Republican Congressional Candidate Promises To Impeach Obama Over New...
Allen Quist, Republican candidate in Minnesota's 1st congressional district A Republican congressional candidate in a competitive district is promising to try to impeach President Obama because of his...
View ArticleAllen West Inadvertently Claims George Washington Did Not Understand The...
At a rally in Florida yesterday, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) thought he found the perfect way to mock the Supreme Court’s finding that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate — which requires...
View ArticleSen. Rand Paul Compares SCOTUS Decision Upholding Obamacare To Pro-Slavery...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is not known for his measured understanding of the Constitution. He once suggested that Medicare and Social Security violate the Constitution , and he opposes the federal ban on...
View ArticleOops: Paul Ryan Forgets When New Presidents Are Sworn In
GOP Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan wants to phase out Medicare , slash Medicaid , cut education , increase taxes on the middle class and use this money to pay for tax cuts for the very rich ....
View ArticleSix Republicans Who Think Voters Should Not Be Able To Choose Their Own Senators
'Seventeenther' Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) Late last week, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who is currently campaigning for the U.S.
View ArticleFourth GOP Senate Candidate Says Senate Elections Should Be Unconstituitonal
On Monday, ThinkProgress reported that three current Republican U.S. Senate candidates want to change the Constitution to make their own race for senate unconstitutional . As it turns out, the number...
View ArticleUniversity of Colorado Moves Gun-Packing Students Off Campus
The University of Colorado banned all firearms from its campus in 1994. Last March, however, the state Supreme Court overturned that policy , saying it violated the Colorado law that allows gun-owners...
View ArticleAutopsy Rules Chavis Carter’s Death A Suicide
The state crime lab released the autopsy report from the death of 21-year-old Chavis Carter , who was shot in the head while handcuffed in a patrol car July 28th.
View ArticleFederal Court Strikes Down Key Provisions Of Alabama’s Immigration Law
A federal appeals court struck down key sections of Alabama’s immigration law in a ruling released today, including a provision mandating that school officials check the immigration status of newly...
View ArticleTodd Akin Isn’t The Only Tea Party Senate Candidate Who Thinks Medicare Is...
Rep. Todd “ Legitimate Rape ” Akin (R-MO) does not just have an unusually weak understanding of human biology, he also has a similar inability to understand the Constitution
View ArticleDOJ Approves Virginia Voter ID Law
The Department of Justice precleared Virginia’s new voter ID law under the Voting Rights Act , a decision that effectively states that the law will not disproportionately impact minority voters....
View ArticleGOP Attorneys General: Voting Rights Act Should Be Struck Down To Boost Laws...
The Republican attorneys general of Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, North Dakota and Texas filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court arguing that a key provision of the Voting Rights Act...
View ArticleGOP Platform Calls For Prosecutors To ‘Vigorously’ Prosecute Porn
Republicans are said to be the party of deregulation, but their platform this year aims to seriously regulate the pornography industry through strict enforcement of laws against porn or other...
View ArticleGOP Platform Declares Medicaid Unconstitutional
Almost immediately after President Obama took office, many Republican politicians seized upon a distorted vision of the Constitution’s Tenth Amendment that would leave America nearly incapable of...
View ArticlePoll: Voters More Interested In Severely Conservative GOP Platform Than...
From left, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) with Rep.
View ArticleHow Not To Respond To The GOP’s Far Right Vision Of The Constitution
Last week, the Republican Party released a party platform which treats the Constitution as if it were a manifesto composed by Paul Ryan himself . The GOP platform would declare Medicaid...
View ArticleAfter Two Court Orders, Louisiana May Finally Get Its First Black Chief Justice
A federal district judge rejected this weekend a racially charged challenge to a Louisiana Supreme Court justice’s seniority that has threatened Justice Bernette Johnson’s path to becoming the court’s...
View ArticleRomney Funder Miracle Gro Fined $12.5 Million For Violating Pesticide Laws
Scotts Miracle-Gro, the company best known for its eponymous fertilizer, has been ordered to pay $12.5 million in civil and criminal fines for violating the Environmental Protection Agency’s pesticide...
View ArticleThree GOP Attorneys General Sue To Protect Bank Bailouts
The Wall Street bailouts happened in no small part because the big investment banks had America over a barrel in 2008 .
View ArticleHow The Roberts Court Could Declare War On International Treaties
Republican Superlawyer Paul Clement The Roberts Court does not much care for America’s obligations to other nations.
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