Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, allegedly put in a chokehold by fellow Justice David Prosser, reportedly advised him to get anger management therapy after the incident.
Big news in the legal battles over Obama’s healthcare reform law. A federal appeals court in Cincinnati has upheld a key provision of the law as constitutional – ruling in a 2-1 decision that its requirement that most Americans carry insurance does not violate the Constitution’s Commerce Clause.
Per my post below, President Obama ducked the gay marriage question at today’s press conference: “I’m not going to make news on that today — good try though.”
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): Privacy rules might “break the internet.”
Reliably whacked World Net Daily sues Esquire over birther parody.
Stephen Colbert’s FEC gag has reformers actually worried that he’s helping the FEC set bad precedent.
The more legal and tax experts we talk to, the more red flags there appear to be with Sen. Ron Johnson’s $10 million payday from one of his companies right after Election Day. Susan Crabtree has the latest on the Wisconsin Republican’s financial dealings.
The somnambulant press corps has been aroused from its summer torpor by the kind of controversy that sends DC into a tizzy: Mark Halperin called President Obama a “dick” on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today.
MSNBC has apologized and suspended Halperin. Halperin has apologized and agreed that he should be suspended.
It’s given one half of DC the chance to acknowledge that Halperin himself is a dick. The other half is wringing its hands over the level of our “discourse.”
Rest assured that within a week we can all go back to being dicks again.