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Proposition 8 Ruling is a Catch 88
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailySee what I did there? It's like a Catch 22, only 4 times as bad. Worse, really, but 88 went well with the rest of the headline. In rendering its decision to uphold Proposition 8, the California Supreme Court ignored not only their own precedent but their reason for existing. Upon advice of counsel, I decided to bite the bullet and try to wade through the 136-page Prop 8 decision to find out where the whole thing went wrong. After doing so, I can only conclude than that the court wrote their decision to fit a pre-ordained outcome. That outcome was best described by Below the Beltway's Doug ...
Did Proposition 8 Court Read Right-Wing Blogs?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyA slew of conservative blogs have been attacking Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the US Supreme Court, for a statement that she made in 2005:Judicial Confirmation Network, a conservative group that focuses on judicial nominees, made reference to the quote in a statement this morning condemning Sotomayor's nomination, alleging that Sotomayor "thinks that judges should dictate policy." Conservative bloggers have focused on it as well: The Weekly Standard, Townhall.com, and NewsBusters have all featured posts on the comment this morning.Ed Rawls at Cubic Politics notices a striking ...
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