Hard to believe, but it’s been nearly a year since Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was fully undone.
In September in New York, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen will headline an event marking the policy’s repeal.
I can’t say I’d put more than a dime on it. But ever since Justice Scalia’s outburst yesterday, I’ve sort of wondered about this and a number of readers have asked too. Is that the big tell? TPM Reader RG wonders too …
Have nothing to go on with this, but Scalia’s over-the-top dissent on Arizona — and it’s pointed, personal attack against the president gave me a weird idea. Note that Roberts was in the majority on Arizona — even though Kennedy wrote the opinion. If he wanted to, he could have sided with the minority — leaving a tie and the whole thing up in the air. He didn’t — thus allowing a mixed bag that gave the administration a slender win.
EXCLUSIVE: Claire McCaskill tells TPM she’s skipping the Democratic convention.
It went largely unremarked upon yesterday, but the Supreme Court’s decision in the Arizona immigration case pulled the rug out from under Republicans hoping to block Obama’s recent decision not to deport illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) suggests possible impeachment of President Obama for refusal to enforce immigration laws.
Claire McCaskill is not the only prominent Democrat skipping out on the party’s convention in Charlotte. Here are the others.