Weekend Observations
It’s the Saturday before election day. Have you turned your ballot it? Please, please, please, get out and vote and vote blue. And to that […]
Neal Kelley
The Trial of John Yoo
I have just returned from a debate on presidential power at Chapman University Law School. In retrospect, the event should more properly have been called […]
Iowa’s Same Sex Marriage Decision: What it Says and What it Means
In 1998, the Iowa legislature, capitulating to a well-funded national campaign against gay marriage, amended the state’s marriage statute to define marriage as a union […]
Prop 8: What’s Really at Stake for the California Supreme Court
The primary legal issue at tomorrow’s hearing before the California Supreme Court on the same sex marriage Prop 8 case is the narrow and extremely arcane question whether Prop 8 is an amendment to the state constitution or a revision of the state constitution. But appellate cases – and especially high profile and controversial appellate cases — are rarely decided on such narrow and arcane questions of law, even though lawyers and judges must pretend that they are. What’s really at stake in the Prop 8 case – and what will probably be the real deciding factor in the California Supreme Court’s decision – is the power and prestige of the California Supreme Court itself.
Tell Senators Boxer & Feinstein to Protect & Defend Our Constitutional Rights!
This just in from DFA! Check out this very important action alert. Now that our Fourth Amendment privacy rights are on the line, now’s the […]
CA-47: Thank Loretta Sanchez for Standing up for Our Constitution
OK, I’m sure I’m not the only one who was deeply disappointed by the recent vote to “reform” FISA by deforming our Constitutional rights. This […]