Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War on Jun 29th, 2009
I can’t say I’m surprised, but I agree with Ginsburg’s dissent:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Media on Jun 28th, 2009
Outlaw linking! That will fix everything, I’m sure.
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Jun 27th, 2009
That John Roberts is just another in a long line of Republican closet cases. Just sayin’!
Posted in Blind Justice on Jun 25th, 2009
Ruled today that the school strip search of a teenage girl for having an ibuprofen tablet was illegal, 8-1.
The lone dissent? Clarence Thomas.
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Politics As Usual on Jun 19th, 2009
Because, as we know, elected officials in all their wisdom are so much more even-handed about this sort of thing!
WASHINGTON - Prisoners do not have a constitutional right to DNA testing after their conviction, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday, even though the technology provides an “unparalleled ability both to exonerate the wrongly convicted and [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Theocracy on Jun 9th, 2009
If I’m not mistaken (really, I’m not making this up!), these “monuments” were given out by Cecil B. DeMille to promote his movie, “The Ten Commandments”:
DENVER – A unanimous federal appeals court yesterday ruled that county commissioners in Haskell County, Oklahoma unconstitutionally sought to promote their personal religious beliefs by erecting a Ten Commandments monument [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Corporate Statism on Jun 8th, 2009
Now if only we could get the appointed judges to recuse themselves on similar conflicts:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that elected judges must step aside from cases when large campaign contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias.
By a 5-4 vote in a case from West Virginia, the court said that [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 5th, 2009
When I read John Grisham’s book “The Appeal,” I was depressed for weeks because I knew that while he was writing a fictional piece based on the facts of how judicial elections are manipulated by corporate interests, it was the same way in real life. To this day, I don’t think people understand the sophistication [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Life in the Big City on Jun 4th, 2009
I linked to this story the other day, and it gets worse:
THE 11-YEAR-OLD girl who was repeatedly raped in Kensington earlier this week was well enough yesterday to take her first step on what is likely to be a long road to recovery.
The youngster was released from St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and was “trying [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Jun 3rd, 2009
Guess what? The FBI and the city of Wichita refused to do anything about the abortion protesters at Dr. Tiller’s clinic:
DR. SUSAN ROBINSON: Good morning, Amy.
Let me start by saying I’m speaking for myself; I’m not speaking for the clinic. I’m just—I’m speaking as an individual abortion provider.
But in general, amongst people who do clinic [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Life in the Big City on Jun 3rd, 2009
I’m so torn over things like this. We absolutely can’t tolerate vigilanteism - but man, do I understand why they did it.
My gut reaction was, “I hope to God they did this to the right guy.” But that’s wrong, too. You can’t let mobs render verdicts - and getting the wrong person is only [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual on May 26th, 2009
You will be hearing many out-of-context quotes from this interview with Sonia Sotomayor in the wingnut media, so read it now and save yourself the effort later:
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual on May 26th, 2009
Now watch the wingnut fun begin! Scotomayor, a child of the Bronx, has already been the focus of attacks from the librul media, so we can only speculate as to how much worse the right-wing assaults will be. She’ll be seen as slightly to the left of Abbie Hoffman by the time they’re done with [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Terra Terra Terra!, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Regime on May 25th, 2009
Talk about a terror plot! You got your faux jihad, you got your inadequate health insurance (nothing single payer wouldn’t fix!) and you got an FBI informant who supplied a motive. Now, I wonder how they thought all of this would play in court? I mean, we were planning to try these people, yes?
“My [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual, The Regime on May 23rd, 2009
Glenn Greenwald:
During the Bush years, it was common for Democrats to try to convince conservatives to oppose Bush’s executive power expansions by asking them: “Do you really want these powers to be exercised by Hillary Clinton or some liberal President?”
Following that logic, for any Democrat/progressive/liberal/Obama supporter who wants to defend Obama’s proposal of “preventive detention,” [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra! on May 23rd, 2009
The case wouldn’t be prosecuted.
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, War Crimes on May 22nd, 2009
Shorter Will Bunch:
Cheney’s blather isn’t about policy. It’s about staying out of jail.
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on May 12th, 2009
Would it be great if this was finally over? Norm “Sore Loser” Coleman continues to do the dirty work for the national Republican party. See, when Republicans steal an election and Democrats protest, we’re cry babies. And when Democrats win an election, Republicans continue insist the results are illegitimate.
Do you ever get the feeling [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual on May 11th, 2009
Here’s some good news for a Monday morning:
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top antitrust official this week plans to restore an aggressive enforcement policy against corporations that use their market dominance to elbow out competitors or to keep them from gaining market share.
The new enforcement policy would reverse the Bush administration’s approach, which strongly favored defendants [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on May 6th, 2009
This is kind of interesting, isn’t it? They convicted two of his associates - but not him. I’ll bet you Weldon runs again if Sestak decides to go for the Senate:
Federal investigators were running wiretaps for months at a time in 2006 on then-U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon’s chief of staff and other members of his [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on May 2nd, 2009
Someone in comments pointed out this 2006 story involving rumored SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor and a pivotal class action suit that prevented any settlement against Wall Street banks. Now, I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know if there really was a good reason to dismiss this case. But does it sound even remotely like [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual on May 1st, 2009
And yes, he’s a white male: Tom Geoghegan, who recently ran unsuccessfully to replace Rahm Emanuel. A provocative thinker and a liberal visionary who could galvanize the court. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Read about him here, here, here and here.
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual on Apr 30th, 2009
Damn. I go out for one night and all of a sudden, we have an open seat for the Supreme Court?
Now I understand why they cut a deal with Specter.
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Apr 29th, 2009
In some countries, they apparently take this sort of thing seriously:
In a ruling in Madrid today, Judge Baltasar Garzón has announced that an inquiry into the Bush administration’s torture policy makers now will proceed into a formal criminal investigation. The ruling came as a jolt following the recommendation of Spanish Attorney General Cándido Conde-Pumpido against [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Apr 25th, 2009
Since it’s Glenn, you should of course go read the whole thing. But this sums up so much:
The inability of so many people (both Republicans and Obama-loyal Democrats) to view the need for prosecutions independent of political considerations is a potent sign of how sick our political culture has become. The need for criminal [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, The Regime, The Shadow Knows on Apr 24th, 2009
[FYI: The cop who did this to a woman held on suspicion of drunk driving was fired. Remember, the closer the Taser is shot to your heart, the greater the chance of death.]
Imagine that. You don’t suppose this has anything to do with the number of people (more than 400 so far) dropping dead after [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Apr 22nd, 2009
This kind of pressure is good. Hope it works!
Less than a month after the Justice Department asked a judge to drop the case against former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska because of prosecutorial misconduct, 75 former state attorneys general from both parties have urged Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to conduct a similar investigation [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 17th, 2009
He couldn’t find anyone to nominate for a federal judgeship who didn’t sign off on torture?
UPDATE: This isn’t an Obama nominee. My bad. But a lifetime tenure on the federal bench? This amoral tool needs to be impeached.
Posted in Blind Justice, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual, War Crimes on Apr 17th, 2009
Jonathan Turley:
To his credit, President Barack Obama has rejected efforts at the CIA and National Security Council to prevent the disclosure of memos detailing torture techniques. However, the statement below appears to lay the groundwork for a decision to block any investigation into war crimes. While insisting at we are a “nation of laws,” Obama [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, The Shadow Knows, War Crimes on Apr 16th, 2009
Link:
The Obama administration on Thursday released controversial memos outlining the legal rationale for interrogation techniques the Central Intelligence Agency used against terror suspects apprehended overseas, and vowed not to prosecute those that carried out what the administration described as “torture.”
“It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct [...]
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