Archive for June, 2007
Posted in June 28th, 2007
Adam puts up another post that sums up the Supreme Court’s term and links to the TNR piece about Kennedy that demonstrates he’s not the moderate swing vote on the Court at all. The TNR article references Epstein et al. which found that Kennedy has not drifted at all ideologically and is one of the […]
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Posted in June 28th, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barack Obama today released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s diversity ruling. “Today’s Supreme Court ruling has placed a serious obstacle in the way of achieving the vision of America first outlined in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education, where we see racially integrated education as […]
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Posted in June 28th, 2007
Is well captured by Scott Lemiuex The opinion was predictably narrowed by Kennedy, who provided the swing vote but (exactly as Dahlia Lithwick predicted) holding out that a future program may theoretically take race into account. This probably won’t be terribly meaningful in practice (particularly since the federal courts are rapidly abandoning the desegregation orders […]
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Posted in June 28th, 2007
Indeed, the consequences of the approach the Court takes today are serious. Yesterday, the plans under review were lawful. Today, they are not. Yesterday, the citizens of this Nation could look for guidance to this Court’s unanimous pronouncements concerning desegregation. Today, they cannot. Yesterday, school boards had available to them a full range of means […]
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Posted in June 28th, 2007
Next time anyone tries to claim the conservative Supreme Court is not activist, you might point people to the decision that just undercut Brown v. Board of Education in two cases where the efforts were instituted by elected School Boards. Excerpts taken from Adam Bonin’s piece: From the Majority Opinion: Before Brown, schoolchildren were told […]
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Posted in June 26th, 2007
Not sure what the problem is, but Mozilla works fine. I’ll try and figure it out later.
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
From the Illinois Senate State Senator Dan Kotowski FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Senator Kotowski Issues Statement on Office Threats SPRINGFIELD, IL Illinois State Senator Dan Kotowski (D- Park Ridge) issued the following statement regarding the recent threats communicated to his legislative office: I was elected to serve as your voice in Springfield to improve our communities […]
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
Rich gave me permission to post a paragraph of his exclusive interview with Paul Froelich (but still go subscribe) The state’s newest Democrat said his dissatisfaction with the Bush administration also played a role in his decision. Froehlich claims to have been against the Iraq War since before it began, said he is horrified at […]
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
In Comments Sorry you folks decided not to read the press release or the post, instead saying we “attacked” Obama. Wrong. We urged him to reject the invitation, which he did, and we are now issuing a follow-up release congratulating him. This is known as movement politics, rather than partisan politics. The goal was never […]
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
sharedVideo(1038694004) I’m sure the above headline will be over at Illinois Review any minute.
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
Rich has a subscriber only post with details so, subscribe. I won’t break Rich’s subscriber only posts, but one particular comment I found heartening.
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
The Illinois State Rifle Association Several weeks ago, the ISRA was all atwitter after Chicago priest Michael Pfleger called for pro-gun legislators and a gun shop owner to be “snuffed out.” I seriously doubt that Pfleger wanted to actually kill a pro-gun legislator, but his remarks were irresponsible. Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George was right to […]
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
The Progressive States Network co-founded by David Sirota jumps on Obama to decline or reject an invitation to ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council. In PSN’s defense, ALEC had Obama on their frontpage (removed already) and it is an odious organization. The thing is the campaign confirmed it was not attending within minutes of having seen […]
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
Charles Franklin has up the most recent trend estimates for his Presidential Approval estimator and it’s at 29.1 percent. Wow. There’s some interesting patterns to the different estimators as well. The blue (less sensitive) has been tracking the red (more sensitive) for the recent downturn pretty faithfully. That’s not unusual and certainly doesn’t tell us […]
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Posted in June 22nd, 2007
Bush to Kermit Ruffins: I want to thank our Chef, Paul Prudhomme, from New Orleans, Louisiana — one of the great chefs in America. Thanks for coming, Paul. (Applause.) I thank Tony Snow and his bunch of, well, mediocre musicians — (laughter) — no, great musicians. Beats Workin, thanks for coming. (Applause.) Kermit, come up […]
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