This happened…

Flying in the face of a 1969 Supreme Court decision that says “Uh…no,” president-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted this out, so I have a few questions for him: What happens if someone burns a cross? Is that protected speech? No? Please advise.  

Just a bit more on the sitting quarterback

In other Supreme Court news…

…the Court handed down a 6-2 decision in Voisine et al v. U.S., that reckless domestic assaults can be considered misdemeanors that restrict gun ownership. (If you’ll remember, this is the case in which Associate Justice Clarence Thomas broke his 10-year silence on the bench to ask a question. He, along with unlikely ally Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, …

Sorry-not-sorry, Texas

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Texas should join this century. The Court said, in a 5-3 vote in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, that the state of Texas had placed an “undue burden” on women who seek an abortion in that state. The state did so by requiring doctors who perform …

So here’s Candidate Drumpf’s list of Supreme Court justice possiblities

They’re white. Every last one of them. Are you surprised? Evidently, Trump’s bypassed the Grade-A conservative-types. Here’s a little more about Judge Raymond Gruender, of Missouri. Here’s a little bit on one of his other choices, William Pryor, who would jail LGBT people for having sex in their homes, according to this.  

Supreme Court decides not to decide on birth control

On Monday, the Supreme Court sent back to the lower courts seven cases that that august body had consolidated into one big ol’ hairy birth control case. This says the court punted on the case, brought by various religious groups who fear the birth control portion of the American Care Act (Obamacare) violates their religious freedom. …

Supreme Court tells McDonald’s to stop whining

Seattle, Wash., raised its minimum wage to $15, and some businesses squawked all the way to the Supreme Court, which on Monday, said no. Or, as it says here, the Supreme Court told McDonald’s to “shut it’s Mac-hole.”  

SCOTUS dudes may not get it.

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments about a portion of Obamacare’s birth control mandate. (From what I can tell, the question revolved around whether the Little Sisters of the Poor are violating their religious beliefs by not providing coverage for contraceptives, or something like that). It became obvious from their questions that some of the black-robed dudes just didn’t get …

Do your job, Senate

A new survey says that 62 percent says that Pres. Obama’s Supreme Court candidate deserves a hearing. According to a new Monmouth University Poll: Specifically, two-thirds say that Pres. Obama’s recent nomination deserves a hearing and 3-in-4 Americans think Senate Republicans are playing politics by refusing to consider to it. Turns out the chief justice …

For this, he breaks his silence?

The news is all over that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas broke his 10-year silence (a record!) during yesterday’s oral arguments in Voisine v. United States. And the reason he spoke up? To question the gun ban that exists for domestic abusers. During a five-minute exchange with Ilana Eisenstein, the lawyer for the government, the conversation focused: largely on the …