As you may know, this is the big week for marriage equality before the Supreme Court and we’re going to be covering it in great detail. TPM reporter Sahil Kapur will be in the Court to hear the oral arguments Tuesday and Wednesday and bring you the key details and whatever tells there seem to be as soon as we’re able. As we wait, though, here’s a profile of one of the two couple’s at the center of the Prop 8 case (itself one of the two cases to be decided): Berkeley California’s Kris Perry and Sandy Stier.
Ford decides ad depicting a smiling Silvio Berlusconi with three bound and gagged women in the trunk of his car wasn’t such a great idea.
We in America, rightly or wrongly, often assume we’re in the rearguard on issues like gay rights and marriage equality (at least in terms of federal legislation) — certainly vis a vis many European countries. Yet the reaction in this country has been relatively tepid in the face of the huge changes over the last couple years. By contrast, hundreds of thousands of opponents turned out yesterday in Paris to protest a new bill legalizing full equality in France and at the end of the rally it actually turned violent.
TPM Reader MR has more in our discussion of Zero Dark Thirty and torture …
Like other responders, I’m also a produced screenwriter. In resp to the various ZD30 comments:
1) IMO, Bigelow & Boal purposely played it down the middle and captured very well the public’s ambiguous attitude toward torture, and the fog surrounding its efficacy. The fact that serious people are having serious, good faith disagreements about B+B’s intent seems proof of that.
A new Gallup poll shows that 66% of respondents do not believe drone strikes should be used against suspected terrorists within the United States. And an even larger number, 79% of respondents, don’t believe strikes should be permitted in the United States against suspected terrorists who are US citizens. Read More
Here’s why Anthony Kennedy may be the key Justice in the upcoming marriage equality cases before the Supreme Court.
Looks like Ted Cruz may be the final holdout on immigration reform.
Some pretty amazing numbers from Pew on how Republicans view the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court.
Compare that to this chart based on an academic study of the right-ward shift of the court.