10.
And other morsels from Antonin Scalia’s dissent in the DOMA case.
President calls Prop 8 plaintiffs on cell phone during live MSNBC interview. Watch.
One threat haunting the immigration reform legislative debate was that the bipartisan coalition supporting comprehensive immigration reform would come apart over providing equal rights to same-sex married couples in the context of US immigration law. The DOMA decision largely ends that debate since the federal government is no longer able to discriminate between opposite sex and same sex couples married in US states where it is legal.
That company that had the Obama and “the Ex” shooting range manequins introduces new targets based on a ‘gun control lobbyist’ and Rev. Al Sharpton.
Only 20 or so minutes left. But if you care to take a stab at guessing what SCOTUS has in store for marriage equality today, we’ve opened a prediction thread at TPMPrime.
Republicans across the Old Confederacy prep voter ID bills and other voting restrictions in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling.