At a now-defunct gay conversion therapy clinic in New Jersey patients were encouraged to beat a pillow with a tennis rack and curse their mothers (symbolized by the pillow) to exorcise their gayness. This information comes from a suit filed by former patients.
Six million people risk losing their health care subsidies, yet @POTUS continues to deny that Obamacare is bad for the American people.
— Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) June 8, 2015
This is really for the ages. Louisiana Republicans are begging Grover Norquist to let them out of their ‘no new tax pledge’ to get the state out of its fiscal mess.
With the clock ticking down to hearing how the Supreme Court comes down on King v Burwell, the Obamacare subsidies case, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the overriding salient fact about the case. This is not in any real sense a question of law or constitutionality that made its way up through the courts in any standard way – not even in the sense that activists often look for ‘test cases’ to advance some particular argument or test a purported right. King v Burwell is a construction of the Republican party indistinguishable in any meaningful sense from the dozens of times congressional Republicans have voted to repeal Obamacare or otherwise torpedo the law since it was passed in 2010.
Former cop Seth Stoughton, now an academic expert on policing, watches the McKinney pool video for TPM and what he sees isn’t all bad.
It’s a new week and Chris Christie has a new legal headache: David Wildstein, the guy at the center of Bridgegate living under the bus where Christie and Co threw him, is now accusing the governor of the crime of revealing confidential grand jury testimony.
The linked article also contains new bonus patronage sleaze and lying in public comments.
ICYMI: Remember, the Obamacare/subsidies case (King v Burwell) before the Supreme Court is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican Party.
I suspect we’ll have more on this soon. But there’s some legal jousting which went on today between the lawyer for indicted Bridgegate figure Bridget Kelly and Randy Mastro, the power lawyer from Gibson Dunn who was hired by Gov. Christie’s office to handle the Bridgegate matter for the Governor and prepare the report that exonerated him.