By a 5-4 majority, the Supreme Court upheld a disparate impact claim under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. Disparate impact -- being discrimination not by purpose or intent, bur rather impact (e.g. the numbers or counting the folks discriminated against) is a [...]
"Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them." King v. Burwell is in! Six-three decision with Roberts' writing the majority, and Anton Scalia dissenting. Take a look.
Listen hard. There is more than one controversial word in this interview with one of my favorite comedians (they're all political, so no point in pointing that out). And it's not just what the NYT published this morning about Obama using the "n" word. Obama has reached the last stage in his second term -- the [...]
Watch this fascinating interview in which Cornell University’s Arts & Sciences Dean Gretchen Ritter and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg discuss her role in breaking down gender lines, the two worst cases that she dissented in (i.e. Citizens United and Shelby v. Holder, and how she’s heralded for her dissents as Notorious RBG.
Click here to see a short, informative, elegantly written piece entitled "Cautionary Comments" about eugenics by Dr. Daniel Kevles, who is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. As Professor Kevles would say "the past is the present in the contemporary Public Square." The Asia/Pacific/American Institute at New York [...]
Remarks of President Barack Obama Address to the Nation September 10, 2014 Washington, D.C. As Prepared for Delivery* [e.g. liability waiver in case he misread or misspoke, giving anyone from GOP "right" to take his words out of context.]** **[Highlighted to annotate, though this reflects my view of consistency of Obama's M.O. as World Leader [...]
Tune in at 5 PM (EST) to KPFK's Access Unlimited for an hour discussion between with me and the hosts Henry Slucki and Jolie Mason on the Supreme Court's recent decisions on Obamacare, and particularly how these decisions impact persons with disabilities.
Another full disclosure early summer or June sting! Read the Full Text Drone Memo and try not to wince is all I can recommend.
Talk about a failing an exam! The polarized Supreme Court drew a clearer line of death. This time, however, the liberal faction wrestled Roberts’ faction down to the ground in a 5–4 decision indicating the artifice underlying who qualifies as stepping over this line. Justice Anthony Kennedy . . .But here’s the thing: Madmen and cognitively impaired men, no matter how much we’re looking at their brains or when we can later pickle their brains for our own exam rooms, are not the same thing (and don’t get me wrong, I’m not for killing anybody).
“Sufficient” is a funny word. We hear it so much after it goes through the washing-machine-spinning doublespeak machine. So let’s just say what the Obama administration and the cyber or secret international-communications industry mean: Enough. Or: “Enough, ENOUGH!” -- get off my back now, please . .
Since entering the White House, Barack Obama has been battered by criticism from both sides. In Out of Many, One: Obama and the Third American Political Tradition, Ruth O’Brien, a political science professor at The CUNY Graduate Center, explains how Obama’s leadership style, more statesman than politician, is partly to blame and argues that he represents the values of a lesser-known third tradition in American political thought that defies the usual left-right categorization.
