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Surpreme Court week
2013-06-27 17:45Interesting set of decisions. Some pretty bad:
Attack on the right to remain silent: you need to say a particular invocation, rather than just keeping your mouth shut.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/15787-supreme-court-bombshell-no-right-to-remain-silent
Attack on voting rights:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/to-understand-how-the-supreme-court-changed-voting-rights-today-just-look-at-this-map/
http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/06/supreme_court_purges_civil_rights_best_weapon_from_voting_rights_act.html
Texas took a whole two hours to seize the opportunity
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/25/2212281/two-hours-after-the-supreme-court-gutted-the-voting-rights-act-texas-ag-suppresses-minority-voters/
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/states_jump_at_pushing_voter_id_laws_after_scotus_ruling/
but OTOH the gay marriage decisions. Which produced some cute art
and some amusingly deranged frothing. I've seen calls for revolution, gloomy predictions of being rounded up into re-education camps, the end of procreation in America, everyone being sterilized and forced to reproduce via test tube, and wars on the Church. Just like have happened in the Netherlands since 2001, and Belgium since 2003, and Spain since 2005... or not.
Not to mention Scalia ranting about the hubris of striking down part of DOMA, a day after we learned he voted to strike down VRA. Inconsistency, your name is Scalia.
Good news for gays, though taken together I think the decisions may be a net loss for the USA. I also wonder whether it's better to have the Prop 8 decision, or to have California renounce Prop 8 in another referendum -- polls have 61% support for gay marriage now.
One amusing bit of history:
"The rulings came 10 years to the day after the court's Lawrence v. Texas decision that struck down state bans on gay sex. In his dissent at the time, Scalia predicted the ruling would lead to same-sex marriage."
I note "10 years to the day" is a bit odd when we remember leap years.
Attack on the right to remain silent: you need to say a particular invocation, rather than just keeping your mouth shut.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/15787-supreme-court-bombshell-no-right-to-remain-silent
Attack on voting rights:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/to-understand-how-the-supreme-court-changed-voting-rights-today-just-look-at-this-map/
http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/06/supreme_court_purges_civil_rights_best_weapon_from_voting_rights_act.html
Texas took a whole two hours to seize the opportunity
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/25/2212281/two-hours-after-the-supreme-court-gutted-the-voting-rights-act-texas-ag-suppresses-minority-voters/
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/states_jump_at_pushing_voter_id_laws_after_scotus_ruling/
but OTOH the gay marriage decisions. Which produced some cute art
and some amusingly deranged frothing. I've seen calls for revolution, gloomy predictions of being rounded up into re-education camps, the end of procreation in America, everyone being sterilized and forced to reproduce via test tube, and wars on the Church. Just like have happened in the Netherlands since 2001, and Belgium since 2003, and Spain since 2005... or not.
Not to mention Scalia ranting about the hubris of striking down part of DOMA, a day after we learned he voted to strike down VRA. Inconsistency, your name is Scalia.
Good news for gays, though taken together I think the decisions may be a net loss for the USA. I also wonder whether it's better to have the Prop 8 decision, or to have California renounce Prop 8 in another referendum -- polls have 61% support for gay marriage now.
One amusing bit of history:
"The rulings came 10 years to the day after the court's Lawrence v. Texas decision that struck down state bans on gay sex. In his dissent at the time, Scalia predicted the ruling would lead to same-sex marriage."
I note "10 years to the day" is a bit odd when we remember leap years.