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Withers: Gallagher answers three questions
Published on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by James Withers After U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker’s Proposition 8 decision, Maggie Gallagher was on news shows taking the judge’s ruling to task. Sent her media representative an email, requesting an interview. Wasn’t expecting much, but the chairperson of the National Organization for Marriage agreed to answer three questions via email. Here are her ... Read More » -
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Senate to confirm Kagan for the Supreme Court
Published on Thursday, August 5, 2010 by logointern1 Washington– Her confirmation assured, Elena Kagan is on the brink of becoming the fourth woman ever to serve as a Supreme Court justice. The Senate is set Thursday to confirm President Barack Obama’s nominee, whose addition to the court will mark the first time three female justices have served concurrently. Nearly all Democrats, the Senate’s two... Read More » -
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GOP Sen. Lugar to support Kagan for Supreme C...
Published on Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Jennifer Vanasco (Washington) Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, breaking with the GOP on an election-year Supreme Court nomination, on Wednesday became the second in his party to announce he would vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a justice. The Indiana Republican’s position doesn’t alter the positive outlook for Kagan, who was already on track to be confirmed early next month. ... Read More » -
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Culhane: DOMA decision is a ruling for equali...
Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Jennifer Vanasco What are we to make of the two DOMA decisions handed down by federal district court Judge Joseph Tauro late last week? The basic legal lesson from these decisions and, I’m willing to bet, the upcoming Prop 8 decision, is this: It really is all about equality, even though the various commentaries and reactions to the ruling focused on a number of other legal issu... Read More » -
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Culhane: Should we hate civil unions, or love...
Published on Thursday, July 8, 2010 by Jennifer Vanasco I ask this question shortly after the announcement by Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle that she had decided to veto the civil union bill that was passed by the legislature in late April. With her body blocking the state seal – with its (loosely translated) motto of “The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness” and its depiction of the Goddess of Liberty –... Read More » -
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Monday Watercooler: Kagan gets no love from P...
Published on Monday, July 5, 2010 by James Withers How did you spend your Fourth? What did you do yesterday? Watch Rafael Nadal (what a tasty specimen) win another Wimbledon championship? Go gaga over some fireworks? Attend a barbecue? Dutifully go over your Revolutionary War history? I reread Frederick Douglass’ The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, a much needed corrective for all the self congratulati... Read More » -
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Culhane: Reconciling religious freedom and an...
Published on Thursday, July 1, 2010 by logointern1 Here’s a little thought experiment: Imagine that you’re a member of a gay student group in college. You’ve just come out – well, you’re in the process of coming out, anyway – and this is your one safe, comfortable space. One day, there are two new members in the group: Religious fundamentalists who have joined the group in a (doomed) effort to get the memb... Read More » -
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Withers: Thurgood Marshall’s confirmation h...
Published on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by James Withers Who knew Thurgood Marshall had to be reconfirmed for the Supreme Court? The associate justice, who headed the team that won Brown v. Board of Education, has been under scrutiny in Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing. Solicitor General Kagan clerked for Marshall and has spoken in glowing terms of the man.To hear the Republicans tell it, the man is a liberal Satan... Read More » -
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Republicans bring up Kagan’s record on mili...
Published on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by logointern2 (Washington) Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on Tuesday defended her policy of barring military recruiters from the Harvard Law School career counseling office, saying the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violated its anti-discrimination policy. “We were trying to make sure that military recruiters had full and complete access to our stud... Read More » -
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Culhane: Answering your questions about DOMA,...
Published on Thursday, June 24, 2010 by Jennifer Vanasco While there are always plenty of timely legal issues of relevance to the LGBT community, right now it feels like we’re in a bit of a holding pattern as to a few of the biggest. Within the next few days, a Supreme Court case and the verdict in the Philadelphia Boy Scouts trial should tell us a great deal about the boundary between non-discrimination laws and polic... Read More »